Incorporating Exercise Into Eating Disorder Recovery

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Lady doing compulsive exercise Contributed by Canopy Cove There are many reasons to engage in physical activity. In the early days of the human race, “exercise” was purely for methods of survival, roaming the land and running, jumping, or attacking for food or as a means of protection. The stakes are not nearly as high today, but incorporating exercise into eating [...]
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Support with Exercise in Recovery

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Lady Exercising and thinking about Exercise in Eating Disorder recovery Contributor: Camille Williams, MA, NCC, LCPC, Eating Disorder Program Coordinator at Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center Just as our society values and praises thinness, the same holds true for exercise. It seems like more is always better and recent obsessions with tracking steps and apps used to calculate calories burned continue to fuel this belief. [...]
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Drunkorexia: Educating Our College Students About This Issue

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Women College students battling drunkorexia All About Drunkorexia Drunkorexia is a common issue among college students, especially within the United States. This is a non-medical term, which occurs when a person combines alcohol with obsessive diet behaviors [1]. These behaviors include food restriction, excessive exercise, and/or binging and purging ultimately to increase the effects of alcohol. The motive is, someone [...]
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Charlotte Sandy’s Eating Disorder Recovery & How She Reclaimed Her Life

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Woman struggling with Borderline Personality Disorder and an eating disorder Eating Disorder Hope Founder Jacquelyn Ekern interviews social worker and blogger Charlotte Sandy in this 3-part series about her experience with, and recovery from, her eating disorder. Jacquelyn: Charlotte, can you please tell us a little bit about your background and, in your opinion, what contributed to the development of your eating disorder? Charlotte: Absolutely! There [...]
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EDH Weekly Hope: A Look Inside the National Eating Disorders Association

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Lady and daughter going through family-based treatment At Weekly Hope, experts, clinicians, advocates and people with recovery stories from the wide spectrum of the eating disorder community are invited to share their stories, insights, and wisdom. In this week’s episode, we welcome Claire Mysko, the CEO of the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA). She is joining us from New York City. Part [...]
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The Eating Disorder Recovery Process Isn’t Fake; It’s Practice

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Woman in hat working the eating disorder recovery process Contributor: Camille Williams, MA, NCC, LCPC, Eating Disorder Program Coordinator at Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center There’s a common phrase for early recovery, “fake it ‘til you make it” that basically means just do what you’re told until you eventually believe it. This phrase goes against a lot of the eating disorder recovery process and [...]
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Best Practices for Effective Anorexia Treatment – Part VI

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Black woman in Eating Disorder Treatment Specifically for Women and bringing honesty in eating disorder recovery Expressive Therapy An essential part of expressive therapies is the idea that all individuals have embodiment and practice, that is, they experience their body in a different way. For example, an individual may experience their body differently when full or not full or purging or not purging than others do. Expressive therapy works toward the [...]
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