Spending the Holidays in Treatment and Keeping Your Traditions

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Woman with Binge eating disorder during the Holidays The holidays are a complicated time for those in eating disorder treatment.  While the festivities may be exciting, it’s hard to imagine celebrating as one usually does without the home, traditions, and family they normally have around them. While your holiday celebrations will undoubtedly be different in treatment, you can still have a joyous time! Focus [...]
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Discussing my Eating Disorder With Extended Family as a Teen

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Woman holding holiday lights Determining who to tell about your eating disorder is an important and challenging decision. To share your struggles is to be incredibly vulnerable. You need to surround yourself with people that you can trust to honor that vulnerability. Telling your parents or close friends may have felt like a no-brainer, but it’s tough to determine [...]
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How to Support My Recovery with Structure During the Holidays?

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Woman struggling with eating disorder It’s “the most wonderful time of the year,” for most people.  For those in eating disorder recovery, it can also be the most challenging time of the year.  With holiday traditions come traditional holiday meals, leaving those in recovery vulnerable to emotional turmoil and relapse.  Creating a plan and maintaining structure throughout this time of year can help [...]
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Seasonal Depression: Stay on Track in Eating Disorder Recovery

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Walking in the Spring Seasonal depression is more than just feeling tired when winter sets in. Shorter daylight and the start of fall and winter can trigger seasonal affective disorder for many individuals. Seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, is a type of depressive disorder that occurs from fall/winter until spring time. Approximately 5% of individuals in the United States [...]
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