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Binge Eating Disorder Recovery—It’s Not About Weight Loss

Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is more common than most people realize. In a culture obsessed with appearance, internalizing feelings of shame about body size and shape are all too common. The stereotypes and weight stigma associated with BED have…

Summer of Self-Love

Body Image, Recovery

We’ve reached the time of year when, even more so than usual, we’re bombarded with messages saying our bodies aren’t good enough as is; and that to feel confident and have a wonderful summer we need to look a certain way or weigh X pounds.…

National Minority Mental Health Month 2018

BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, Men, Recovery, Understanding Eating Disorders

National Minority Mental Health Month may be winding down, but the conversation about mental health in marginalized communities doesn’t — and shouldn’t — stop. National Minority Mental Health Month may be winding down, but the conversation…

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Recovery Doesn’t Just Happen

Anorexia, Binge Eating Disorder, Body Image, Bulimia, Recovery

Recovery doesn’t just happen. It’s also not some cliché buzzword tossed around to “inspire” you. Recovery is real. It’s not a luck-of-the-draw deal where you put your name in a hat and hope to be chosen. It’s a grueling, relentless,…

A Work-in-Progress: Living My Best #FitLife Post Eating Disorder

Anorexia, Athletes, Binge Eating Disorder, Body Image, Bulimia, Orthorexia, Recovery, Social Media, Special Topics, Understanding Eating Disorders

If you ask my friends in NYC to describe me, you’ll be painted a picture of a boss lady taking on the city as a full-time professor, writer, and consultant, in addition to being a fitness influencer. They’ll also tell you I’m a people…

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Eating Disorder Traits as Strengths in Recovery

Anorexia, Athletes, Body Image, Recovery, Research, Understanding Eating Disorders

The focus in the eating disorders field is usually on diagnoses, symptoms, and related impairment. There has been little research, or even discussion, about negative traits that were present during the illness, which can be positive during and…

How the NEDA Screening Tool Woke Me Up

Recovery, Understanding Eating Disorders

For so long, I existed in what I thought was a gray area. The entity I can now recognize as diet culture was guiding me for my whole life, or at least beginning from the moment I understood that hating my body was commonplace. As a child, I…

Thank You For Everything, Mom.

Parents & Caregivers, Recovery

I feel extremely lucky to have a mother that is also my best friend. She has and always will be a source of comfort for me. When I was in elementary school and would come home from ballet class in tears because the teacher made me feel badly…

Every Day – Taking Recovery One Day at a Time.

Men, News & Culture, Recovery

Imagine you take one of those vibrating back-massagers (the kind that look like little plastic squid creatures you might find at a CVS) and place it on the back of your head. Then, use duct tape to secure the massager to your head by wrapping…

Purpose for the Pain: Fusing My Story with My Passion for Music

Recovery

“I’m tired of trying so hard to be what everybody else wants me to be, so now I’m fighting for the girl…little girl in the mirror.” Penning these lyrics was one of the most freeing and rewarding feelings in the world. If…

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