New year, new you! It’s time to plan a lifestyle overhaul! Or maybe not. After all, most New Year’s resolutions go out the window after January anyway. And setting goals for the new year doesn’t make you ‘better.’ You are 100% enough right now. But if you do want to strive for personal development, that’s great too. To find out how to set attainable goals, let’s look at why New Year’s resolutions often don’t work in the first place.

While you are undoubtedly becoming the expert on how the eating disorder is impacting your family, you may not be aware of some additional complexities. Here is what to look out for . . .

If you also struggle with perfectionism, you likely have high expectations for your academic performance. Grades can make or break you. When you rely on test scores to determine your worth, it’s easy to spiral.

Southern California eating disorder therapist Courtney Fazli works with clients dealing with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, trauma, body image issues, relational issues, life transitions, self-harm, perfectionism, anxiety, and depression.

Los Angeles eating disorder therapist Lauren Lambert is here to help you work through perfectionism, conquer self-harm, and speak up for what you need.

Brainspotting operates on the idea that where you look affects how you feel. It is useful for eating disorder recovery and trauma therapy.

Perfectionism strengthens your eating disorder and causes you to set unrealistic expectations for yourself. Learn how to work through your perfectionistic tendencies to recover and be kinder to yourself.

How perfectionism shows up in people with eating disorders.

Perfectionism is a contributing factor for eating disorders. But what does it mean to be a perfectionist?

The pandemic is hard on all of us. But practicing self-compassion can help. Here’s how.

Words and the stories you tell yourself have the greatest power over the way you view yourself — above anyone or anything else — which is why you must take great care to nourish yourself with words and thoughts that serve you instead of harm you.

While many people associate self-compassion with its gentler and softer side, rest assured, self-compassion can be strong and fierce as well, protecting you as a mother bear protects her cub. Learn more about the importance of fierce compassion and how use it while practicing self-care.

Rather than allowing negative thoughts to bully you and affect how you feel about yourself, start practicing these five mindful ways to respond to your negative thoughts (and even befriend them to understand how they are trying to help you).

We’re often own own worst critics when it comes to our bodies, but showing ourselves compassion is proven to be effective at alleviating the experience of pain and suffering from negative body image and promotes self-acceptance.

Of the myriad of human emotions, shame is arguably the most distressing of them all. Learn how self-compassion can be used to minimize harmful feelings of shame.

The practice of self-compassion can help ease and even eliminate the mental turmoil that perfection causes.

So you survived the long Thanksgiving weekend, and now you are feeling bad about your body because you enjoyed the delicious food and drink with your family and friends. But the key to beating your body image blues may be in practicing self-compassion.