Eating disorders can be a way of coping with the relational trauma of having parents or caregivers who weren’t there for us when we needed them.

If you deal with relational trauma from your childhood, it can be helpful and affirming to understand how that trauma shows up in your eating disorder behaviors.

All about self-esteem— what it is, how it develops, why it becomes low, and how to raise it.

As we reflect on past experiences and where we want to be in the future, we may reach a point where we feel disconnected from ourselves or our purpose. We may start feeling like we are broken and have lost the sense of who we are or once were, and begin a journey to “find ourselves” again. But here’s why we don’t actually need to “find” ourselves and how we can return to our true selves instead.