Sugar has been demonized in diet culture for the past several years, often being characterized with fear-mongering words like “toxic” or “poison”.  Is sugar really as bad for you as you think?

There may be a part of you that wishes you could continue your eating disorder behaviors forever. It’s normal to grieve your eating disorder, even when you know recovery is necessary.

After you’ve been away at college, eating disorder recovery can be hard to manage back at home.

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 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.

Recovery boundaries are meant to give you the time, space, and safety you need in order to heal.

“Anything that impacts an individual’s sense of self – like attachment injuries or divorce – could lead to the development of an eating disorder,” says Kindful Body therapist Samantha Young.

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.

If every conversation about your eating disorder results in your family talking over each other, shutting down, showing defensiveness, centering themselves, playing the victim, or flat-out refusing to address the issue, open and honest communication may feel impossible.

Meet Jen Villasenor, AMFT, an eating disorder therapist for teens in California.

Navigating food in college when you have an eating disorder can be extra challenging. It’s important to have a game plan for eating in college.

Tired of facing body comments at Thanksgiving dinner or other family gatherings? Here’s how you can respond to family members who make body comments.

Everyone struggles with eating and body issues to some extent, right? So when is it time to seek help for disordered eating and body image?

Dietitians can be helpful if you are struggling with dieting, disordered eating, a diagnosed eating disorder, or figuring out what to eat in general.

Is body positivity possible? Instagram may make it look easy, but every body image journey and eating disorder recovery is unique.

Being thin is often equated with being healthy, but ‘thin’ and ‘healthy’ aren’t synonymous. ‘Fat’ and ‘healthy’ aren’t mutually exclusive. Health is determined by more than just body size.

Meal plans, intuitive eating, and everything else you need to know about nutrition counseling for eating disorder recovery.

Having a relationship while in eating disorder recovery is not impossible. Here are things to keep in mind if you are dating while recovering from an eating disorder.

Black eating disorder professionals and advocates you should know.

Bingeing or emotional eating can be valid coping mechanisms in stressful times. But left unchecked, these disordered eating behaviors can damage your relationship with food.