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Navigating Thanksgiving in Eating Disorder Recovery
Thanksgiving can be challenging for those in eating disorder recovery. Here are some tips for making the holiday less stressful.
Practicing Gratitude in Recovery
Practicing gratitude can work wonders for our mental health. Here’s how you can apply gratitude to your eating disorder recovery.
What to Do If Your Doctor Tells You to Lose Weight
Weight bias can lead your doctor to prescribe weight loss when weight isn't the real issue. Here's how and why you should advocate for a more holistic examination.
Election Anxiety and Eating Disorder Recovery
Election anxiety can complicate eating disorder recovery. Here’s what you can do to ease the stress.
Maintaining Recovery in the Long-Term
Here’s how you can maintain eating disorder recovery and avoid relapse.
Eating Disorders Are Not Superficial
Eating disorders are social justice issues that can be linked to oppression.
Why Diets Will Never Work
Diets are dangerous and bound to fail in the long-run. Here’s why.
Why Understanding Weight Stigma is Key for Eating Disorder Recovery
Learn how weight stigma or weight discrimination contributes to eating disorders and why being aware of it can help with recovery.
Health at Every Size (HAES) in Eating Disorder Recovery
Here’s why understanding and believing in the Health at Every Size (HAES) principles is key for eating disorder recovery.
Working with Your Perfectionism
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.
Managing Recovery While in College During the Pandemic
Here are some tips for managing eating disorder recovery in college, whether you’re in the dorms alone, living with roommates, or at home with your parents.
Learn to Eat Intuitively Again with Alisha Dudish, RD
Learning to eat intuitively in eating disorder recovery is challenging, but our team’s dietitian is here to help clients in California.
The Surprising Link Between Autism and Anorexia
Autism spectrum disorder and anorexia nervosa are very similar in many ways. Here’s what you might not know about the relationship between the two.
Why Perfectionism and Eating Disorders Go Hand in Hand
How perfectionism shows up in people with eating disorders.
What is Perfectionism?
Perfectionism is a contributing factor for eating disorders. But what does it mean to be a perfectionist?
Do You Need Trauma-Informed Eating Disorder Therapy?
Any experience that left you feeling unsafe in your body is trauma and can hinder your eating disorder recovery. If you have experienced trauma, look for a trauma-informed eating disorder therapist.
What to Do If You Don't Want to Get Help for Your Eating Disorder
If you don’t want to get help for your eating disorder, you aren’t alone. We can help you overcome your fear of treatment.
How Self-Compassion Can Help You Cope with the Pandemic
The pandemic is hard on all of us. But practicing self-compassion can help. Here’s how.
It's Okay to Eat Your Feelings
Emotional eating during this pandemic is more than okay. Here’s why.

