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.

Even though it’s nothing more than a diet culture myth, having anxiety about the “Freshman 15” in college is real and valid.

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.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is used in eating disorder treatment and therapy to help break disordered eating thought patterns.

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?

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

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.

Understanding binge eating disorders can lead to more freedom from it. If you are looking to learn more, we can help you. Or if you’re considering therapy for binge eating, this is a great place to start!

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.

Learn how to spot signs of bulimia nervosa and seek help for yourself or someone you know.

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

National Eating Disorder Awareness Week 2022 See the Change Be the Change: How the eating disorder field has changed according to eating disorder therapists and dietitians.

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.