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When you can accept relationships for what they are, you’ll be better able to focus your energy on the ones that need nurturing

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.

Academic stress, social pressures, and college diet culture can all contribute to disordered eating.

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.

Grief can affect every aspect of your daily life and take a toll on your mental and physical health, so it’s important to understand the symptoms of grief and how to live with 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.

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?

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