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How to Avoid Burnout During Eating Disorder Recovery
Avoid burnout in eating disorder recovery with self-compassion, stress management, and a balanced routine. Get expert support from Kindful Body.
Addressing Eating Disorders in Marginalized Communities
Eating disorders impact all communities, but barriers to care exist. Learn about challenges marginalized groups face and how to create accessible treatment.
Using Somatic Therapy to Process Food-Related Anxiety
Struggling with food-related anxiety? Learn how somatic therapy can help ease stress, rebuild trust in your body, and create a healthier food relationship.
Managing Shame Around Weight Gain in Recovery
Struggling with shame around weight gain in recovery? Learn how to challenge negative thoughts and create a supportive healing environment.
The Role of Protective Parts in Trauma-Informed IFS Therapy
Discover how protective parts function in trauma-informed IFS therapy and how they can shift toward healing and balance through self-compassion.
Healing Emotional Eating with DBT Skills
Struggling with emotional eating? Learn how DBT skills can help you manage emotions, reduce stress, and build a healthier relationship with food.
How to Stop Constantly Thinking About Food
If you want to learn how to stop constantly thinking about food—we get it, it’s exhausting. Find out why this is happening to you and how to stop the noise.
Body Checking: What Is This Harmful Habit, and How Can I Stop It?
You’ve heard of body checking—but do you know if you’re doing it? If you are, should you be worried? Here's what you need to know.
What is Food Noise, and How You Can Silence It?
What does food noise actually mean—and is it normal or something to be worried about? Understand this popular term and what it means for you.
What Exercise Bulimia Is and How to Start Your Healing Journey
Do you need to exercise or you feel consumed with guilt and shame? If so, healing (and much-needed relief) is possible.
CBT-E: How This Therapy Supports Your Long-Term Recovery
CBT-E is a powerful tool for eating disorder recovery. Learn more about how this therapy modality can help you heal.
Six Tips for Parents to Cultivate a Body-Positive Home
While many factors contribute to a person's body image, the home and family environment play an especially crucial role. Children largely develop their body image by observing their parents, unconsciously absorbing how they discuss their own and others' bodies, appearance, weight, and eating habits. Therefore, it's crucial for parents to be mindful of how they approach these topics, especially in front of their children.
Summer Body Image Survival Guide: 10 Tips for High School and College Students to Embrace Body Acceptance This Summer
While summer is often portrayed as a “fun” season full of excitement and activity, it can also worsen pre-existing body image issues in many high school and college students. The media’s pressure on girls and women specifically to slim down in order to achieve the “perfect summer body” is one reason for this.
Healing the Earth, Healing the Self: How the Two Are Connected and Why It Matters Now More Than Ever
Today marks Earth Day—a poignant reminder of our responsibility to care for our planet, especially in light of the escalating environmental crises brought on by human-caused climate change. Sponsored by Senator Gaylord Nelson, Earth Day was created in 1970 to thrust the U.S. government’s lack of environmental regulations into the national spotlight.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy Featured at Tri-State Eating Disorder Conference
Happening April 12th and 13th, this exclusive event presents a rare opportunity to glean insights from the pioneering mind behind Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, Dr. Richard (Dick) Schwartz. Recently featured on widely acclaimed author Glennon Doyle's popular podcast, We Can Do Hard Things, Dick guides Glennon through an exploration of her own internal system of parts, particularly those intertwined with her eating disorder. In a captivating two-part follow-up episode, he extends his guidance to Glennon's co-hosts, Abby Wambach and Amanda Doyle, as they embark on their own explorations of their internal parts.
Navigating Mental Health and Trauma: Talk Therapy vs. EMDR
Traditional talk therapy has long been the cornerstone of mental health treatment. Under the expansive umbrella of talk therapy lie numerous approaches, among them the popularly practiced cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), humanistic therapy, and psychodynamic therapy.

