Repairing Personal Relationships Through Eating Disorder Recovery

Anorexia or bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), or even unlisted disorders like orthorexia nervosa – it doesn’t matter the type of eating disorder, it can have an effect on personal relationships with other people. Although it’s often less prioritized than the physical and behavioral effects of eating disorders, a…

Frequently Asked Questions About Eating Disorders

Even though eating disorders can affect people of all ages, genders, and races, they usually first appear during the teenage years and young adulthood. Parents and other people close to an individual with an eating disorder can easily miss the signs and symptoms, especially if they have not experienced one of these disorders before. Because…

What to Expect in Day Treatment for Eating Disorders

Most eating disorder treatment programs offer a variety of different treatment options for people with eating disorders. They are proud to provide the highest level of care for their clients in a safe and home-like setting. The best programs also understand that an eating disorder diagnosis can not only be difficult for their clients but…

What Results Has the Pandemic Had on People with Eating Disorders?

It’s hard to believe the world has been coping with COVID-19 for more than a year now. For many of us, it’s hard to believe it’s only been a year – it can feel like twenty years sometimes. In these times, everything has been restricted; we work differently, play differently, and importantly we eat and…

Let’s Talk About Nutritional Programming and Eating Disorder Treatment

In light of March being National Nutritional Awareness Month, it’s time to talk about a topic that’s near and dear to our hearts (and stomachs!): the importance of nutrition and meal planning when it comes to eating disorder treatment. So often, eating disorder treatment discussions focus on cognitive retraining, medical care, therapy techniques, and the…

The Differences Between Emotional Eating and Binge Eating Disorder

It’s not always easy for people outside professional eating disorder treatment circles to draw the line between borderline disordered eating behaviors and full-blown eating disorders. In many cases, the line is blurred – one can lead to another very easily. It’s common for the underlying causes for these kinds of behaviors to be similar, or…

What’s the Relationship Between Trauma and Eating Disorders?

Among the psychiatric profession and the experts at most modern eating disorder treatment centers, there is a push to provide eating disorder treatment solutions which not only allow for short term eating disorder recovery but to provide a sustainable change in the lifestyles of the patients. This often entails examining not only the symptoms of…