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Meditation: Tune into Your Recovery Thoughts, Quiet the Eating Disorder

If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there’s room to hear more subtle things. That’s when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things

Eating Disorders and Vaping: What’s the Link?

Vaping is very much on the rise in adolescents and adults. (1) While early research shows that e-cigarettes are less dangerous to health than traditional cigarettes, there is no published data yet on ...

When exercise crosses the line from healthy to harmful

Exercise is, undoubtedly, a generally healthy enterprise and many people embark on new exercise routines at this time of year. While most people are striving to meet the Department of Health’s ...

Stuck in Eating Disorder Behaviors? Dare Greatly & Reach Out

Most of us love to share fun times, joys and pleasures with the people we hold most dear. Those euphoric moments can bond us together and create happy memories. In the sweetness of friendship let ...

Why does binge eating usually happen at night? And what can you do about it?

For people with binge eating disorder (BED), nighttime is an especially high risk period for experiencing a binge episode (1). New research published in the International Journal of Obesity (2) sheds ...

Helping Someone with an Eating Disorder? …Follow the Research

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them. Dalai Lama It can extremely scary, overwhelming and frustrating to provide assistance to a ...

A pathway from early trauma to eating disorders

Psychologists have long known that early traumatic experiences increase the risk of developing an eating disorder later in life. For example, people who were sexually abused as children are more ...

Weight Watchers & Teens: Will they get hooked on dieting?

Did you hear the recent announcement that Weight Watchers will be offering free services to teens (ages 13-17) starting this summer? They have cloaked the program in a language of wellness, calling ...

Body Image Flexibility: A secret key to recovery in eating disorders?

Negative thoughts about one’s weight, shape, and body size are a common thread across eating disorders. For anorexia and bulimia, placing excess importance on one’s appearance is an essential ...

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