How To Find The Right Eating Disorder Treatment Program
If you’re reading this, you’re already on the right path to eating disorder recovery. You have admitted, at least to yourself, that you need help, and now you’re wondering: “What eating disorder treatment center is right for me?” There are more treatment options than ever before, especially after COVID-19 has revolutionized eating disorder treatment and…
Are Your Treatment Friends Helpful When It Comes To Eating Disorder Recovery?
When you’re in a formal eating disorder treatment program or a recovery community (in-person or online), you end up making friends. When you spend so much time with people who already know and understand your “big secret,” you’re bound to get close to them. The experience of a shared reality is scientifically proven to be…
What Is Evidence-Based Eating Disorder Treatment?
One of the first things you see if you search for eating disorder treatment professionals and programs is “evidence-based eating disorder treatment.” You may also notice “holistic eating disorder treatment” in some search results. What exactly do these terms mean? Are they completely different concepts? How do they work? In this article, you’ll get vital…
Busy Brains And Biohacking: Eating Disorders And The Tech Sector
The tech sector is a fast-paced industry, where people in the field are “always on” and ready to work. You have to work efficiently and produce high-quality work to stay ahead, especially if you are a woman and/or in a minority. In fact, people in this sector want to get ahead so fast that they…
COVID-19 And Eating Disorders: The Continued Impact On Treatment And Recovery (And It’s Actually Not All Bad…)
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed every part of life as we knew it — for better and for worse. Health systems have been strained in every way imaginable and in-person connections have been limited for over a year. But we’ve found new ways to connect and share information. Eating disorders during COVID-19 are experienced and…
Music Therapy For Eating Disorders | Blog
At some point in your life when you were angry, sad, distressed, or just bored, you have probably turned towards music to comfort you. It seems to be a release from those emotions, or at least something that calms you down, right? Did you know that music therapy is an entire therapeutic practice, one that…
Exposure Therapy For Eating Disorders: Trying New Things And Stopping Old Behaviors
When you’re in the depths of an eating disorder, things that seem so easy for everyone else feel impossible to do. Situations like going out to eat, eating a fear food, or eating what someone else serves you may cause you so much anxiety that you just can’t face them. And some eating disorder habits…
ARFID In Adults And Children: Research, Diagnosis, And Treatment
There are probably some picky eaters in your life. You may be one of them. There are different kinds of “picky eating”: from a child who’s unwilling to try new things to an adult who gets the same thing on the menu all the time. But these things don’t severely interfere with a person’s life…
OCPD, OCD, And Eating Disorders: Is There A Correlation?
Many popular media outlets have instilled in us the belief that obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and eating disorders (EDs) have a direct relationship. This is because both OCD and EDs are characterized by repeated unhelpful thoughts and damaging behaviors. However, many new studies investigating the comorbidity (the presence of two or more diseases or conditions…
Identity Crisis: Who am I without my eating disorder?
Written by ‘Ai Pono Hawaii Staff Writer When you’re in an eating disorder, it takes over a huge portion of your life. You spend so much time, energy, and mental space focused on keeping up rigid routines, or going through cycles of using behaviors and then trying to stop. Everything else in your life starts…