Discover how to challenge diet culture and reframe your beliefs with these five empowering techniques. Break free from food morality, exercise for joy, embrace diverse body sizes, honor your hunger cues, and set boundaries in a diet-focused world. Learn to navigate diet culture effectively.
Explore the journey of body image development from childhood to adulthood. Discover the factors that shape your self-perception, including family, media, and friends. Learn actionable steps to improve body appreciation and enhance your relationship with your body.
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Discover the power of positive affirmations in eating disorder recovery with BALANCE. Transform eating disorder thoughts into healing affirmations with expert insights.
Navigate the holiday season with ease during your eating disorder recovery with BALANCE. Discover tips on planning, seeking support, embracing uncertainty, and maintaining focus on your journey to wellness. Stay connected and nourished this winter.
Unlock the secrets to embracing your true self with our latest blog, where we delve into the myriad of factors that define you beyond your body size, inspiring a journey of self-discovery and acceptance.
Navigate Thanksgiving with grace while in recovery. Find tips on BALANCE's blog for handling food and body comments to maintain a recovery-focused holiday.
As you pursue recovery from your eating disorder, you may wonder what a healthy relationship with food looks like. Aside from meeting your body’s physiological needs and adequately nourishing your body, our relationship with food can also be highly emotional. How we interact with food is incredibly complicated.
Labor Day can be an exciting time to gather with friends and family to celebrate summer. However, for people in recovery from an eating disorder, this holiday can pose undue stress and overwhelm. As with anything out of someone’s routine, holidays can pose unpredictable challenges in recovery.
A new trend is sweeping social media: “girl dinner” videos, where women post their food with amusing, satirical audio. However, this trend is not as innocent as it may seem. This video trend intends to show what women see as viable meal options that require little to no effort. But like many videos that portray what one person eats on a given day, these videos can cause more harm than good.
Diet culture often influences us to try new weight loss methods perpetually, be it Weight Waters, Noom, or trendy diets such as Keto or Intermittent Fasting. Although society sees these as “healthy” or “normal,” the sustainability and benefits of these restrictive dieting practices are harmful to most individuals.
