Discover the role of eating disorder recovery coaching in supporting individuals on their journey to recovery. Gain insight into the benefits and assistance recovery coaches offer.
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Discover how to support your teen with an eating disorder. Learn about warning signs, open communication, seeking help, and available support groups.
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Alex Rudin is a social artist who works to bring awareness to feminist issues including eating disorders. Having personally experienced an eating disorder and body image concerns, Alex openly shares her thoughts and feelings during the process of healing her relationship with food and her body. With her vulnerability, she hopes to give readers the strength and support to help them in their own journey of healing.
In this Q&A, Alex shares the healing power of artwork, particularly during the recovery process.
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Discover how Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) empowers eating disorder recovery. Learn about its mindfulness strategies and value-based approach.
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Movement can be very formative to building a connection with your body, especially in eating disorder recovery. Clients with eating disorders often transform their relationship with movement during their recovery. There’s more to learn about the relationship between movement and eating disorder recovery.
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Recovery itself is hard, and the road to recovery is not always linear. However, this can cause those in recovery from eating disorders to lose motivation and become complacent or ambivalent towards treatment. It is important to stay motivated during eating discovery recovery, and there are many methods and tricks to keep motivated throughout the journey.
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Mindfulness and meditation have become widely used and highly popular calming strategies, and for good reason. These practices help with grounding and play an important role in healing one’s relationship with their body. These tools can be especially useful for eating disorder recovery.
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Ambivalence refers to the state of experiencing two opposing feelings toward a particular course of action. Despite the dangerous health consequences that are associated with eating disorder behaviors, those who are ambivalent toward recovery may experience anxiety, uncertainty, or fear surrounding the need for treatment.
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Eating disorders are serious but treatable mental illnesses that are irrespective of age, gender, race, ethnicity, and sociocultural background. While the onset of most eating disorders occurs during the period of adolescence or early adulthood, eating disorders have been reported in children as young as 7 years old. For students in recovery for an eating disorder, the transition back to school may pose a risk without appropriate support, planning, and resources.
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Ananda de Jager is the author of Poems of Recovery, a collection of poetry that provides an intimate and honest look at her eating disorder recovery. Ananda openly shares her thoughts and feelings during the process of healing her relationship with herself and food. In this Q&A, Ananda shares the healing power of writing, sharing, and reading poetry, particularly during the recovery process.
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Eating disorder recovery is a complex process that is far from linear. Many people with eating disorders will experience a relapse on their journey to recovery. A relapse occurs when an individual in recovery reverts back to their previous disordered coping mechanisms and thoughts. While a relapse may feel demoralizing, relapsing is a common part of the recovery process. There is much to learn from a relapse.
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Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses that affect more than just the individual in recovery. Friends, family members, partners, and peers play an important role in identifying worrying symptoms and encouraging loved ones with disordered eating behaviors to seek help. Having a strong support system is essential for a successful recovery.
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