Recovering From an Eating Disorder: Grieving the Old Behaviours
Recovering From an Eating Disorder: Grieving the Old Behaviours Recovery from an eating disorder is often a challenging and emotional process. Each day, you may be required to reduce exercise or body checking, abandon safety rituals such as purging, and consume food that you may have labelled as “bad.” Additionally, throughout the recovery process, you […]
Rewiring Your Mind: How CBT Transforms Eating Disorder Recovery
Rewiring Your Mind: How CBT Transforms Eating Disorder Recovery September often feels like the new January, offering a perfect opportunity to kick-start a goal with renewed enthusiasm. As summer’s relaxed pace transitions into the structure of fall, there’s a natural shift in energy similar to the start of a new year. With kids back in […]
Menopause, Mental Health, and Your Relationship with Your Body: Does Menopause Impact Weight Gain?
Menopause, Mental Health, and Your Relationship with Your Body: Does Menopause Impact Weight Gain? Mental health struggles and eating disorders don’t discriminate when it comes to age—anyone can develop one at any time. Research has placed an emphasis on adolescence and young adulthood and how these formative years may influence eating habits and Body Image, […]
Debunking the Myths of Modern Wellness: How to Spot Harmful Health Advice Online
Debunking the Myths of Modern Wellness: How to Spot Harmful Health Advice Online With the rise of social media usage, and upsurge of consumption since COVID-19, there is an overwhelming quantity of online information about health and lifestyle. You might constantly come across articles, videos, and posts about the “best” way to exercise, to eat, […]
Ditch Diet Culture: Step One in Disordered Eating Recovery
Ditch Diet Culture: Step One in Disordered Eating Recovery From overt headlines like “How sugar is making you sick!” to more surreptitious messages about fat bodies in movies and TV (Wall-E we’re looking at you!) diet culture is everywhere. Sometimes it is easy to spot, and other times it takes discussion and reflection to unlearn. Its […]
Binge Eating and Grief: Coping with Food
Binge Eating and Grief: Coping with Food What is Binge Eating? Binge eating episodes occur when individuals consume an excessive amount of food, surpassing the point of fullness, within a short period of time. Typically, those who experience these episodes also exhibit a loss of control over their eating behaviours. Individuals who meet the clinical […]
Restriction and “Forbidden” Foods: Why Binge Eating Isn’t Usually Just a Bingeing Problem
Restriction and “Forbidden” Foods: Why Binge Eating Isn’t Usually Just a Bingeing Problem Do you find yourself getting caught up in diet after diet, feeling accomplished once you start to see results, only for it to be temporary because the moment you allow yourself to return to some semblance of normal eating you lose control […]
Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID): Is My Child Just a “Picky Eater”?
Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID): Is My Child Just a “Picky Eater”? Many parents negotiate with their children to eat the vegetables or meat on their plate. The reality is that many children are “picky eaters,” and it is a part of typical neural development (Silvers et al., 2023). Innate food preferences once protected human […]
Grieving and Letting Go of the ED Identity
Grieving and Letting Go of the ED Identity Are you ready for change? Many people feel ready for change – maybe even impatient and fed up that they persistently engage in disordered eating behaviours, despite wanting to change. If you feel this way, you might feel that it is hard to shake dieting and negative […]
Intuitive Eating: Regaining Trust in Your Body
Intuitive Eating: Regaining Trust in Your Body Picture this: You’re at a restaurant with family, you order mac and cheese because it sounds good and a side salad because you’re craving a fresh crunch. You enjoy some of your kids’ fries and note that your homemade brownies are so much better than the one you […]