Binge-Eating Disorder
What is binge-eating disorder?
Binge-eating disorder is the most common eating disorder in the United States. It's an eating disorder where one has episodes of eating large quantities of food with a feeling of losing control and being accompanied by shame and guilt afterward.
Healing from Binge Eating Disorder is challenging but it is possible!!! Learning to emotionally regulate and make peace with our relationship w/food and our bodies can be difficult but you can do it with Recovered and Restored!!
Remember that sometimes recovery is a little like frostbite it can hurt or even burn but then it heals. Binge Eating disorder can often feel isolating but you don’t have to do it alone. Recovery takes time and effort and you are so incredibly capable and beyond worthy. Make peace with food and your body today with help from our skilled team of therapists and clinicians!!!
Symptoms of binge-eating disorder include:
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Rapidly eating your food
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Eating until feeling uncomfortably full
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Eating when you don’t feel physically hungry
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Shame and guilt around eating
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No regular compensatory behaviors
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Binges occur a minimum of 1x per week for 3 months
Some treatment approaches we use to help you on your binge-eating disorder recovery journey are:
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Trauma Informed Care
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Exposure Therapy (ERP)
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Nutritional Education
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Art Therapy
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Movement Therapy
It is possible to recover. There are some tips and tricks that can help provide the support needed to maintain a healthy state of being and resist the temptations to relapse.
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Admit there is a problem you do not have to suffer alone.
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Begin therapy and create a multidisciplinary team including a HAES therapist, HAES nutritionist, and primary care HAES physician.
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Understand that no food is moral. It's not good or bad, just food!
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Get rid of your scale and stop focusing on your weight, but focus more on how your body feels.
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Identify your triggers and work towards finding alternatives.
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Join a support group, such as our Meal Support Group.
Healing From a Binge Eating Disorder is Possible
Binge eating disorder can often feel isolating and like a cycle that feels impossible to break but you can be a cycle breaker!!! Healing from binge eating disorder is possible! It is possible to heal from binge eating disorder it often takes support, strength, and self-compassion. Self-compassion is key to all eating disorder recovery.
Often times our inner critics convince us we “can’t” but self-compassion helps us believe we CAN and helps us hold space and grace for the bumps along the way!! Remember healing is not linear. It will take time and it may feel difficult at times but we promise it is worth it!! Here is a blog written by our therapist Hannah that can help you along your self-compassion journey.
Start Binge Eating Disorder Treatment at Recovered and Restored Eating Disorder Therapy Center
We are here to support you! We’ve been there we get it. We provide outpatient services as well as more intense treatment with an individualized team of recovered professionals. Check out a blog by our owner Gabby where she shares about her personal healing and triumph.
You can have recovery too!! You are worthy of healing and inner peace connect with us today!
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Begin your journey to health and wholeness! You CAN do this!
Other Mental Health Services Offered in PA, NJ, DE, MD, FL, and SC
We offer a wide variety of services related to eating disorder recovery including trauma therapy! We offer Weekly Support Groups, Nutrition Services, and Family and Parent Therapy as well as Coaching, all tailored to meet the specific needs of the individual. We offer our services online in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, South Carolina, and Florida! We are here to offer our support and understanding in a safe and non-judgmental environment.
Online Therapy for Binge-Eating Disorder
We provide virtual eating disorder therapy to anyone living in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, South Carolina, and Florida. Some towns served virtually include, but not limited to are Chester County, Bucks County, Montgomery County, Delaware County, Essex County, Somerset County, Morris County, New Castle County, Sussex County, Kent County, Sarasota County, Broward County, Monroe County, and more.