Hey there! I hope you are staying as safe as you can during this challenging time. It’s been a minute since my last blog post, and while I may have been more quiet on here than in past months, I've been excited and motivated by my hardworking clients, supportive family and peers, and the uptick in attention to mental health in the media. It feels refreshing to see mental health and eating disorders become less stigmatized, and I look forward to seeing these causes get the awa

By: Abby Emmert M.A. You know that needle in a haystack saying? Yeah. That’s what labeling your emotions in your ED is like. Throwing a dart at a bullzeye that isn’t there. Something like that! It’s hard, and sometimes feeling almost impossible. What we know is that those that struggle with eating disorders often struggle with emotion regulation, as well. If you don’t know what this is, it’s one of the pillars of DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy), which is one of the therapy