By: Hannah de Groot MEd. Updated: 23 July 2024 I hope you are all doing as well as you can at this time. I hope you are showing yourself grace, practicing self-compassion (for help on this, check this  out!), and supporting your loved ones. This week I would like to spend time discussing the eating disorder ARFID, short for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder. ARFID is an eating disorder categorized by intense restriction. Similar to anorexia, people with ARFID limit th

By: Rachel Dodson RD, LDN My goal for my clients who are pursuing recovery is to help them create an environment where their eating disorder cannot thrive. It’s hard to do the mental work of recovery with a malnourished brain, but if you or someone you care about has walked through recovery, you know that it’s not as simple as “just eat!” Your eating disorder will do everything it can to create an environment in which it can continue to control you and your thoughts around f

By: Rachel Dodson RD, LDN As the weather gets warmer, it’s a perfect time to have a conversation about set point theory. Sadly this time of year many people, stuck in the toxic cycles of diet culture, are thinking about getting their bodies “summer ready.” Fun fact: your body is already summer ready because your body is not a project . Maybe you’ve operated most of your life thinking your body was a project, trying to change it or manipulate its size. Think about it like th

By: Abby Emmert M.A. A large and challenging step of recovery is making peace with exercise. A question I get very often in sessions is,...

By: Rachel Dodson RD, LDN & Gabby Morreale M.A. LPC. What is Intuitive Eating? Intuitive Eating was developed by two Registered Dietitians, Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch, in the 1990’s in an effort to combat what we’re sold in diet culture. The authors define Intuitive Eating as, “a personal process of honoring health by listening and responding to the direct messages of the body in order to get your needs met.” Intuitive Eating is an anti-diet and weight-neutral approach to

By: Gabby Morreale M.A. LPC. DBT-C. With the Christmas Holiday fast approaching, stress and anxiety about family interactions are often at an all-time high. I know that interacting with family can be fun and exciting but also challenging and difficult. It is a true example at dialectics at its best!! Sometimes these difficult interactions make us want to engage with our eating disorder behaviors. Gentle reminder: not now- not ever, is your eating disorder the answer. Remember

By: Rachel Dodson RD, LDN One of the principles of intuitive eating is “feeling your fullness.” But it’s important to remember, we cannot honor our fullness until we honor our hunger. This means responding to your different types of hunger (physical, taste, emotional, practical), choosing to eat foods that make you feel good + honor what you are craving, and creating meals that include components that are SATISFYING (ie a plate of raw veggies will leave you feeling physicall

By: Rachel Dodson RD, LDN Fighting diet culture and all of the noise surrounding food can be tough all throughout the year, but especially during the holiday season. Now, I LOVE THE HOLIDAYS. The movies, the activities, giving (and getting lol) gifts, seeing people who you don’t get to see regularly and all the flavors of the seasons. This time of year is magical but can be a stressful time filled with tension and anxiety surrounding your relationship with food during recover

By Abbey Emmert M.A. and Gabrielle Morreale M.A. LPC. If you have struggled with an eating disorder, or know someone who has, the topic of values may have come up. Just like living with an abusive partner, after a certain amount of time of living with this opposite force, it can be hard not to start adopting the other’s values and replacing your own with them. You can be months into the relationship before you realize it's caused you to lose friendships, family members, and

By: Abby Emmert When I typed in “Emotional Eating” to a search engine, I got advertisements for Noom and their tagline to “Stop stress...

By: Abby Emmert & Gabby Morreale No matter what kind of eating disorder you have, you probably know that buying clothes, trying on clothes, going through your clothes that you currently own in recovery is so frustrating. Mostly because you know that your body is going to be different, but we promise that's ok!! Also knowing you may have outgrown or may need to outgrow some of these clothes in the future can feel stressful. This unknown or unpredictability can be really frust