By: Gabrielle Morreale M.A. LPC. C-DBT. When it comes to social media and eating disorder recovery navigating a balance can be difficult. I don’t know about you, but I often feel like I am in information overload when it comes to social media. I strongly believe our brains were not meant to consume all of this information at once!! Now don’t get me wrong, are there times that I am cracking up over a TikTok sure, but are there also times when I am in a deep anxiety spiral or w

By: Gabrielle Morreale LPC When I sat down to write this blog about trauma therapy and eating disorders, I didn’t know where to start....

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...

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: 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: Abby Emmert M.A. & Gabrielle Morreale LPC A lot of times we see those that struggle with eating disorders also struggle with their relationship with exercise. Exercise can be weaponized as a way to control how our bodies look and feel. It can also be used to compensate and “make up for” the food we eat. It can often come with feelings and emotions such as guilt and shame. It can also come with, what we call in the counseling words, musturbations. These are words like “mus

By Hannah de Groot MEd. Loneliness is universally one of the most painful and challenging emotions to face. It can exacerbate our...

by: Hannah de Groot Med. August fading into September can be challenging as we begin to transition into a new season and a new school year. Summer festivities come to rest for the year and we sometimes have to face realities we’ve been avoiding for the past few months. Change is hard! Life transitions can bring up unresolved habits and unwanted emotions, which might draw out and intensify our stress. This week, let’s talk about managing stress effectively and continuously to

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

By: Hannah de Groot, MEd. With the 2021 Olympics starting this week, it seems like a perfect time to talk SPORTS! As a lifelong athlete and lover of competition, sports are one of my passions and an important part of my identity. While sports can facilitate meaningful friendships, teach discipline and hard work, and be a beautiful form of self expression, it is no secret that sports are not all fun and games (pun intended). Eating disorders run rampant in the sports world, a

Gabby Morreale MA LPC. Hey there! Did you know there are four different types of hunger? As an eating disorder therapist it is usually...

By: Hannah de Groot MEd. June is one of the best months of the year - the weather is warming up, school is out, and most importantly, it is PRIDE MONTH! Pride is a time to highlight and celebrate self-affirmation, equality, and visibility of our LGBTQIA+ community members. It is also time for heterosexual, cisgender people to celebrate our friends, family members and neighbors in the LGBTQIA+ community by advocating for their equal rights and protection. At Recovered and Rest

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

By: Abby Emmert & Gabrielle Morreale Alright, let’s talk about the elephant in the room. If you have a Facebook, Instagram, or Tiktok,...

By: Abby Emmert & Gabby Morreale Diet Culture and Eating Disorders This topic seemed to repeat itself a lot this week. Many clients we work with struggle in their recovery as they find themselves surrounded by a culture obsessed with the thin ideal. Often they find themselves trying to maintain their recovery in a world that is pushing them back into their eating disorder. We live in a world where disordered eating, diet culture, beauty standards, and so many disordered tho