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Learn More About CBT-E
A form of CBT called Enhanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT-E) is an adaptation of CBT designed to treat eating disorders. Learn more!
What Do We Know For Sure About Suicidal Ideation in Young People?
Managing a child with suicidal ideation can be an overwhelming task for parents. Here, we discuss treatment options and share helpful advice.
Securing the Environment for Suicidal Teens
Tragically, the prevalence of suicidal teens has increased over the last decade. Here, we share advice for parents with a child in crisis.
DBT Skill for Emotion Regulation: Mastering the “Please” Skill
The blog discusses the PLEASE skill from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), highlighting its role in emotional regulation by addressing essential areas of self-care: physical health, loneliness, nutrition, avoidance, substance use, and exercise. By attending to these components, individuals can enhance their emotional well-being and reduce impulsive behaviors.
Understanding the Neuroscience of Anorexia and Anxiety
Anorexia is not just a choice—it’s influenced by biological factors. Discover how brain chemistry and serotonin levels impact eating behaviors and how understanding the neuroscience of anorexia can help improve treatment and recovery.
Regular Eating: The “Vaccine” For Eating Disorders
We’d like to share a tried-and-true method that helps people overcome disordered eating habits. It's called regular eating.
Why Can’t I Stop Eating?
Why can't I stop eating? You’re not alone. Overeating or binge eating is way more common than you can imagine.
What You Need to Know About Outpatient Eating Disorder Treatment
Today, let's focus on outpatient eating disorder treatment, which offers patients the least restrictive setting for recovery.
Poor Body Image Across the Globe
Let’s consider poor body image across the globe and take a closer look at how it may be negatively impacting you or a loved one.
Reducing the Influence of Poor Body Image
Today, I want to introduce you to an exercise for people who find that their poor body image is getting in the way of their lives.
Overcoming Poor Body Image
Addressing poor body image doesn’t mean that you have to love your body in order to feel a sense of well-being in your life.
Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Not Just Poor Body Image
In body dysmorphic disorder, an individual will have an extreme preoccupation with a particular body part or feature of their appearance.
What Do Eating Disorders Look Like?
What do eating disorders look like? Eating disorders impact people of every ethnicity, age, socioeconomic status, gender, and body size.
Early Change and Favorable Outcomes in Eating Disorder Treatment
Evidence over the last 20 years reinforces that early change to eating disorder treatment is a “robust” predictor of a good outcome.
The Anorexic Wish and “Feeling Fat”
On the journey to recovery, many patients talk about the anorexic wish and "feeling fat." Learn more about these experiences.
“Feeling Fat” and Eating Disorder Recovery
This blog post includes some handy tips for "feeling fat" and reducing problematic self-talk, but in many cases, professional help is needed.
Best Practices for Evidence-Based Eating Disorder Treatments in 2022
Evidence-based eating disorder treatment refers to interventions or therapies that are supported by published research and demonstrate effectiveness or evidence of success. Let’s take a look at evidence-based eating disorder treatment for the most common eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), binge eating disorder (BED), other specified feeding and eating disorder (OSFED) and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID).
Everything You Need to Know About IOP
An intensive outpatient program (IOP) is provides therapeutic services while participants live at home and engage in their typical activities.
Compulsive Exercise, Exercise Addiction, Driven Exercise, and Exercise Dependence - What’s It All About?
Compulsive exercise is best defined as a rigid and highly driven urge to be physically active with a perceived inability to stop exercising.
10 Surprising Facts About Eating Disorders
As we celebrate National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, it’s the perfect time to share 10 surprising facts about eating disorders.