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ACT Defusion

A core process in ACT is called defusion. It means separating from our thoughts, letting them come and go.

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You're Not Broken: ACT for Eating Disorders

I’ll be blogging about ACT in the coming weeks but wanted to start by sharing a few of my favorite things about it.

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Orthorexia is a term that was created in the 1990s to describe people overly devoted to their healthy diet—an unhealthy obsession with healthiness.

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An article in the International Journal of Eating Disorders highlights predictors of good eating disorder treatment outcomes.

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In today's blog post, we take a look at the 2016 eating disorder treatment guidelines.

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The sooner, the better. My headline after reading an article in the New York Times, “Anorexia May Be Habit, Not Willpower, Study Finds.”

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Eating disorders are a big and largely untreated challenge for adolescents. Here are a few of my takeaways about teens and eating disorders.

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A few weeks ago, I participated in a terrific panel at Juilliard, addressing Julliard students on the topic of dancers and diets.