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Holiday Diet Culture Tips: Protect Your Peace Around Food

Holiday Diet Culture Tips: Protect Your Peace Around Food Diet culture often rears its ugly head during holiday celebrations, especially during meals and gatherings, making holiday diet culture tips essential for navigating these challenging moments. Intuitive eating registered dietitian Christy Harrison defines diet culture as “a system of beliefs that equates thinness, muscularity, and particular body shapes with health and moral virtue; promotes weight loss and body reshaping as a means of attaining a higher status; demonizes certain foods and food groups while elevating others; and oppresses people who don’t match up with its supposed picture of ‘health’” (Harrison,

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Orthorexia and Clean-Eating Pressures During the Holidays

Orthorexia and Clean-Eating Pressures During the Holidays With the holiday season approaching, individuals and their families prepare their decorations and come together to celebrate Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Hanukkah. These blissful months represent spending time with loved ones, connecting with one’s faith, and partaking in memorable occasions. However, individuals may struggle with the celebrations if they’re experiencing orthorexia, a little-understood eating disorder. What Is Orthorexia? For starters, what is orthorexia? Orthorexia is known as a less common eating disorder that falls into the category of unclassified eating disorders not featured in the DSM-5-TR. Individuals experiencing symptoms of orthorexia focus

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Celiac Disease and Eating Disorders

Celiac Disease and Eating Disorders Celiac disease is one of the more common autoimmune disorders in which individuals experience an intolerance to eating any foods containing gluten. For instance, if individuals are experiencing symptoms, they should consult with medical professionals as treatment options are available. However, research has shown a correlation between the symptoms of celiac disease and eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa and ARFID. Therefore, understanding the connection between these conditions is essential for proper diagnosis and treatment. reach out to our team today What Is Celiac Disease? Celiac disease is a chronic autoimmune disorder in which

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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Eating Disorders

Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to Support Eating Disorder Recovery Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is one of the many approaches to psychotherapy, through which individuals look to accept their thoughts and feelings rather than denying them entirely. In particular, individuals who are actively engaged in eating disorder recovery may utilize ACT with a mental health professional to help reduce eating disorder behaviors and, ultimately, improve their relationships with food, body, and self-esteem. learn about our eating disorder treatment services What Is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy? Acceptance and commitment therapy, or ACT, is a type of talk therapy

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Dance Therapy And Eating Disorders

Dance Therapy And Eating Disorders Creative arts therapies, such as art, dance, and music therapy, have grown in popularity as beneficial forms of eating disorder treatments. In particular, dance therapy involves movement and dance to support one’s health and well-being. As such, it can be beneficial for individuals in eating disorder recovery to improve their mental health. explore treatment options at balance What Is Dance Therapy? Board-certified dance therapist Erica Hornthal states that dance therapy uses movement and nonverbal communication, in addition to talk therapy, to manage psychological and behavioral concerns that words alone do not address. Some techniques

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Podcasts to Help You Understand Eating Disorders

Podcasts to Help You Understand Eating Disorders Whether you are in the middle of your eating disorder recovery journey or are hoping to better understand eating disorders to support a loved one, these podcasts can be a great resource for you! Episodes cover a wide variety of topics and often feature interviews with eating disorder experts and people who have recovered from eating disorders themselves. These podcasts debunk diet and wellness culture myths and share tools to help you develop a better relationship with food. check out podcasts balance has been featured in Food Psych Podcast By: Christy Harrison

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What Causes Eating Disorders?

What Causes Eating Disorders? The signs, symptoms, and consequences of eating disorders are commonly talked about on various public platforms. However, the causes and risk factors of eating disorders are seldom mentioned and are overshadowed by misconceptions. In today’s blog, we will learn about the potential causes and risk factors that lead to eating disorders and tackle misconceptions surrounding them. schedule a free discovery call But what causes eating disorders? Although the exact causes of eating disorders remain unknown, genetics and biology play prospective roles. For instance, individuals may have certain genes that increase their risk of developing eating

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Supporting a Loved One In Eating Disorder Recovery

How to Support a Loved One Through Eating Disorder Recovery The support of friends and family can help immensely for someone going through eating disorder recovery. Supporting a loved one in eating disorder recovery can help make difficult moments and events more manageable, prevent and catch signs of relapse, mitigate shame and stigma related to the eating disorder, and provide accountability for meeting treatment goals. join our free support group to support your loved one Friends and family members supporting a loved one in eating disorder treatment face many questions and challenges of their own. One of the biggest

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Orthorexia – When Healthy Eating Becomes Unhealthy

Orthorexia: When Healthy Eating Becomes Unhealthy Orthorexia is defined as the obsession with eating healthy food. It stems from the Greek word “ortho,” which means correct. People who struggle with orthorexia are usually hyper-fixated on the quality of the food they are ingesting as opposed to the quantity. This obsession can be incredibly detrimental to one’s health, both mentally and physically, similar to the more well-known eating disorders, such as bulimia nervosa or anorexia nervosa. Learn about our holiday headstart program Orthorexia is less well-known but is increasing in prevalence as social media has geared the world towards a

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Halloween and Eating Disorder Recovery

Navigating Eating Disorder Recovery During Halloween As we are halfway through October, spooky season is here. Halloween marks the annual traditions of watching scary movies, wearing costumes, trick-or-treating, and attending parties. However, individuals who are in eating disorder recovery may have a more challenging time celebrating Halloween due to triggering content or pressure from family and friends. speak with our team today about support during halloween Halloween Costumes & Body Image Dressing up for Halloween can bring up body image issues for those in eating disorder recovery. However, individuals can dress in an outfit that makes them physically and

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Holiday Diet Culture Tips: Protect Your Peace Around Food

Celiac Disease and Eating Disorders

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Eating Disorders

Dance Therapy And Eating Disorders

Podcasts to Help You Understand Eating Disorders

What Causes Eating Disorders?

Supporting a Loved One In Eating Disorder Recovery

Orthorexia – When Healthy Eating Becomes Unhealthy

Halloween and Eating Disorder Recovery

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