Tips for Navigating Valentine’s Day in Eating Disorder Recovery
Valentine’s Day is associated with love, romance, and an occasional giant teddy bear. While the idea of the holiday is about feeling an abundance of love and sharing that with others, it can often be a challenging and lonely day, especially in recovery from an eating disorder.
How To Handle Seasonal Affective Disorder During The Winter In ED Recovery
The months between January and March become filled with cold, chilly weather. However, winter may bring about seasonal affective disorder for those recovering from an eating disorder.
Taking Back Your Thoughts: Positive Self-Talk with Affirmations & Intentions
While it is no secret that eating disorders and food or body distress have an immense negative impact on your physical body, they also significantly impact your brain and thought patterns. In the recovery process, it is essential to take back your thoughts and reestablish a positive self-talk practice.
Navigating New Year’s Resolutions in Eating Disorder Recovery
Setting a goal and working towards it can be an empowering feeling. New Year’s resolutions have become a landmark of goal-setting for millions of people in Western culture. However, diet culture has managed to co-opt the meaning of what is meant to be personal, individualized resolutions into toxic, fear-mongering, and often fatphobic messaging.
Fighting Diet Culture In 2023
The beginning of January brings about the potential for inspiring resolutions and goals. But unfortunately, the new year also provides an opportunity for diet culture to influence how people view their bodies and food.
Winter Break in Recovery: Make Mental Health a Priority
The picture of a nostalgic, heartwarming holiday season permeates our collective idea of what the winter season ‘should’ be. But, for many people who struggle with food, body distress, and other mental health issues, it can feel more like a nightmare. The winter season can feel isolating and stressful. Changes in routine, pressure from family and friends, school and work commitments, and beyond can feel like the perfect storm of isolating anxiety.
Five Tips for Being Home for Winter Break in Eating Disorder Recovery
The stress is winding down, but now the uncertainty of the upcoming winter break is upon you. The shifts in your predictable daily routine and the worry of how people will respond to the changes in your actions, behaviors, and body when you return home from school can be unpleasant and stressful.
How You Can Support A Loved One With an Eating Disorder Over the Holidays
The winter holidays can be a fantastic opportunity to enjoy being with family and friends. But they can also be stressful and challenging for people with eating disorders. If you or someone you love is navigating the holidays while struggling with an eating disorder, it is crucial to know how to be supportive.
10 Ways to Honor Your Authentic Health This Holiday Season (Instead of Dieting)
The new year is right around the corner, and with it comes our culture’s fixation on resolutions. While new year’s resolutions aren’t explicitly bad, the overwhelming messaging behind resolutions creates pressure to change your body size, shape, eating habits, and lifestyle, emphasizing your value defined by your appearance.
Ways to Remove Morality from Food Over the Holidays
While the holidays can be filled with an abundance of joy, they can also be one of the most challenging times if you struggle with your relationship with food. Throughout the holiday season, you may be surrounded by different foods than you are typically exposed to and eating in settings outside of your day-to-day life.