Preparing for the Holidays in Eating Disorder Recovery
Getting through the holiday season with an eating disorder can be debilitating. The weeks approaching the holidays are often more nerve-wracking than anything else. While one day or dinner does not define your recovery state, your actions in the weeks preceding the holidays are critical in your journey.
Five Tips for Traveling with an Eating Disorder: Holiday Edition
Traveling for the holidays can be overwhelming, especially if you experience food and body distress. One of the best ways to approach seasonal challenges is to plan ahead. Overcoming difficult experiences and situations will help you build resilience in your recovery. And, when your holiday travel plans support your recovery, you can be fully present with those in your life during this special time of year.
Avoid the Holiday Trap: Ditch Fad Diets for Genuine Wellness
It’s no secret that the holiday season quickly leads into the New Year. Although you may do your best to savor this festive season, the “fresh start” of the upcoming year looms on the horizon. This usually brings with it a sense of resolution and restarting. However, that can turn sour when the “new year, new me” mindset becomes one of pressure and stress. So, now is the time to invest in authentic self-care and genuine well-being to avoid those diet culture traps.
Fighting Diet Culture During Thanksgiving
Every November, as the leaves fall and the weather turns chilly, Thanksgiving arrives! Family and friends reunite to celebrate and reflect through homemade meals and seasonal foods. However, diet culture comments and conversations can take an unexpected seat at the table for those in recovery during the holiday season.
How to Set Boundaries & Make this Holiday Season Subtly Recovery-Focused
As November flies by, the holidays are fast approaching. And while the holidays can be a wonderful time of seasonal festivities, they can be challenging for someone struggling with or recovering from an eating disorder.
Preparing for Responding to Body Comments During the Holidays
Struggling with body image is a common experience. Body image concerns can escalate when others make body-related comments, especially from friends and family. Sadly, diet culture promotes these conversations, which can be extremely harmful if you struggle with an eating disorder or body image distress.
Five Ways To Create A Body-Neutral Holiday
You’ve seen the posts and the articles that claim the key to success is to “love yourself” and “love your body.” Those well-meaning creators boil healing down to the positive (and often toxic) message of “falling in love with yourself.” Of course, that is not bad, but for many people, getting to a place of “self-love” is difficult. So what can you do?
4 Ways to Support Your Child’s Eating Disorder Recovery in School
Going back to school with an eating disorder is daunting for students in recovery. For parents of these students, sending your child back to school can be just as nerve-wracking. Academic and social environments may not be conducive to recovery, and the urge to protect them from triggers can feel overwhelming.
5 Ways to Support A Friend in Eating Disorder Recovery
Having a support system is essential to navigating eating disorder recovery. Beyond family members and treatment teams, friends can play an important role during recovery. Not only can they give immediate support, but they can also provide a type of support that no one else can. By being nonjudgmental, empathetic, and trustworthy, a friend can greatly aid in a person’s progress in recovery.
Navigating Eating Disorder Recovery As a Parent
With Mother’s Day coming up, it is time to extend our support to all the diligent caregivers who have been navigating recovery and parenthood simultaneously. Both parenthood and eating disorder recovery can be highly isolating journeys, and both involve immense amounts of growth and change that can be burdensome to deal with alone.