The Voice

Hearing your eating disorder voice become louder can make you feel stuck and out of control in your own body. This can be immensely difficult if you’re restricting, bingeing, or involved in compensatory behaviors. Being able to find strength and power within...

Building Eating Disorder Awareness: One School at a Time

Building Eating Disorder Awareness: One School at a Time Schools should be a safe place for students to learn and explore, and a setting where information shared is accurate and trustworthy. Teachers, staff & coaches are authority figures whose role evokes and...

Rediscovering Movement: Exercise as Joy in Eating Disorder Recovery

Rediscovering Movement: Exercise as Joy in Eating Disorder Recovery   BLF: Your Journey, Your Pace BLF—Bottom Line First, a gem I borrowed from a priest’s homily. Here’s mine: every person’s recovery and exercise journey is uniquely theirs, shaped by their own rhythm...

Recovery Puzzle Pieces

Recovery Puzzle Pieces Happy Social Work Month to everyone that celebrates! In celebrating this month, I want to highlight an important connection that is often overlooked between social workers and eating disorder treatment. I often see eating disorder treatment as a...

This February, Celebrate Recovery

This February, Celebrate Recovery   February: the month of Valentine’s Day, the quintessential Hallmark holiday. As adults, time to express love and affection through gift-giving, whether to a romantic partner, child, parent, or friend. But as kids, Valentine’s...