Supporting someone with an eating disorder can be both challenging and deeply rewarding. Loved ones—whether family members, friends, or partners—play a crucial role in the recovery process. They provide emotional support, encouragement, and often serve as a grounding force during difficult times. However, it’s important to recognize that supporting someone in recovery requires knowledge, patience, and boundaries.
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One of the most difficult aspects of eating disorder recovery is navigating social situations—whether it's family gatherings, eating out with friends, or holiday celebrations. Food is often at the center of social interaction, and for someone recovering from an eating disorder, these situations can feel overwhelming and anxiety-provoking. The pressure to conform to social expectations around food, appearance, and behavior can trigger feelings of shame or insecurity.
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“Clean eating” has become a popular way to improve health. The focus is on whole, unprocessed foods and avoiding anything “artificial” or “junk.” It seems like a straightforward way to adopt healthier habits. However, when clean eating becomes a rigid set of rules, it can lead to disordered eating. Recognize the signs of disordered eating and repair your relationship with food with outpatient nutrition therapy.
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Manage food obsession so you can recover from anorexia, bulimia, BED, orthorexia, and disordered eating. Improve your relationship with food and body. Get online, outpatient nutrition therapy with dietitians from Colorado and Washington.
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Breaking free from body checking is possible, but it takes time, intention, and support. Here are actionable steps to help you reduce this behavior and focus on building a healthier relationship with your body.
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Body checking is a behavior many people engage in, often subconsciously, as a way to monitor or assess their physical appearance. While it may seem harmless or routine, body checking can have a significant emotional and mental toll, particularly for those with body image concerns or eating disorders.
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The holiday season can be a magical time filled with celebrations, connection, and joy. But for those in eating disorder recovery, it can also bring unique challenges—large family meals, diet talk, and an overwhelming focus on food and appearance. If this resonates with you, know that you’re not alone, and there are ways to navigate this season with compassion and confidence.
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Meal prep is commonly suggested as a way to support healthy eating habits, but for those navigating eating disorder recovery, it can feel challenging or anxiety-inducing. The goal of meal prep in recovery isn’t perfection—it’s about reducing stress around food choices and ensuring you have nourishing options available when you need them. Here’s how to approach meal prep in a way that supports recovery.
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Eating disorders are complex, and the ways they evolve or change over time can be difficult to understand. One of the most common concerns is whether someone with anorexia can develop other eating disorders, like binge eating or bulimia, or if their behaviors might shift in unexpected ways. This is an important topic to explore, especially since eating disorders don’t always stay static.
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Neuroplasticity is the property of the brain that enables it to change its own structure and functioning in response to activity and mental experience. Brain cells are able to constantly communicate electrically with one another and form and re-form new connections, moment by moment...a unique kind of healing. The good news for recovery is that when we start to think, feel, and do things differently, we carve out a new road.
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As part of breaking the cycle of acting on ED behaviors in response to negative body image, you can learn skills to help tolerate urges for eating disorder behaviors.
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Your relationship with your body and your body’s relationship with yourself is just that- a relationship. In relationships, what we need is an understanding, an ability to listen to one each, an ability to understand and mend, to ask each other what you both need.
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