How To Practice Neuroplasticity And Rewiring In Recovery

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.

How to Urge Surf and understand Eating Disorder Behaviors

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.

Body Image Activity: Letters to and From Your Body to Build Healthy Communication

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.

10 Characteristics of People with Positive Body Image

Body image research is DEFINITELY lacking but we do have an understanding based on the research that tells us about why some people have better body image than others and what qualities, skills, components they have that allow them to have a healthier, more positive relationship with their body.

What is binge eating? How do I stop it?

Oftentimes people do not recognize that their binge episodes are related to under-eating throughout the day. When that happens, they can feel shame associated with misunderstanding their body and their current seemingly “uncontrolled” behavior around food. Learn more about binge eating!

Help! My child is struggling with food, what can I do?

Childhood and adolescence is a time of rapid growth and development, oftentimes involving many new experiences, life stressors, and increasing independence. There are many factors that can contribute to a child struggling with food. Learn more here and read this new blog post!

How do I recover from my eating disorder? Where do I start?

Recovery is out there and it is possible. If you find that you are struggling with an eating disorder, it is important that you seek the help you deserve. Eating disorders are real and life-threatening illnesses that require immediate treatment and you are more than deserving of recovery and a healthy relationship with food and body.

What Happened to You

Healing your shame is key in healing your relationship with food and your body. It starts with changing the question “what’s wrong with me??” to “what happened to you?” When we make that simple shift, grace enters the room. What happened to you offers explanations, not excuses. It opens the gate to understanding. Understanding gives us knowledge, even in the most seemingly “irrational” situations. Your fear and your pain is not senseless. It may not seem fitting for the situation, and that just means we have more to learn.

How to Bring Gentleness into your Yoga Practice

If you’re working on healing your relationship with food or your body, yoga can be a powerful tool to support connecting with your body and breath and exploring a different form of movement. The Sanskrit terms sthira and sukha means steadiness and ease.

Unhelpful Thinking Styles: Eating Disorder Recovery

Identifying the unhelpful thinking styles that you may use in relation to how you feel or think about food is a good way to develop a more respectful and trusting relationship with food. Dive deeper into understanding how these unhelpful ways of thinking may be affecting your relationship with food and body. Download your Unhelpful Thinking Styles: Food Edition Journal!