By Center for Change Guest Author Eating disorders are often a silent disease, hidden in the shadows and closets of life. Unfortunately, however hard someone tries to keep it secret…
7 Resolutions Worth Keeping in the New Year
By Christa Banister After all the holiday fanfare has drawn to a close and the calendar flips to January, it’s natural to start reflecting — dreaming even — about what…
When Holidays Aren’t the Most Wonderful Time of Year
by Quinn Nystrom In our American culture, I think it’s easy to buy into the sense that holidays should be the most joyful and wonderful time of year. But then…
Living Strong Through Yoga: Hope for Healing from Eating Disorders
By Christa Banister While it’s occasionally been dismissed as a little too hippy-dippy for some or decidedly low-impact for others, it’s no secret that yoga has a huge number of…
Handling the Holidays Through Recovery
It’s the day after Halloween and you’ve managed to avoid the bags of leftover candy for now. Then you turn on the radio, and before you can manage to change…
Too Much of a Good Thing: How to Recognize an Exercise Addiction
By: Cindy Coloma Many of us prefer to start our day with exercise. Taking care of our health is important, and exercise undeniably plays a crucial role. According to the…
The Very Real Eating Disorder You’ve Never Heard Of: Explaining OSFED
By: Taylor Davis When most people hear the term “eating disorder,” they think of women who either don’t eat at all or regularly binge eat and purge. While clinical anorexia…
Think Your Friend May Have an Eating Disorder? Here’s What You Can Do
By Stephanie Thomas Some situations in life are just hard. There’s no prettying them up, no filter to cover the pain and no looking without seeing. When you suspect a…
BED: The Forgotten Eating Disorder
By Wesley H. Gallagher Over the past several years, eating disorders have gained much needed exposure as real and often life-threatening health conditions. Thin is no longer “in,” as more…
Why Therapists Ask About Your Family
By Kathryn Millán, LPC/MHSP Eating disorders are complicated conditions that quickly take over an individual’s life. When obsessive anxiety about food and body appearance begin, daily thoughts and activities often…
Men Have Eating Disorders Too
By Tom Tjornehoj “Bulimia destroyed my body when I mixed it with drugs and alcohol for 17 years,” shares MK at HeroesInRecovery.com. “My second DUI and my [failing] health made…
How Does Media Impact Body Image and Eating Disorder Rates?
By Patti Richards The World of Psychology describes body image as the way a person perceives herself when she looks in the mirror. In today’s media culture, there are more…
What We Refuse to Work On Is Working On Us
Okay, this is how life works: It’s a surprise party, and the invites are in the mail. What you thought was going to come knocking or would never arrive at…
The Double-Standard of Mental Illness and Physical Illness
by Quinn Nystrom I was flying home from attending my very first National Eating Disorders Awareness (NEDA) Conference in Washington, D.C. It was sitting in those sessions that I got…
Wrestling with Failure & Turning it into Positive Action
by Quinn Nystrom I struggled since the age of 12 with an eating disorder and a year later was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. I didn’t seek treatment for the…
3 Ways to Practice Fearlessness in Recovery
By Nikki Rollo, PhD, LMFT Sometimes even just the word “fear” can be enough to cause a knot in our stomachs and send a shiver up and down our spines….
The Importance of Telling Our Story
By: Quinn Nystrom I had been so comfortable in the past to stand up in front of an audience and tell my story of living with type 1 diabetes. I…
Five Steps to Forgiving Yourself: An Essential Practice On the Recovery Journey (part 2)
I have chosen to shower myself in forgiveness. I have decided to bathe myself in absolutely breathtaking love.-Alison Malee We all make mistakes. Yep, It’s true. Every last one of…
Five Ways to Find Inner Peace in the Recovery Process
Peace has been on my mind a lot lately. Whenever we move into another holiday season, I think about how we can increase peace in the world, in our country,…
Recovery-minded Living
We often feel motivated after inspiring experiences—finishing a good book, hearing a rousing speech, taking part in service, having a great therapy session, etc. However, at times these feelings fade…
Eating Disorders and Diabetes
Each November brings extra attention to diabetes and the tens of millions of people affected by it. Did you know women and girls with type 1 diabetes are at increased…
Why Be Mindful?
When I first teach mindfulness, I often get initial resistance from clients. I have heard responses such as “I can’t do it. I’m too anxious” or “I don’t see the…
Strong Enough to be Broken
In today’s society we are told that we have to be unbreakable. We have to be iron men and iron women. To show any weakness or to have anything negative…
Made for Something More
As women in the modern world, we are constantly being measured up to society’s expectations. We are taught from the time we are young that as we strive to be…
Don’t Let Your Struggles Define You
We all have something in our lives that is hard for us to get through. For some it may be an addiction to drugs, alcohol or maybe an eating disorder. …
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