Seeking to understand a loved one who is experiencing an eating disorder (ED) is an incredible act of love. It can be challenging and confusing, regardless of where the person is in the process. The road to recovery can be long and arduous, but your continued support is crucial to the success of the person experiencing the illness.
At the age of only four-years-old, I heard a voice in my head that said, “You’re fat. You aren’t good enough.” That voice was my eating disorder (aka “Ed”). I was 22-years-old before someone finally told me that I didn’t have to listen to that negative, self-critical voice anymore. While my eating disorder began as […]
If you asked yourself the question, “What does it mean to be healthy?”, what are the first things to come to mind? If how much you weigh was one of the first things to pop in your head, you are not alone. For decades, weight has been a defining factor of health, but why? In […]
In our digital age of social media and consumerism, we are inundated with an overwhelming amount of noise from every direction. Advertisements pushing products pour out from everywhere you look, and the drive to do and accomplish more than ever is at an all-time high. Many individuals in America are suffering from feelings of being […]