Is diet culture actually serving women today, or is it causing more damage than good? Challenging diet culture is necessary if we desire, individually as well as collectively, to achieve the goal of empowering women toward greater self-love and acceptance.
It’s time we start breaking the silence on eating disorders by talking about their prevalence, what drives them, symptomology, physical and mental health risks, and how we can help someone who is battling one.
Fortunately, medications for eating disorders have been successful in treating bulimia and binge eating disorder; however, there is still no proven drug therapy for anorexia. Why not? The answer is complex.
What does good accountability look like in recovery? Should you find a group, a friend, someone else in recovery to help keep you accountable? And what makes a good accountability partner?
Many women with anorexia and bulimia deny that they have an eating disorder. The desire to become pregnant or the pregnancy itself does not alter this secrecy.