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A Word about the "Food Police": Toward a New Vocabulary in Eating Disorders Recovery by Dr. Sari Shepphird Doctor of Philosophy

Posted Thu 02 Apr 2009 5:59pm Every now and again in eating disorders work, we need to expand our vocabularies. Sometimes, patients come to appointments with new terms that we need to have defined for us, such as "sham eating", "thinspiration", and "Ana Boot camp". In addition, as health-care professionals, we need to stay abreast of new findings that may expand or alter o ... Read on »

Normal Eating and Creating Mindset Shifts for Full Eating Disorder Recovery by helpfored Posted Tue 27 Sep 2011 11:24am It is Q+A Tuesday and today we have a great question regarding eating normally and gaining weight. Now this is certainly a concern that anyone with an eating disorder has – it is probably the major fear when it comes to embarking on “normal eating” and letting go of the eating disorder behaviors. The question comes from our reader Ale ... Read on »

17 Eating Disorder Recovery Tips You Can Use Right Now by helpfored Posted Mon 25 Apr 2011 2:20am Here are some of my favorite eating disorder recovery tips that I have found useful. They are all simple and can be implemented immediately. Eating Disorder Recovery tips: Take the focus off food You will always be taken care of, there is enough food Don’t read online diets or food journals Visualize ... Read on »

17 Eating Disorder Recovery Refresher Tips by helpfored Posted Thu 28 Jul 2011 5:17pm I have been creating some fabulous programs for you guys that I know you will love. We have videos coming up, free podcast, Teleseminars, online workshops, group sessions, launching a social media site for you to all interact and post questions, write to me and connect with each other. I will moderate and I am going to ask you to foll ... Read on »

How Long Does Eating Disorder Recovery Take? by helpfored Posted Sun 12 Dec 2010 8:38am For anyone who is feeling discouraged about their recovery progress, please remember that new habits take time to become ingrained into our life. It is easy to slip into the negative thinking that “this just isn’t working” – but that is not the case. There is a great article on Zen Habits about 29 Ways to Successfully Ingrain a Behavi ... Read on »

eating disorder recovery by Green Food, Green Thumb, High Heels Posted Fri 08 Jul 2011 1:07am I know I don't talk about this a lot, but one of my inspirations for starting my blog was my journey and recovery through an eating disorder when I was a teenager. You can read about my story here on my blog , or you can check out an article of mine that was published recently in What's Up Ocala and posted on their website here . Yay! I've been p ... Read on »

Goal Setting to Achieve Eating Disorder Recovery by helpfored Posted Tue 18 Jan 2011 8:59am One of the main tools that I used to recover from an eating disorder was goal setting and visualizing my ideal eating disorder recovery. I had a goal of being a normal eater and I imagined it very clearly, as if it were already true. Even though I was not recovered at that time, I kept focusing on the goal as if it were already my rea ... Read on »

Resourceful Interventions for Eating Disorder Recovery and Mental Health- CHECK THIS OUT! by RD 4 ED Posted Thu 31 May 2012 12:32am This morning I came across a great website that might be quite useful for many of you reading this blog! I’m not all about reinventing the wheel if something helpful is already out there for mental health and eating disorder recovery, so I figured I would just link to it. Anyhow, it is the Centre for Clinical Interventions website. I clicked on t ... Read on »

Eating Disorder Recovery is All in Your Mind by helpfored Posted Tue 28 Dec 2010 1:11pm I often get asked what it was that made the difference – what was it that finally made me recover from a 10 year battle with an eating disorder. Looking back there were many things that I tried – therapy, support groups, meditation, dance therapy and clinics, among many other therapeutic avenues. Did any of these things help? Yes and ... Read on »

Tranquil Tuesdays for Eating Disorder Recovery! by Greta Gleissner, LMSW Health Maven

Posted Tue 16 Apr 2013 5:04pm “Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth” ― Pema Chödrön Fear is tough. Fear is emotionally paralyzing. Fear keeps one stuck. Fear, particularly of the unknown, is one of the major barriers in eating disorder recovery. It is difficult to trust in the process, to take that blind leap of faith that life on the ... Read on »