BMI doesn't reveal the presence of an eating disorder. You don't have to be emaciated to be severely energy deficient. We're so insistent that body mass and food intake are linked, we're overlooking a serious artifact in our scientific research. We've done this before too.
Read moreBody Image: What Is It Good For?
What is body image really? A look at the sensory perception below the sociocultural mess that has moved it well away from its biological purpose.
Read moreEating Disorder Recovery: But I Want To Save the Animals
Here are some ideas to contemplate if you feel conflicted about eating meat and yet are equally committed to a recovery effort from an eating disorder.
Read moreIntrusive Thoughts of Self-Harm in Eating Disorders
Intrusive thoughts of harming oneself are common to all of us. However, for anxious people (eating disorders being a type of anxiety disorder at its core), intrusive thoughts of self-harm create a cascade of distress and panic that can trigger a compulsive drive to follow-through on self-harm. Thankfully, several psychoeducational treatment approaches can help.
Read moreNew Year’s Resolutions: What Needs to Be Resolved?
The word "resolve" means both to find a solution and to take a firm course of action. We're inundated with the need to take a firm course of action each New Year to bolster our status in society. Perhaps we need to consider what problems need solutions instead.
Read moreCountermoves: When a Recovery Effort Generates a New You, and They Want You to Change Back.
When your partner, family member and/or friend is getting increasingly negative and unsupportive about your effort to get to remission from an active eating disorder, what are you supposed to do?
Read moreDemanding Doctor’s Notes Won’t Work: Models in France
We need to update our sense of the so-called glamorous world of modeling and we need to understand that regulating models, instead of the industry that exploits them, only serves to reinforce the exploitation.
Read moreHappy NO-lidays! Neutralizing Fattism and Healthism at Seasonal Gatherings
Part IV: Empathy. A four-part series looking into all the ways you might neutralize the impact of pervasive fattism and healthism talk at seasonal gatherings this year.
Read moreHappy NO-lidays! Neutralizing Fattism and Healthism at Seasonal Gatherings
Part III: Bring It. A four-part series looking into all the ways you might neutralize the impact of pervasive fattism and healthism talk at seasonal gatherings this year.
Read moreHappy NO-lidays! Neutralizing Fattism and Healthism at Seasonal Gatherings
Part II: We're On Each Other's Team. A four-part series looking into all the ways you might neutralize the impact of pervasive fattism and healthism talk at seasonal gatherings this year.
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