Eating Disorders and Body Image
Group Therapy for Treatment of Eating Disorders and
Body Image for People Over the Age of 30 available now!
Many people deal with disordered eating, eating disorders or negative body image for years before getting help. They think “This isn’t that bad, I can stop whenever I want to”, “I’ll stop once I meet my goal weight”, or “I’m not as sick as other people, this just isn’t a big deal” and yet, often people can’t stop the behaviors they are using to cope with their feelings about food and their bodies. Or they feel sad, frustrated or empty even when the changes happen and they find those changes just aren’t enough. Their mind is driving them to do more, take it further, just do a bit more. The inner voice is never satisfied, never happy with how you look or what you did and is always demanding more. No matter how successful you may be in other areas of your life, you never quite feel good enough.
Eating disorders often serve some purpose in your life, even if that purpose is not initially clear. Sometimes it’s to feel a sense of control, to feel successful, to have a purpose, to be “the healthy one”, to get comfort or attention. No matter how the eating disorder serves you initially, most people find that eventually they feel they are having to serve the eating disorder and the negative thoughts that pervade their brain about their bodies and their worth. Work harder, go faster, do more until you are left exhausted, lonely, and sad.
We believe people can and do get better from eating disorders and can completely recover from the tyranny that food and weight can have over their lives. We believe everyone can learn to love themself and their body--at any size, shape or weight-- and that we can all work to make peace with food. We work from two main approaches: Health at Every Size (HAES) and Intuitive Eating. We focus on helping people develop a body neutral mentality. We believe you can learn to trust your body to take care of yourself and feed yourself appropriately and in a healthy way without restriction, guilt or shame.
Treatments available for:
Anorexia
Bulimia
Binge Eating
Over exercising
Orthorexia
Therapy can help you to:
Learn healthy coping mechanisms
Learn to regulate and manage your emotions
Uncover and cope with the issues underlying your eating disorder
Improve your relationships, increase healthy communication and assertiveness
Learn from relapses
Decrease damaging perfectionism
Combat pressures from peers and social media
Improve your body image
Learn to love and take care of your body exactly as it is
Beneficial Client Resources:
National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) www.nationaleatingdisorders.org
National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD) http://www.anad.org/
Eating disorder books/resources:
Intuitive eating by Tribole and Resch
The f*ck it diet by Dooner
Body respect: What conventional health books get wrong, leave out, or just fail to understand about weight by Bacon By bacon
Life without Ed: How one woman declared independence from her eating disorder and how you can too by Schaefer and Rutledge
The body is not an apology by Taylor
Maintenance Phase podcast by Michael Hobbes and Aubrey gordon
FoodPsych podcast by harrison
The body is not an apology website
Podcasts with Isabel Foxen Duke
PODCAST with ISabel Foxen Duke and Annie sophie Reinhardt on trusting your instincts about food
Podcast on radical self-love with Brene Brown and Sonya Renee Taylor