Everyday Health Insurance Challenges and What You Can Do To Overcome Them

Reposted from Eating Disorder Law Blog! Challenge # 1: Understanding your policy                                                                                                     [...]

Real Deal Role Model: Lisa Kantor, Attorney Who Fights For Women’s Health

Part of the mission of the Real Deal website is to offer empowering messages, facts and research about body image, media literacy and self-care, but also to provide role models for women — courageous pioneers who make a difference, who share their voices, who help others.  This month’s Real Deal Role Model is Lisa Kantor [...]

Extraordinary Measures to Pay for Eating Disorder Treatment

Re-posted from Kantor & Kantor Eating Disorder Law Blog: http://www.kantorlaw.net/Eating_Disorder_Blog.aspx Annie Seal is a dedicated advocate to insurance reform and eating disorder recovery, although this hasn’t always been her calling.  Annie’s daughter recovered from an eating disorder, but not without a battle from their insurance company.  This is her story, and the story of countless [...]

Reclaim Your Body, Grow Into Your Edges, Change The World

There are moments in life where the light bulb goes off and suddenly a thousand tiny dots are connected in the flash of an instant.  This moment happened for me over the weekend at BEDA’s 2013 conference in Bethesda, Maryland, as I sat and listened to Carol Munter speak.  I had only ever heard of [...]

Eating Disorders Research

Given that it is national Eating Disorders Awareness Week (EDAW) here in the USA I’m doing my part to raise awareness of so many of the issues. A big one is Eating Disorders Research…or the lack thereof. We have some wonderful people around the world doing some fantastic work in the field and for those [...]

BODY EMPOWERMENT – “EDs = Social Justice Cause”

As part of the weekly Wednesday posting of my ongoing YouTube series “Body Empowerment,” here’s “EDs = Social Justice Cause (Body Empowerment 50)” originally posted January 16, 2012, on YouTube.com by Caroline Rothstein. Check it out! About BODY EMPOWERMENT: Founded in 2008, “Body Empowerment” is hosted and produced by NYC-based writer, performer, and eating disorder recovery advocate Caroline Rothstein. [...]

Faith in NYC

Join NORMAL nonprofit, Poetic Theater Productions and Timberline Knolls for a stunning one-woman spoken word poetry event faith written and performed by Caroline Rothstein Saturday, January 26, 2013 8pm New York City (download release here)   Written and performed by Caroline Rothstein Directed by Alex Mallory “Me, drowning in my flannel pajama pants, searching for [...]

Size Bullying IS Bullying, thank you Jennifer for fighting back!

If no one has ever criticized you for your weight, body shape or size you may not know that this was bullying. If you have never been yelled at by a bunch of teenage boys in a pickup truck as you were going for an evening walk, you may not realize this was bullying. If [...]

Use Your Voice to End Political Bullying of Women

Yesterday The New York Times printed that Republicans approved platform language calling for a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion with no explicit exceptions for cases of rape or incest. What does this mean for women? According to Republicans: Our lives are not valued, our voices not respected, our choices are not our own.  It also means [...]

Fighting Stigma with Science

“Fighting Stigma with Science” At the forefront of my mission through the Hope Network is to remove the stigma from eating disorders and to raise money for eating disorder research—an area that is historically overlooked and underfunded. Dr. Cynthia M. Bulik, Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, shares a similar goal, [...]

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