Doing Whatever It Takes to Recover
July 9, 2012 by Karen Koenig
Filed under Anorexia, Athletes, Binge Eating, Body Image, Bulimia, Disordered Eating, Eating Disorders, EDNOS, Empowerment, Featured, Healthy Coping, Healthy Eating, Intuitive Eating, Loving Your Body, Males with Eating Disorders, Mindfulness, Recovery, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion
I was talking to a new client recently who mentioned that she’d sought me out as an eating coach in part because of what she’d heard me say on a podcast: I attributed my success to the fact that I would have done anything effective and healthy to recover from my eating problems. Can you [...]
Therapy vs. Therapeutic (Art)
April 10, 2012 by Caroline Rothstein
Filed under Expressive Arts, Featured, Mental Health, Recovery, Treatment, Wellness, Writing and Poetry
There is a distinct difference between therapy and therapeutic arts. Art can be healing, art can be cathartic, art can deeply reinvigorate a wounded and traumatized spirit, but art cannot single-handedly eliminate trauma or eradicate its scars. That, is the work of treatment, rehabilitation, and help. Therapy can be an artist’s most sacred tool, most [...]
Amazing Book – “goodbye ed, hello me”
April 9, 2010 by MamaV
Filed under Binge Eating
I just got done reading a really great book about recovering from an eating disorder and learning to fall back in love with life and yourself. It’s called “goodbye ed, hello me” by Jenni Schaefer, a recovered anorexic and bulimic. (Ed was her way of referring to eating disorder in the third person.) Even if [...]
