Mental Holocaust
January 5, 2013 by Angela Mensah
Filed under Body Image
I am currently reading Healthy Selfitude by NORMAL President Robyn Hussa and this month I am more aware of the shift toward mindfulness but also realize that as an African American that grew up in the Protestant church how foreign this concept may come across. I would like to speak to you as you consider […]
Aging and Eating Disorders
July 18, 2012 by Becky Henry
Filed under Anorexia, Binge Eating, Bulimia, Disordered Eating, Eating Disorders, EDNOS, Fat Acceptance, Featured, Loving Your Body, Males with Eating Disorders, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance
Our society’s obsession with looking and staying young has exploded, but unfortunately there is no elixir of everlasting youth to stop our clocks from ticking. The result of this youth-crazed culture is poor self-esteem and body-esteem for aging women. Cindy Bulik, Director of the eating disorder program at University of Carolina, was recently featured on […]
Weighing In: The Yay! Scale
June 12, 2012 by Marsha Hudnall
Filed under Body Image, Fat Talk, Featured, HAES, Livin in the Moment, Loving Your Body, Obesity, Self-Acceptance, Weight Stigma, Wellness
Weighing ourselves. It’s an activity fraught with anxiety for many (most?) women. That’s understandable as we’ve been raised to measure our worth by what we weigh. So when we get on the scale, if it doesn’t tell us what we want, whatever mood we were in is destined to head downhill. Knowing our weight can […]
Nutrition and Eating Disorders: A Shared Journey
March 3, 2012 by Sondra Kronberg
Filed under Eating Disorders, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Healthy Eating, Intuitive Eating, Loving Your Body, Mindfulness, Nutrition, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care
My perception of nutritional wellness, nutritionists and the role of nutrition in recovering from an eating disorder has been a progression, a shared journey. Early in my practice, armed with scientific training and medical model concepts, I was geared up for providing patients with what I have come to call the “quick fix.” Having acquired […]
What is body image and how can it be improved?
February 21, 2012 by Robyn Hussa Farrell
Filed under Body Image, Featured, HAES, Loving Your Body, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion
To anyone else Melissa would appear to have a “perfect” body, svelte, athletic. But to this gymnast from Elkins Park, Pa. her body is anything but perfect. “I look in the mirror and all I see is fat. Fat arms, legs. I do what I can to try to change my body, but am always […]
ED 101 — A Film About Eating Disorders
November 27, 2011 by Robyn Hussa Farrell
Filed under Anorexia, Athletes, Binge Eating, Bulimia, Disordered Eating, Eating Disorders, EDNOS, Expressive Arts, Males with Eating Disorders, Mental Health, Recovery
This is our first post from Robyn Hussa, President of Normal in Schools (NIS). She started NIS driven to bring to our schools education about eating disorder through theater (or as Robyn would say “theatre” but I’m not so hip to the art scene). We all think we know everything about eating disorders, after all we are suffers, […]
Women’s midlife crisis – eating disorders
August 1, 2011 by MamaV
Filed under Eating Disorders
Recent years has brought at 42% increase of eating disorders in women in their 30s, 40s and 50s. I found this Today Show segment really informative, but sadly not surprising. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Blog this!Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on FacebookShare on LinkedinShare on Posterousshare via […]
Pathological dieting: precursor to eating disorders
August 15, 2010 by Robyn Hussa Farrell
Filed under Dieting, Eating Disorders, Featured
This guest post provided by Heidi_PsyD from http://www.examiner.com/eating-disorder-in-philadelphia/heidi-dalzell The statistics are eye opening: one out of three women and one out of four men are on a diet at any given time. Maybe not such a surprise in our weight-obsessed culture of thinness. This mentality has spawned a diet industry with liquids, supplements, books and […]
How did you recover from your eating disorder?
I am often asked to tell this story, and I’d like to hear yours. Background information on my modeling-hell past life. Want more information on eating disorders and medication? See here [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx1yP-KgadA] Blog this!Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on FacebookShare on LinkedinShare on Posterousshare via RedditShare with StumblersShare on technoratiTumblr itTweet about itSubscribe to the […]
