4 Tips to Feeding Your Inner Self with Self Care
May 8, 2015 by iaedp
Filed under Body Image, Eating Disorders, Exercise, Fat Acceptance, Featured, Food Revolution, HAES, Healthy Communication, Healthy Coping, Healthy Eating, Intuitive Eating, Loving Your Body, Mindfulness, Nutrition, Prevention, Self Esteem, Self-Care, Wellness
In order to survive and create balance, start connecting with your true self. In a world of external focus where a scale determines your worth and your salary defines your success, you need to turn inward to find wellness and well-being. In order to survive and create balance, start connecting with your inner core — […]
Are Scare Tactics Causing More Harm Than Good?
April 17, 2015 by iaedp
Filed under Eating Disorders, Fat Talk, Food Revolution, HAES, Healthy Communication, Healthy Eating, Loving Your Body, Nutrition, Obesity, Orthorexia, Prevention, Self-Care, Talking To Kids, Weight Stigma, Wellness
How to live in a processed world and make right choices. Do scare tactics work? I know the new documentary Fed Up declares that scare tactics have worked for decreasing tobacco sales. Personally, I worry that scare tactics will actually contribute to more fat shaming, diet shaming and finger pointing. I was really surprised that […]
Emotional Re-Activity
November 3, 2014 by Priscilla Jadallah
Filed under Body Image, Featured, Nutrition, Recovery, Wellness
One thing I have noticed working with eating disorders is how much the emotional re-activity of someone affects their thoughts, actions and their body sensations. The eating disorder behavior whether it be through restricting, purging, over exercising, or binging is usually an emotional reaction to a triggering event. I often hear stories of people or […]
What’s Your Normal?
October 1, 2014 by Karen R. Koenig
Filed under Binge Eating, Disordered Eating, Empowerment, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Intuitive Eating, Mental Health, Recovery, Self Esteem, Self-Care
If you’re being emotionally, verbally, physically or sexually abused by your partner, you’ll likely have difficulty becoming a “normal” eater because of what you accept as “normal” in your domestic life. Several points about such misperceived normalcy were made in Time magazine (9/22/14) after the release of the video of NFL player Ray Rice beating […]
Four Reasons Why Online Revenge Isn’t Worth It
July 17, 2014 by mamaV
Filed under Featured, Healthy Communication, Healthy Coping
The Internet is becoming a cesspool of negativity. Rants, curses and cyber backstabbing are common sights for web users nowadays. Needless to say, there are also those who seek revenge from people who hurt them through the use of the Internet. If you’re going through the above mentioned scenario right now then I strongly recommend […]
How Long Does It Take to Form A Habit?
July 2, 2014 by Karen R. Koenig
Filed under Binge Eating, Disordered Eating, Healthy Coping, Healthy Eating, Intuitive Eating, Loving Your Body, Mindfulness, Recovery, Stress Management, Wellness
When you’re trying to learn new behavior, how long do you give yourself? Do you expect to become habituated after a few tries or do you believe it’ll take such a long time that you give up in despair before you even start? Here’s what one scientific study has to say about habit formation. Most […]
Media Literacy
January 7, 2013 by Angela Mensah
Filed under Body Image
Click Link Here to Watch Video Dove real body campaign Your Media Literacy is key to understanding the ways in which media media messages teach you what to think about yourself and others. So many of us would like to think that media does not have a significant impact on our thoughts and behavior but it […]
Increase Self-Esteem for Eating Disorder Recovery: Five Tips
June 3, 2012 by Joanna Poppink
Filed under Eating Disorders, Featured, Recovery, Self Esteem, Wellness
Here are five tips that can help you begin to build your self-esteem. Give them a try and see if, with practice, they bring positive changes to your outlook and behavior.