Evidence Based Treatment is Flexible and Compassionate: DBT and FBT for Eating Disorders
The most fundamental question in treating eating disorders is “What works?” Eating disorders are so painful and can be so fatal; we want to use the treatment that has the best chance of giving our cli...
28 Apr 20251h 13min
Therapists have boundaries too: A conversation about treatment contracts and ultimatums
What happens when someone with a high acuity eating disorder needs more support than can be provided in outpatient settings, but refuses a higher level of care?Considering the high mortality rate of e...
17 Apr 202558min
Your eating disorder is not your enemy: Understanding embodied recovery
What is an eating disorder? We know it can involve symptoms such as food restriction, binge eating, or purging behaviors. But what underlies these behaviors? What causes an eating disorder, and how do...
10 Apr 20251h 10min
The Reality of Living with Dissociative Identity Disorder
If you’ve had a client who has been through multiple treatments, tried countless medications, received diagnosis after diagnosis—bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, depression, eating d...
3 Apr 20251h 5min
Weight loss didn’t cure my PCOS
Does weight affect health?For many years, the scientific and medical communities assumed the answer to this question as an obvious yes. After all, studies show correlations between higher BMI (body ma...
31 Mars 20251h 6min
Eating Disorders Happen in Mid-Life Too
There’s a stereotype that eating disorders are a young woman’s illness. Many treatment centers cater primarily to young people, and even adult treatment centers often have a predominantly young adult ...
20 Mars 20251h
Coaching, Spirituality, & Alternative Paths to Healing
Periodically, I come across social media posts or comments questioning the legitimacy of work by a non-credentialed author, healer, or influencer. These questions stem from the fact that, as mental he...
13 Mars 202558min
I want to help people not have to suffer in the way I did: A Dietitian's Journey from Restrictive Dieting to Intuitive Eating
As we learn and grow, we also begin to recognize the inadequacies of what we once believed. For healthcare professionals, this realization comes with the added weight of knowing that our past lack of ...
6 Mars 202556min
