Category: eating disorders

Rachael Farrokh is seeking treatment for her eating disorder before it’s too late.

VIDEO: ‘Arrested Development’ Star Speaks Out on Eating Disorder

Portia de Rossi discusses the shame of struggling with bulimia since age 12.

This is one person’s story; everyone will have unique experiences on their own path to recovery and beyond. Some stories may mention eating disorder thoughts, behaviors or symptom use. Please use your own discretion. And speak with your therapist when needed.By Sylvie Mae BaldwinI remember telling my therapist, “I don’t think full eating disorder recovery is actually possible.” Now, I wasn’t hesitant or unsure that eating disorder treatment was for me – I honestly wanted to get better. I simply couldn’t imagine a day free of compulsive thoughts – “don’t think about food…you aren’t hungry…you just ate…you don’t need to eat…”But, low and behold, there did come a time, when…after much hard work…I stopped having disordered thoughts. I no

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By Dr. Mark Warren Anyone with an eating disorder has been asked at some point or another “Why don’t you just eat?” Most likely if you have an eating disorder you have asked yourself the same question. You might wonder “Why is eating so hard for me when it seems to be so easy for everyone else?” On one level the answer to this is incredibly simple, and on another level incredibly complicated. The simple level is biology. Having an eating disorder means having neurological or neuroanatomical organization of your brain that creates enormous barriers to eating normally. These barriers include visual and sensory distortions, impacts on reward centers and executive organization of the brain, distortions of senses of fullness and hunger, and over evaluation

Today’s practice is a standing warrior series. Some benefits of each pose in the series are:  Standing at Attention/ Mt. Pose Benefits: can create a sense of grounding and centering. Can increase focus, improve balance and draw your awareness inward. Warrior II Benefits: can increase focus, strength, and presence. Can create an opportunity to track the fluctuations of the mind and a possibility to invite the breath to calm the mind. Extended Side Angle- Variation Benefits: energizing, strengthening, grounding, heart opener. Reverse Warrior Benefits: stretches sides of torso and arms, opens the hips, strengthening, opening.       Click here to download a printable PDF of this practice.

Transgender and non-transgender lesbian, gay and bisexual students are at greater risk for eating disorders, finds a new study. The study used data from the American College Health Association–National College Health Assessment, a survey of 289,024 students from 223 U.S. universities. Researchers found that the rates of self-reported eating disorders were highest in transgender people. Heterosexual men had the lowest rates.