Eating Wisdom Blog
Why Do I Have Constant Food Thoughts? Understanding the Root Cause
If it feels like your brain never stops circling back to food, it’s not a lack of willpower. Here's what constant food thoughts actually mean, and what helps.
Levels of Treatment for Eating Disorders
Understanding the levels of treatment for eating disorders — from outpatient to residential — and how to choose the right support for lasting recovery.
Your Child’s Weight: 8 Moments That Matter More Than You Think
Everyday comments about food and bodies might be influencing your child’s ability to manage their eating and weight. Find out what they are—and what to do instead to raise confident, body-trusting children.
Diet Culture Teaches Us To Fear Eating: Reclaim Your Birthright as an Eater
Diet culture taught us to mistrust our bodies. But what if we chose reverence and grace over control and guilt?.
Kids, Eating and Weight: What the Research Is Telling Us
Discover what the research says about your child’s weight, and health—and why our current approaches may be doing more harm than good.
When Healing Feels Impossible: Recovering from Food and Body Struggles
Sometimes you may want to recover — and sometimes you may not want to. Ambivalence is normal. You don’t have to be all-in to begin.
Compulsive Exercise: Are You Overdoing It?
Men and women are presenting to counseling in increasing numbers--not because they want to slow down their exercise, but because something is interfering with it. If these exercisers were willing to take a look at what they are doing, they would find that their activity is not about performance or reshaping their bodies, but about dealing with life. They would find exercise is essential to them to provide a feeling of mental well-being, to release their tension and anger, and even relieve anxiety and depression. They also would find they have few other strategies to cope with these feelings.
When Someone You Know Is Suffering from an Eating Disorder
The ongoing support of a spouse, parent, sibling, or friend is one of the most valuable tools a person with an eating disorder eating can have. This article focuses on helping someone with bulimia, but the article can apply to helping someone with anorexia, binge eating disorder and emotional eating as well.
Overview of Eating Disorders and Treatment
Understand anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, ARFID, and OSFED, how treatment helps, and why you don’t need to wait until things get worse to seek help.
Overview of Disordered Eating
Disordered eating occurs when a person's attitudes about food, eating, exercise, weight and body size or shape causes them to have rigid eating and/or exercise habits that interfere with their health, happiness or safety. Learn about the different forms of disordered eating.
Why Hunger Can Feel Terrifying And What To Do About It
Discover how paying attention (instead of pushing it away) can calm cravings and guide you back to food peace.
Somatic Experiencing to Heal Emotional Eating
Somatic therapy can help calm and heal emotional eating, compulsive eating, and even when you feel like you just can’t quit eating. Karin is trained in a highly specialized form of somatic therapy called Somatic Experiencing, which focuses on becoming attuned to and understanding subtle body sensation in a way that the body can release stress and even past traumas.