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How To Improve Body Image
How do I treat body image issues? It’s often the last thing to improve in eating disorder recovery, and one of the most difficult things to treat. In this article I will explore what body image is and how you can take simple steps towards improving yours. I also discuss my own history with body image and the way my journey informs my work with clients.
Can You Fully Recover From an Eating Disorder?
YES. Yes, you can fully recover from an eating disorder. I feel a lot of dismay when someone says to me; “You know how you can never really recover from an eating disorder?” as if it’s a known fact. The person is generally pretty taken aback when I explain that I don’t agree. Learn more about full eating disorder recovery in San Francisco, California with therapist Megan Y. Bruce, LCSW.
Why Emotions Are the Key To Eating Disorder Recovery
Eating disorders are not about vanity— they’re strategies to deal with overwhelming emotions. When you can allow all of your emotions, the eating disorder loses it’s function and fades away. Sustainable recovery is about developing the capacity to feel, not just eat.
Treating Eating Disorders: 5 Best Practice Strategies
I wanted to share my list of things to do to build and rapport and trust when helping someone recover from an eating disorder. This is also helpful to read if you are a parent or loved one of someone with an eating disorder and you want to learn more about how to be helpful. So much of this advice is not intuitive for supporters, but can make all the difference in connecting with the person struggling.
What Causes Eating Disorders?
If you’re trying to understand what causes eating disorders, you’re not alone. While we think of eating disorders as a modern phenomenon– and at the explosive rates we see them at today they certainly are– they are also brain based diseases that existed long before anyone considered being thin aspirational.