Eating out in restaurants together is a common way for friends and families to get together, celebrate occasions, or catch up. Buffets are often an appealing option when you’re trying to accommodate different food preferences. For someone in recovery from an eating disorder, the huge volume of food at buffets can be a terrifying situation. […]
Eating Disorder Recovery at College
© Syda Productions – Fotolia.com College can be an exciting adventure. This may be the first time you’re living away from home, all while you’re meeting interesting people and discovering many new ideas. If you’re also recovering from an eating disorder, here are some important ways to protect your recovery and deal with potential […]
Managing Difficult Eating Situations
For people with an eating disorder or food addiction, eating can be an emotionally charged event. There are certain eating situations that amplify this discomfort, because other people are involved. There may be relationship issues like co-dependency, or unhealthy patterns like mind reading, or fear and anxiety of eating out in the open. Some people […]
Hyde Park Counseling Center – Residential Treatment in Tampa
A residential treatment center located in a complex of Victorian homes – it’s a match made in heaven for a counseling center located in a big old house like White Picket Fence. I recently returned to the Hyde Park Counseling Center in Tampa and had a visit with Clinical Director Louise Wallowitz. On previous trips […]
Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center Near Chicago
In order to offer resources and options to the clients at White Picket Fence Counseling Center, I regularly visit treatment centers all over the country. This way I can learn about what they offer, tell them more about our center, and build relationships with professionals who are equally committed to helping people recover from eating […]
The Recovery Village Treatment Center in Florida
At White Picket Fence we are grateful to have developed relationships with many excellent treatments centers around the country, many of those I’ve visited recently. June 3rd marked the opening of a treatment center that is very close to us here in Winter Park. The Recovery Village is set in a beautiful town called Umatilla, […]
What to Expect at a Yoga Therapy Group
The yoga therapy program at the White Picket Fence Counseling Center is a powerful combination of traditional yoga with a therapeutic approach that specifically addresses body image issues as a result of an eating disorder or food addiction. (There is another article here with more information about how the principles of yoga can help heal […]
Feedback and Self-Esteem
Author and speaker Brene Brown talks about how shame stops us from speaking up for ourselves. Shame can also trigger overeating, undereating, body image obsession, and feeling like you’re worth less than other people. These harmful behaviors then create more shame, and a devastating spiral can quickly occur. On the other hand, you can set […]
How to Speak Up in a Healthy Way
When we don’t communicate our needs , it may be because we don’t have the skills to do it in a way that won’t be hurtful to either person. We’re afraid of what may happen, so we don’t even try. Therapy is a safe place to work through these feelings and practice without risk, and there […]
The Trouble With Not Speaking Up
I once heard of an eating disorder recovery group called “Say It or Stuff It.” So many people who have issues with food also have difficulty communicating what their needs are, and they’re not speaking up for themselves. The trouble likely stems from what we were taught as children – spoken or unspoken messages such […]
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