Here are some of the yoga principles that have come up most often as I have counseled people with eating disorders and food addiction to “live their yoga.”
The Mind-Body Disconnect of Eating Disorders
Yoga is much more than just postures. The benefits of yoga are well researched, and it is a natural fit to help with food issues.
Tools for the Recovery Stage of Life
A major part of your recovery will be gaining comfort and acceptance of your body. Whether or not your body size has changed in recovery, you can learn to love and be grateful for who you see in the mirror. A distorted body image can be deeply embedded in people who are recovering from an […]
Learning to Live in Recovery
According to the Transtheoretical (Stages of Change) Model developed by Prochaska and DiClemente, once someone has passed through the active stage of recovery they enter a maintenance phase. As I wrote about in 2009, a big area of focus in this stage is on how to prevent relapse. But there has to be more to […]
Accepting Compassion is Not Always Easy
For people who are recovering from an eating disorder, compassionate support from others can be unsettling. You may not know how to receive that support, and you may not feel like you deserve it. Have you ever heard the expression that “we teach people how to treat us”? What happens in this case is that […]
Weaving in Other People’s Words
If you’re someone who tends towards negative, self-harmful thinking, you can practice using other people’s words until they become more natural to you. Here are a few ways you can do this
Choosing the Words to Share
Find a way to speak your truth to others in a kind way that feels honorable to you and aligned with your values.
Planting the Garden Within
How are you doing? Are you making progress in the direction you hoped for? Or are you starting to get a bit discouraged? Dealing with food and weight can be very “cunning, baffling and powerful” (to borrow from Alcoholics Anonymous). This is a l-o-n-g process and many give up way too early! All it takes […]
IAEDP™ Symposium 2012: A Perspective
(IAEDP is the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals) As a licensed clinician, supervisor of interns, and adjunct professor of psychology working in and focusing on the field of Eating Disorders and Food Addiction, I have to say, I love my job. I love helping people work on recovery from conditions and often debilitating eating […]
Why a Team Approach?
By Jaki Hitzelberger, MA, Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern Surrounding yourself with a team of people who are knowledgeable, who support you, who understand and care, and who work towards helping you help yourself to a better, healthier life – that is an important part of our approach at White Picket Fence Counseling Center. One of the […]
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