Center for Eating Disorders

11/09/2025

Thanks to for this excellent post
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Fatphobia sucks. And medical fatphobia is particularly dangerous.

It demeans.
It shames.
It inteferes with care and with recovery.

This isn’t something I intend to stop talking about, and I hope you won’t either.

11/09/2025

In “It’s like building a new person”: lived experience perspectives on eating disorder recovery processes by LaMarre et al. Journal of Eating Disorders 2024 the authors interviewed people with personal experience with ED or experience supporting someone with an ED to explore their views on what recovery looks like and feels like.
And the 3 themes mentioned in the graphic summarized their responses.
This matches what we see in our outpatient work with children, teens, and adults with all types of eating disorders.
Recovery involves personal, interpersonal, and systemic change - in how we relate to ourselves, those we count on for understanding and support, and the culture at large.
It may sound daunting, but in reality change on a personal level naturally leads to change in our relationships and how we relate to the world.
We see our clients go through this every day, in their own ways.

It is why we do this work. It is a privilege to work alongside people reclaiming their bodies, tbeir relationships and the way they live their lives.

11/03/2025

Weekly support groups offered by F.E.A.S.T.

💬 This week’s support groups at F.E.A.S.T.:

Monday: Caregiver Support Group at 5pm PT / 8pm ET
• Open to parents, spouses, roommates, and anyone in a caregiving role

Tuesday: Sibling Support Group at 5pm PT / 8pm ET
• Open to siblings 13+ navigating life alongside a loved one with an eating disorder
• A safe, peer-led space to share and connect

Thursday: Caregiver Support Group at 11am PT / 2pm ET
• Open to parents, spouses, roommates, and anyone in a caregiving role

📎 Register here: feast-ed.org/supportgroup-reg

11/02/2025

Learning to listen to the language of your body and your own internal wisdom helps you to develop the muscle needed to push back against the authoritarian style that drives ED thoughts, beliefs and behaviors. Every time you question the ED rules, every time you make a choice in favor of honoring what your body/mind/self authentically needs you create a crack in the ED system. Healing is truly about emancipation.

❤️💜

10/28/2025

Trauma and PTSD (including subthreshold PTSD) are high risk factors for eating disorders. In fact an eating disorder can sometimes serve as a way to manage or suppress trauma-related feelings and thoughts, and the hyperactivation related to PTSD.

Trauma-informed treatment attends to this important interplay, helping the client to see the relationship and gradually learn to manage and tolerate the trauma symptoms without slipping into the ED for trauma moderation. This take time and practice and respect for the role the ED plays.

# traumaandeatingdisorders

10/27/2025

Excellent post shared from about the process of emotional regulation

While we might wish we could avoid unsettling
emotions, healing means building a nervous system that can experience these emotions and process them in an integrative way.
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We’ve been taught to “regulate our nervous system” as if calm is the goal. But calm is a byproduct of safety, not a substitute for it.

Meditation, breathwork, affirmations, and cold plunges can absolutely help shift your state - but if you never address what’s beneath the anxiety, you’re soothing the surface while the root keeps firing.

Real regulation comes from integration: where you’re not just managing symptoms, but creating safety.

10/26/2025

Living with and trying to recover from an eating disorder can often feel like a lonely endeavor. Complicated, chronic illnesses are often difficult for others to understand. And if we feel misunderstood it’s natural to question ourselves, to feel like it is our fault or that we are different.

The thing is, eating disorders occur around the globe, affecting people of all ages, genders, & cultures.

Human beings around the world have eating disorders and are looking for help and ways to recover.

It isn’t your fault that you have an ED. We say this all the time to our clients and loved ones but it is hard for them to absorb this truism. We feed ourselves. If we are eating in a dysregulated way, it must be under our power to “eat right”.

But powerful physiological and psychological mechanisms join forces in the development of an ED. These forces can be tricky to dismantle. And access to specialized treatment and support can be a challenge.

If you are trying to recover from an ED, please be compassionate with yourself. You are on a path with countless others around the world. Keep seeking support, keep taking one more step, and most of all be kind to yourself.

10/24/2025

We all know ED treatment can be complicated and challenging. Two steps forward one step back. Not being sure if you are making progress because sometimes the wins seems so small. In many parts of the U.S. and the globe there is poor access to any kind of ED treatment. So searching for the best care can mean accepting whatever care you can find. Sometimes that is the very best step you can take. And to reclaim your life your best move is to work with the available treatment and make the most of it.
But in an ideal world we all get to receive the expert ED treatment that fits us best. That feels right, offering the kind of help we need in a way that makes us feel seen and respected.

10/24/2025

Thank you for another critically important post
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A weight-centric culture and endless marketing by the weight loss industry tells us that we should uncritically assume that health issues are caused by weight and cured by weight loss.

Instead, we should be extremely critical of those assumptions because they rarely, if ever, hold up to scientific scrutiny.

Here are 5 questions to ask to analyze claims about weight and health. For the full story check out

“Quick Guide - Expanding Thinking About Weight And Health” on WeightAndHealthcare.com

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Quick Guide:
5 Questions to
Analyze Claims About Weight And Health

1. Do thin people get this health issue?

2. What about weight stigma, weight cycling, and
healthcare inequalities which are correlated with
the same health issues that get blamed on weight?

3. How did the research differentiate between the
effects of behavior change vs weight change?

4. Have you looked into research supporting a weight-
neutral option?

5. What is recommended for thin patients with this
same issue/symptoms/diagnosis?

Read more about it at
WeightAndHealthcare.com

10/23/2025

We are bombarded daily with input that incites negative, toxic self-comparison.
One way to refresh your system is to step outside and look up at the sky. Take a breath. Feel the fresh air, breathe it in. Notice your feet connecting to the ground. Whether you are in a major metropolitan area or a rural town the sky remains a natural space we can connect to. To ground ourselves in a world that is large and beautiful and free of judgment.

Take these moments whenever you can to help cleanse yourself of self-critical input and to build a feeling of belonging and self-acceptance.

10/23/2025

Excellent post from about the healing capacity of community

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As humans, we are wired for connection. Healing in community is how our nervous systems find safety and support; we cannot heal in isolation.
Learn more about Polyvagal Theory —the science of safety and human connection— on our website.
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