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Northside Consulting Indy Northside Consulting helps individuals diagnosed with an eating disorder, and their families, navigate the vast world of treatment options.

We can help you find the right direction.

01/06/2022

Loved ones have much insight to provide when diagnosing an eating disorder.

Sometimes, these close connections aren’t always forthcoming with information or concerns that they may have.

There are four aspects that you could ask them about that your patient may not always be aware of or have answers to.

1. Changes in eating patterns
2. Changes in the way they view food
3. The impact these changes may be having on their relationships with family, friends or academic performance/productivity
4. Changes in mood

Including loved-ones within the patient’s diagnosis will further strengthen the support the patient will need during the treatment and maintenance thereafter.

Do you find that your patients' close connections are helpful to your treatment of the patient?

As a parent, it can feel overwhelming and even terrifying to learn that your child is struggling with an eating disorder...
11/02/2021

As a parent, it can feel overwhelming and even terrifying to learn that your child is struggling with an eating disorder. We provide one-on-one coaching for parents who need to know how to best to support their child through the recovery process. Our consultants offer education about eating disorders including the dos and don'ts of being a part of your child's recovery journey, insights into navigating treatment options for their child, and ongoing support and encouragement to help avoid caregiver burnout. Reach out to us today for more information:
kate@northsideconsultingllc.com



Eating disorder recovery is a challenging process, and setbacks can happen. When they do, it’s important to remind yours...
08/24/2021

Eating disorder recovery is a challenging process, and setbacks can happen. When they do, it’s important to remind yourself (or your loved one) that you are still worthy of recovery. Here’s some info on what these terms mean for ED.

A lapse is a brief slip back into disordered behaviors after a period of recovery. A lapse often occurs in response to a discrete stressful event, when someone uses disordered eating to cope with emotions before returning to a recovery lifestyle.

A relapse is a period of several weeks or longer when a person returns to disordered behaviors after being in recovery. Relapses often happen when someone stops or reduces their intentional recovery activities, sliding gradually into old patterns.

A collapse is a full return to an eating disorder lifestyle. Collapse usually involves a recurrence of all physical, mental, and emotional symptoms of the eating disorder. Collapses can be scary, disheartening, and dangerous for a person and their family.

Eating disorder recovery is a challenging process, and setbacks can happen. When they do, you are still worthy of recove...
08/24/2021

Eating disorder recovery is a challenging process, and setbacks can happen. When they do, you are still worthy of recovery! Here's some info on what these terms mean for ED.

A lapse is a brief slip back into disordered behaviors after a period of recovery. A lapse often occurs in response to a discrete stressful event, when someone uses disordered eating to cope with emotions before returning to a recovery lifestyle.

A relapse is a period of several weeks or longer when a person returns to disordered behaviors after being in recovery. Relapses often happen when someone stops or reduces their intentional recovery activities, sliding gradually into old patterns.

A collapse is a full return to an eating disorder lifestyle. Collapse usually involves a recurrence of all physical, mental, and emotional symptoms of the eating disorder. Collapses can be scary, disheartening, and dangerous for a person and their family.

Have you heard of night eating disorder?First identified in the 1950s, night eating disorder is only recently coming to ...
08/23/2021

Have you heard of night eating disorder?

First identified in the 1950s, night eating disorder is only recently coming to the forefront of eating disorder and treatment and research. Diagnostically, night eating disorder is categorized under OSFED, or Other specified feeding or eating disorder.

Individuals with night eating disorder experience recurrent episodes of eating late at night, or waking up in the night to eat. Individuals may feel a lack of control during the eating, but do remember it in the morning. The night eating causes significant distress or impairment in functioning for the person.

People with night eating disorder also typically experience problems with falling and staying asleep in general and they are more likely to experience depression. Night eating disorder differs from binge eating disorder in that it exclusively shows up with late night eating, and does not have to involve eating an excessively large amount of food.

We get it. We know you’re feeling alone, tired, overwhelmed, and exhausted. You need support to navigate this disease, j...
08/12/2021

We get it. We know you’re feeling alone, tired, overwhelmed, and exhausted. You need support to navigate this disease, just as your child does. We got your back with our parent coaching services. Visit our website to learn more 🌙

Building a healthy relationship with food and your body means breaking down the internal rules and guidelines that reinf...
07/31/2021

Building a healthy relationship with food and your body means breaking down the internal rules and guidelines that reinforce shame and perpetuate the diet cycle. However, there is one rule that DOES apply to intuitive eating and body acceptance: do NOT weigh yourself!

Aside from a very few medical situations, there aren't many scenarios where knowing your weight is helpful. In addition to it not being an accurate way to assess health, it fluctuates often and is influenced by so many factors that none of us can account for. And, when you struggle with mixed body image, the number on the scale either makes you feel bad or can put the pressure on to try to 'maintain' a weight loss.

Step away from the scale and learn to listen to your body!

07/28/2021

The Effects of Restriction on Brain Chemistry

Our brain chemistry can be severely altered during prolonged starvation and severe food restriction, affecting our emotions and behaviors. When the brain is starved, it releases chemicals known as endorphins, which give us more energy and a happy feeling. This is the brain’s attempt when starved, to motivate us to go find food, since it is under the impression that our food source is limited. For someone with an eating disorder, the release of endorphins feels good and gives the illusion that they are in control of themselves and their environment. Dopamine levels are also affected. In a healthy brain, dopamine, a chemical that gives us a sense of pleasure, is released when we eat so we’ll want to eat again. For someone with anorexia, the release of dopamine actually increases feelings of anxiety. This can cause a further limitation of food intake to avoid triggering feelings of anxiety. Starvation also decreases the release of other chemicals such as serotonin and noradrenaline which can cause a reduction in feelings of anxiety, further reinforcing the restriction behavior. This changes in brain chemistry are not necessarily permanent and can be restored to healthy functioning once your body begins to rehabilitate nutritionally.

Being able to separate eating disorder thoughts versus healthy thought patterns is an important process for anyone tryin...
07/22/2021

Being able to separate eating disorder thoughts versus healthy thought patterns is an important process for anyone trying to engage in eating disorder recovery. This process typically involves three steps, each of which gets us closer to freedom from disordered eating behaviors.

1. Identify: Start trying to identify internal thought patterns and particularly, those which are disordered eating patterns versus healthy patterns. This involves mindfulness and potentially naming and stating your thought patterns out loud to figure out if they are disordered. For example, 'I'm having the urge to skip dinner to compensate for eating a large lunch. This is probably an eating disorder thought because it's not healthy to skip a meal.

2. Disagree: In this step, we intentionally disagree internally with our disordered thought pattern. So we first identify it as disordered, and then internally are able to reject it. This may not impact whether or not we act on it, but we are able to state unequivocally that we disagree with it. For example, 'I know that my urge to skip dinner is disordered, and I disagree with the idea that skipping dinner is good.

3. Disobey: This final step is built upon the previous two steps. After we have identified and disagreed with an eating disorder thought, we push ourselves to 'disobey' the same thought. That means following our disagreement with action by refusing to act on the thought. For example, 'I know that skipping dinner is a disordered idea, so I'm going to disobey this thought and go ahead and eat something.

While eating disorder thoughts can be invasive and obsessive, starting to identify and disagree with these thoughts puts us on the path to recovery. Eventually the goal is to disobey more and more often, as we move away from our active disorder.

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