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Online therapy for Eating Disorders, OCD and Anxiety. We serve clients all over the state of CA.

01/01/2026

Maybe it’s the adhd or maybe it’s being in the trenches of toddler parenthood- but this year I’ve been loving (it’s all my brain can seem to hold right now) bite sized gems of writing to keep me grounded, that I can quickly come back to over and over. Sharing some of my favs with you as we end this year.

Whatever you’re doing and wherever you are; I’m sending you love 💗

12/31/2025

Not that it makes recovery ‘easier’ but it can awaken a desire to break the food rules just for the *spite* of pushing back on a sick misogynistic system that wants us small and frail.

I call this values realignment 👏

Tell me below what motivates you to keep going in recovery, despite the influx of extreme thinness glorification, GLP-1’s, etc. ⬇️

12/27/2025

New blog by Reece on our practices website! Give it a read and let us know if you can relate. Something that has helped both of us with harm ocd, especially relational harm ocd, is ‘s breakdown of what harm actually is. Pop psychology conflates harm with things that are often not harm, which leaves room for OCD brains to run wild. (Iykyk) 😂

Of course, there’s a lot more that goes into OCD therapy, but this gem of a blog post is definitely something you don’t want to miss in terms of exploring how OCD can make us question our values.

If you’re looking for a therapist in WA, UT or MD who specializes in ED, OCD and neurodiversity affirming care, reach out via the link on our bio to get connected to Reece!

Blog post: https://www.eatingdisorderocdtherapy.com/blog/relational-harm-ocd

12/23/2025

As an ED therapist I couldn’t *not* share some tips for navigating the holidays. It’s a rough time for a lot of people, and especially those struggling with an eating disorder. Tip #4 and 7 REALLY helped me when I was in the trenches of recovery. I can’t say it made it all better, but it made it more manageable.

I’m thinking of each and every one of you- and I believe in you. 🫶🏽☃️

If you’re looking for a therapist, visit the link in my bio- we have spots open for clients in CA, WA, UT, FL & MD!

12/12/2025

Sometimes our feelings do not match our values. This doesn’t make you a hypocrite. Many of our feelings are conditioned responses shaped by survival, which sometimes is in contrast with how we want to feel or what we believe in our core. I see this come up for many people in ED recovery- especially right now when we are surrounded by immense pressure to shrink our bodies and we see people we love falling into this trap. It can make us question our own bodies and long for a smaller one. That makes sense- we live in an anti-fat culture. We can notice those feelings without acting on them- we can lean into integrity around our values even when it’s hard.

Let me know your thoughts! Has this been coming up for you?

12/05/2025

Birthdays have always been a time of not just celebration (I do love a good party, I’m a sag ♐️), but also deep reflection. I like exploring the themes in the lessons I learned both through my own personal life, my work life and the various communities I’m apart of. I have a lotttt more to say, but here’s 4 that feel really important to name and share. ✨

I hope you feel seen or validated in these lessons. 💗

And thank you to each and every one of you who has supported me and taught me in ways big and small this year. Sharing knowledge, insights and tools on IG and on my podcast continues to feel like a very important community offering that I enjoy giving outside of therapy.

My posts might be fewer and further between due to being in the trenches of toddler parenting, but I love showing up when I have the capacity 💗

What lessons have you learned this year? Tell me below!

11/29/2025

New episode of Body Justice out now on Apple & Spotify or via the link below. This episode with Naomi Tapia is one for the books. Content warning: we dive into the intricacies of being a Latine eldest daughter, dealing with bulimia and sexual trauma, experiencing SI and so much more. This episode is powerful and inspiring- and it may also be triggering so please listen with care or save it for later.

Thank you Naomi for sharing your story with us and your wisdom ✨❤️‍🩹

Copy and paste this link to listen:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/body-justice/id1544021404?i=1000738810016

11/27/2025

I love this reminder from .rapping . Think of how you can ease trauma survivors burdens- not just call them resilient. Most of us resent the things that have happened to us to make us resilient.

11/25/2025

Internalized oppression happens when people from a marginalized group begins to believe and accept the negative stereotypes and misinformation about their own group, which is perpetuated by the dominant group.

But how does this impact mental health? The real question is, how does it not?

11/06/2025

This is not intended to shame anyone for their choices (we 100% believe in bodily autonomy), but more so to spark curiosity about the collective unconscious and population effects of this current cultural moment. We have been specifically curious about how collectively, our critical thinking skills are reduced when we are focused on hunger or shrinking our bodies- and who benefits from this.

Not everyone has side effects for GLP-1s, and for folks with certain medical issues these medications can be life changing- but it’s also being pushed on many of us for medically unnecessary weight loss.

Let’s consider the cumulative effects of even small reductions in motivation and desire on the individual level. What happens when this occurs in tandem with increased desperation from those who are losing their SNAP access?

Manufactured obedience and manufactured disobedience. Halloween may be over, but this is spooky.

Share your thoughts with us below- we want to hear from you- have you thought about this too? Or do you think we are totally overthinking it?!

*This is a summary based on the observation of cultural patterns and systemic trends. It is a theory, not definitive.

**This is also not specific medical or psychological advice, this is for informational and reflective purposes only.

10/31/2025

I recently gave a talk on anti-oppression OCD treatment, and I wanted to share a tiny snippet of something interesting I found out. I had heard of the WEIRD sample size domination issue before, but doing this deep dive was really eye opening. This it’s important to talk about not because we should bash on evidence based care (there is so much utility we shouldn’t ignore)- but because there are real limitations too. And if we don’t talk about them openly, clients will feel like they are the problem when an approach just doesn’t land for them. Sometimes it’s the way the approach is used, other times it just really isn’t a fit.

I know people with trauma who did not find EMDR beneficial. Same with ERP for OCD and FBT for EDs. Therapists can get really attached to some of these models, building entire businesses on them, and then when it doesn’t work for a client the response can be so double down. This isn’t right. We need to be flexible and adaptive. We need to really listen to the person in front of us and trust their expertise over our own.

Thoughts? Tell me below :)

10/23/2025

Gentle reminder to always look underneath the desire to shrink your body. So often it’s about wanting an easier, safer existence- which makes sense. Anti-fatness is pervasive and deadly. Anti-fatness is described as the last socially acceptable form of oppression in social psychology research. But it is NOT acceptable. I work with folks every day to detach their weight from their worth, and we wouldn’t have to do that if we lived in a world free from weight stigma.

You deserve so much compassion as you navigate healing your relationship to food and body in a sea of fatphobia and weight loss drugs and skinny tok. 😣❤️‍🩹

(I say this as someone with size privilege, I will never fully understand the complexity of navigating recovery while simultaneously facing weight stigma)

If you want help with recovery, my team is accepting new therapy clients in CA, WA, UT & MD. Reach out via the link in my bio!

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