12/01/2025
❄️ Winter Wellness & Eating Disorder Recovery
Cold weather can heighten more than the temperature—it can impact our mood, routines, and even our relationship with food and body.
If this season feels challenging, you’re not alone. Winter often brings
fewer daylight hours, more time indoors, and increased pressure around holiday meals and comfort foods. These shifts can affect recovery, but gentle awareness and support can make a difference.
💙 Here are compassionate winter coping strategies for eating disorder recovery:
🌤️ Seek natural light early in the day to support energy and regulate appetite cues.
🧣 Warmth matters—inside and out. Nourishing meals, heated drinks, weighted blankets, socks on.
🔁 Keep rhythm over “right.” Consistent meals and snacks—even when hunger cues are muted—is part of healing.
🚶♀️ Choose movement for connection, not compensation. Gentle stretching, a walk in the sun, or calm breathing.
Practice connection when isolation grows. Reach out to your support system—or your treatment team—if the cold brings heaviness.
Recovery does not freeze with the season. Steady care, structure, and connection can build warmth, even in the coldest months.
📍 Blue Ridge Eating Disorder Residential Treatment
Supporting long-term eating disorder recovery—one season at a time.