A challenge parents of youth in eating disorder recovery need to address is how to navigate school during eating disorder recovery. Let’s explore school and eating disorders (symptoms and treatment), and what your options are.

This blog explains why eating disorders in teens can be challenging to notice, especially as symptoms often mimic other issues like ADHD, OCD, GI disorders, or food allergies. Adolescents may mask behaviours as “healthy” choices or appear high-functioning, making it easy for parents and even healthcare providers to overlook signs. This blog covers early symptoms, like mood changes and food avoidance, and emphasizes the importance of early intervention for recovery. Understanding these signs can help parents take proactive steps in supporting their child’s health.

Amenorrhea, or missing periods, is associated with a large number of eating disorders. When we think about the risks of amenorrhea, we most commonly think about the negative implications on fertility and bone health. However, missing periods could actually be causing cardiovascular damage.  

Body checking is a common behavior that one does when struggling with body image and negative thoughts about body. Let’s explore today what “body checking” means and learn some tools to help you shift away from constantly body checking. 

Overeaters Anonymous is directly modelled after Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and follows the same principles and structure; but does this abstinence model help or hurt a person with binge eating disorder?

Overcoming binge eating is not as simple and straightforward as just stopping binge eating, and while there are many areas within binge eating where we see this circular cause and effect, to me, the most highlighted of that is dieting.  Learn more about the cycle of binge eating and dieting in this article.

In our work supporting individuals and their families through eating disorder recovery, we have seen how harmful smartwatches and fitness trackers (such as Fitbits and Apple Watches) can be to those struggling with an eating disorder. In this blog, I talk more about the connection between smartwatches and fitness trackers, and eating disorders. 

In this blog, we will explore in detail the effects on the nervous system during chronic fight or flight (such as living with an eating disorder), and how to recover from living in prolonged trauma.

Knowing what triggers you to binge eat and having tools to utilize whenever the urge to binge arises is imperative to your binge eating disorder recovery. Read this blog post to learn my 2 favorite tools to use when you feel the urge to binge.

With eating disorders, it is common to have a limited list of “allowed” foods, and a larger list of foods avoided for a variety of different reasons ranging from fear, to food rules, to preference...but in eating disorder recovery we must practice acceptance before preference. Learn more on the blog.

While there is no one single cause of eating disorders, disordered eating and body dissatisfaction, there is a clear connection in research that media is a contributing factor to eating disorders. In this article, I explore the lin between social media and eating disorders and what you can do about it.

To fully stop the binge eating cycle long- term, it is important to bring awareness to what NOT to do after a binge, because everyone who has struggled with binge eating, has behavior patterns after a binge that keep them in the cycle of binge eating.  Learn 5 things NOT to do after binge eating.

‘The 4 Pillars of Eating’ is a wonderful way to articulate the importance of eating not only for nourishment of your body, but also for enjoyment. These 4 pillars are a wonderful way to help guide you gently to a more intuitive way to make food choices, and away from more rigid measuring and restrictions.

Why is BMI Used in Eating Disorder Treatment?

in this blog we break explre the flaws in using BMI to create categories of health and weight.

Once physical stability and a certain amount of recovery has been acquired, many want to begin to work on eating intuitively, which begins with getting familiar with your body and its cues. In this blog, I share with you 2 wonderful tools to do so: The Hunger Scale and Types of Hunger.

In this blog we explore a barrier to eating disorder recovery care we commonly see. Many eating disorder recovery programs and institutions have become like Goldilocks. The individual must be “just right”; not too sick, not too well, or else they will get turned away.

In the beginning stages of eating disorder recovery, and for quite some time in the journey, we need to eat mechanically. So let’s explore together what is mechanical eating, how to begin to eat mechanically, why you should do it, and when it is safe to begin exploring intuitive eating.  

Eating disorders and premenstrual disorders, including PMS and PMDD, are quite connected in that the symptoms of premenstrual disorders can trigger eating disorder behaviors and exacerbate eating disorder symptoms.  Read more to learn why this happens and how PMS and eating disorders affect one another.  

Creating a nurturing home plays a pivotal role in recovery. Family involvement in eating disorder recovery leads to higher success rates and stronger resilience. Whether or not an individual goes to a hospital treatment program, eventually they have to come home. Creating a strong foundation in the home, and within the family dynamic is a key pillar for lasting recovery, and for many families, this can be implemented from the start of the recovery journey.

Finding the right type of eating disorder care can be very overwhelming . In this blog, I break down the various eating disorder treatment options available and what each of them entails so you can know your choices and have more confidence and clarity in deciding the best next step for your child (and your family as a whole).