Eating Disorders and Trauma: What Is Trauma?
How do we define trauma? If you look up the word “trauma” various definitions populate. The underlying theme amongst the trauma definitions involves an unpleasant experience that leaves a person with...
View ArticleEating Disorders and Valentine’s Day Sadness
February 14th is St. Valentine’s Day – which has been celebrated as a day of romance for many years. Approximately 150 million Valentine’s Day cards are exchanged annually, making this the second most...
View ArticleDBT Group Denver: Eating Disorders Prevention
DBT Group Denver: Using DBT Skills to Help Prevent Disordered Eating Behavior Have you been wanting to change your relationship with food, but feel stuck or hopeless? In honor of National Eating...
View ArticleEating Disorders and Nutrition: Why Your Brain Needs Green Veggies
As a dietitian who specializes in the treatment of eating disorders, I enjoy educating my clients about the role of nutrition in eating disorder recovery. Eating well isn’t just about weight gain or...
View ArticleEating Disorders Therapy: How Is Therapy Like Doing Laundry?
Eating disorders therapy can be very beneficial, and in fact necessary – and yet, eating disorders therapy can also seem like a lot of work, so it might be tempting to let issues pile up until they...
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Eating Disorders: Physical vs. Emotional Eating
As a Registered Dietitian, part of my role is to provide education about nutrition. I recently taught a class on emotional vs. physical eating. I started the class by asking who felt they were an...
View ArticleEating Disorders and Trauma: Journaling for Recovery
Journaling can offer a cathartic release from issues you are going through in life and also what you are experiencing in therapy – whether it is for eating disorders and trauma, or something else....
View ArticleEating Disorders and DBT: Finding a New Relationship with Food
Eating disorders and DBT skills can go hand-in-hand – to find a new relationship with food. We often think of spring as a time for new growth – flowers are blooming, trees are blossoming, and life...
View ArticleEating Disorders and Art Therapy: Separating from ED
When considering eating disorders and art therapy, how can clients enhance their recovery through the separation from “ED” (what they might call their eating disorder)? Common with clients suffering...
View ArticleDrunkorexia: Health Risks & Recovery Tips
“Drunkorexia” – it’s not a medical term, but literally, this term implies a combination of excessive alcohol consumption (“drunk”) with desire or appetite (“-orexia”). On college campuses, this term...
View ArticleSugar Addiction: Why Am I Constantly Craving Sweets?
Do you constantly crave sweets? Do you try to avoid sugar, but eventually binge? Do you wonder if you have a sugar addiction? We are constantly bombarded with conflicting nutrition messages; “Eat only...
View ArticleWilderness Therapy & Eating Disorders
Wilderness Therapy in Eating Disorders Recovery My name is Kristen, I am the newest EDIT™ Counselor Intern at Positive Pathways, from the Transpersonal Wilderness Therapy Program at Naropa University....
View ArticleBody Image Issues: How to Love Your Self
Love Your Self – it might seem like a great concept, but how can you put it into practice, when you struggle with body image issues? You might think, “I will love myself when ___.” Fill in the blank: I...
View ArticleCore Issues in Eating Disorders
What are some core issues in eating disorders? Are there themes that almost always show up in eating disorder recovery? Why is art therapy so effective to explore these core issues in eating disorders?...
View ArticleSugar Addiction: Eat More Protein and Crave Less Sugar
Sugar addiction – a behavior of binge eating sugary foods – is a problem reported by many people, especially at this time of year, when Halloween candy is so prevalent! Some “sugar addicts” attempt to...
View ArticleEating Disorders and Stress: DBT Coping Skills for the Holidays
Eating disorders and stress tend to “feed each other.” Let’s be honest about that. This is often a triggering and stressful time of year; the holidays are rapidly approaching, the change in seasons can...
View ArticleEating Disorder Recovery: Shoulding on Yourself or Others
Shoulding on Yourself or Others: How Does this Affect Eating Disorder Recovery? What happens for you when I tell you this: You should lose weight. You should gain weight. You should eat more green...
View ArticleBinge Eating Disorder and Weight Loss
Binge Eating Disorder and Weight Loss Success Strategies Binge Eating Disorder and weight loss goals tend to surface with New Year’s Resolutions. However, your therapist tells you, “Trying to lose...
View ArticleDBT Group Denver: Eating Disorder Recovery
DBT Group Denver – February 8 thru March 29, 6-7:30pm Do you want to change your relationship with food? Have you made some New Year’s resolutions and are hoping is that in 2017 you can find solutions...
View ArticleWill Eating Fat Make Me Fat?
Will Eating Fat Make Me Fat? My name is Janelle Hunt, MS, RD – and I’m a Registered Dietitian who specializes in the treatment of eating disorders. In my last two blogs, I discussed how essential it is...
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