Most people expect that when they engage in recovery, the eating disorder voice will get quieter. Unfortunately, at least for a little while, that’s not quite right. In fact, for some time, it gets incessantly louder. When you begin to challenge its rules and restrictions, it doesn’t step aside peacefully. Instead, it often fights back[…]
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Grieving Your Eating Disorder: When Letting Go Feels Like Losing Yourself
Eating Disorders Aug 27, 2025
What’s the biggest surprise people often have in eating disorder recovery? You might grieve the loss of your eating disorder. Despite the pain, distress, and suffering it can cause, we would be fooling ourselves if we didn’t acknowledge the certainty, structure, and validation it also provides. For many of our clients, recovery often[…]
Quasi-Recovery in Anorexia: The In-Between Stage No One Talks About
Eating Disorders, Uncategorised Jul 30, 2025
When people think about anorexia, they often picture its most acute stages: rapid weight loss, medical crises, and intense control over food. But one of the most misunderstood and overlooked parts of the recovery journey isn’t the crisis phase; it’s the space after it. It’s the in-between. The place where recovery has begun, but the individual[…]
When we think of eating disorders, we often imagine short-term, treatable conditions – someone struggling with food and body image for a period, receiving therapy, and then recovering. However, for some people, an eating disorder becomes a long-term, deeply entrenched part of their life. This is the reality for people with Long-standing and Severe Eating[…]
