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Eating Disorders and Holidays: DBT Coping Skills

Coping Skills, DBT, Distress Tolerance, Eating Disorder, Holidays, Mindfulness, Recovery Skills, Stress Management, Uncategorized / DrDorie

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 be tough, and it’s getting dark earlier. This particular year may be even more stressful due to the recent election, no matter what your political affiliation may be. It is very important that we pay attention to stress and try to prevent it from becoming too overwhelming. DBT can help you!

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Eating Disorders and Intimacy

Complete Recovery, Eating Disorder, Relationships, Vulnerability / DrDorie

As a therapist, I often hear about the shame and secrecy surrounding eating disorders. Usually clients experience this pain behind locked doors, in their bedrooms and bathrooms, separate from the rest of the world. There is a fear that many clients have of feeling utterly alone whilst simultaneously thinking that no one could possibly love them if they were “found out.” Isolation feeds eating disorders. Connection feeds recovery. This begins by…

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Eating Disorders and Art Therapy: Separating from ED

Art Therapy, Eating Disorder, Express Your Self, Recovery Skills, Uncategorized / DrDorie

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 from disordered eating, is the assumption that the internal dilemma is truly about calories, weight and food…

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Eating Disorders and DBT: A New Relationship with Food

Anorexia, Binge Eating, Bulimia, Coping Skills, DBT, Eating Disorder, Radical Acceptance, Recovery Skills, Uncategorized / DrDorie

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 begins anew. We can relate this to our relationship to food – making new choices, feeling rejuvenated and getting a fresh start in recovery…

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Eating Disorders and Trauma: Journaling for Recovery

Distress Tolerance, Eating Disorder, Emotion Regulaiton, Express Your Self, Journaling, Recovery Skills, Trauma / DrDorie

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. During therapy sessions with me, clients often bring a notebook or ask for a notepad to write down key points or homework. I also encourage clients to be open to journaling outside of the therapy office…

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DBT and Eating Disorders Prevention

Addiction, Coping Skills, DBT, Distress Tolerance, Eating Disorder, Mindfulness, Recovery Skills, Stress Management, Uncategorized / DrDorie

Have you been wanting to change your relationship with food, but feel stuck or hopeless? In honor of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, I wanted to assist people to find more freedom in their relationship with food by using simple DBT (Dialectal Behavior Therapy) skills…

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Metaphors Of Eating Disorders: Eating In The Light Of The Moon

Eating Disorder, Express Your Self, Mindfulness, Recovery Skills, Uncategorized / DrDorie

Eating in the Light of the Moon, by Dr. Anita Johnston, is a book that speaks to one’s relationship with food, particularly naming what may feel true about food, eating, and weight for those who identify as women. Dr. Johnston offers wisdom here that may apply to those who experience disordered eating, as well as to anyone who has wondered about the concepts of true nourishment or food as a metaphor.

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Eating Disorder Recovery: Shoulding on Yourself or Others

Eating Disorder, Express Your Self, Mindfulness, Perfectionism, Recovery Skills / DrDorie

What happens for you when I tell you this: You should lose weight. You should gain weight. You should eat more green vegetables and less carbs. You should exercise more. In other words… You are not OK as you are. How does that feel? As a therapist, I don’t believe that clients should be different than they are – I look at the deeper wisdom in the eating disorder…

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Fitness Modeling and Eating Disorders

Athletes, Body Image, Diet, Eating Disorder, Intuitive Exercise, Love Your Self, Nutrition, Uncategorized, Weight Loss / DrDorie

There are many things about the world of fitness modeling that makes an eating disorders therapist cringe. Most notably, there’s the very strict dieting, and also the large amount of time spent on intensive workouts at the gym. Less obvious – but extremely concerning – are the body image issues that arise from quests for physical perfection…

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Eating Disorder

Eating Disorders and Holidays: DBT Coping Skills

Eating Disorders and Intimacy

Eating Disorders and Art Therapy: Separating from ED

Eating Disorders and DBT: A New Relationship with Food

Eating Disorders and Trauma: Journaling for Recovery

DBT and Eating Disorders Prevention

Metaphors Of Eating Disorders: Eating In The Light Of The Moon

Eating Disorder Recovery: Shoulding on Yourself or Others

Fitness Modeling and Eating Disorders

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