"Recovery from disordered eating depends upon creating a friendly relationship with our feelings, responding to them with curiosity, not judgment, and receiving the gifts they can bring." - Anita Johnston, PhD, Eating in the Light of the Moon
Are you struggling with restricting your food? Binging and Purging? Fear of gaining weight? Laxative Abuse? Skipping meals? Feeling Fat? Distorted Body Image? Are you drawn toward cosmetic surgeries? Do you find it hard to stop exercising? Are you uncomfortable when you are full?
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Eating Disorders, disordered eating, and body-image issues affect men and women of all ages. Anorexia and Bulimia are words now commonly splashed across magazine covers as we stand in the check-out line at the grocery store. The latest and greatest diet is not only on talk shows, but now also on our local and national news. Those struggling with eating, weight, and body-image are targeted by the marketing techniques of fad diets, gym memberships, and cosmetic surgeons. Prominent public figures are losing and gaining weight and reality television rewards the person who can lose the most weight in the shortest amount of time. Our culture seems to have gone mad with the obsession with thinness, firmness, weight loss, dieting, and the quest for physical perfection.
Along with cultural influences, there are other reasons why an eating disorder is developed. Some of the factors may include: a way to gain control over life, family dynamics, a way to deal with difficult emotions or low self-esteem, and a lack of trust in oneself and others.
I offer specialized treatment for all forms of eating disorders, meeting where you are at in your own personal journey to discover your own personal reasons for the eating disorder. It is not all about the food. I believe eating disorders are a body-mind illness with psychological struggles underlying the more visible physiological issues and struggles with food. The eating disorder often makes perfect sense and fulfills a certain meaning or purpose in life. Therapy can assist by helping you discover this meaning, access your feelings, develop a new relationship to your body and food, and learn new ways to cope with the stresses of life.
I believe every client has the internal potential to be recovered from an eating disorder. Recovery involves learning to identify your feelings and accepting them without judgment. Recovery involves learning to recognize the unique beauty we each possess and assertively claiming your path of truth and love. Recovery involves trusting in your own inner wisdom and capacity to heal. Recovery is freedom.
Call or email me today so we can talk more about how therapy can help you discover your own inner wisdom and healing potential and you can move on your path towards freedom.