8 Keys to Recovery From an Eating Disorder Babette Rothschild, the Series Editor of 8 Keys, explains in her introduction that the purpose of the 8 Keys series is to provide intelligent, thoughtful help from highly experienced professionals. In this case, Carolyn Costin ...
Loud In The House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl I found "Loud In The House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl" by Stacy Pershall to be a superbly written, first-person account of a young girl's struggle with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and bipolar ...
Brave Girl Eating: A Family’s Struggle with Anorexia Between three and six percent of all teens struggle with some type of eating disorder, be it bulimia, binge eating, or anorexia. Because these illnesses involve eating, they seem to take a blow at family ...
Restoring Our Bodies, Reclaiming Our Lives: Recovery from Eating Disorders Aimee Liu writes with a gentleness and an understanding that only someone who has been through the painful process of recovery can truly possess: Her 1979 memoir, Solitaire, was the first discussion of anorexia nervosa ...
Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self Acceptance Humans are obsessed with body image. The media says we should look a certain way, else we be outcast and forgotten. Although men do feel the need to have an attractive appearance, women are more ...
The Voice of an Eating Disorder Many people have a difficult time comprehending eating disorders and their true intensity and severity.
Myths abound:
Eating disorders are a choice. (They’re ...
What We Eat: Morality and the Dinner Table We humans enjoy dividing things into categories. Doing so helps us form cognitive shortcuts and organize large sets of information. ...
Food, Family and the Holidays If you tend to struggle with food, weight and body image, holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas can be particularly challenging, because they revolve so much ...
Wannarexia: What Parents Can Do Anorexia nervosa is a serious illness with dangerous health consequences and has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. Yet some people yearn ...
Size Does Not Equal a Healthy Body I will never forget the night my 6'3" tall, slender brother and his even taller, slender friend bought two tickets for the ...
10 Tips to Ease Concerns About Your Weight Given the focus on weight by the health establishment, the government and the media, it is not surprising that many people in this country are anxiously asking the same question. And there is no shortage ...
A Chance to Live Inside every human being is a drive. Sometimes the drive is clear cut: he or she wants to be a doctor, a lawyer, a wife, a mother, a husband, a father, or something else entirely. ...
The Eating Disorder Beast Can Be Beaten I'm 15 years old, it's 3:00 p.m., school is out and I can't wait to get home and be alone. I'm dizzy, lightheaded, and cold. As I go to my locker to get ...
Purge: Rehab Diaries In our society, eating disorders are mostly misunderstood and glamorized. We’re told that everyone with an eating disorder is skin and bones. That just by looking at someone we can easily spot the starvation, the ...
