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What is Rumination Eating Disorder?
Rumination eating disorder is eating food, swallowing, regurgitating the food, chewing it again, then re-swallowing it or spitting it out.
Jun 5, 20203 min read


Faith and Spirituality: An Explanation of My Purpose
My life purpose or spirituality is my religion, Christianity. Let me unpack that so you understand my eating disorder history better.
Jun 2, 20204 min read


Outlets for Emotions That Aren't Food
How do people without eating disorders express their emotions? Here are ten helpful ways to process your feelings without food.
May 29, 20203 min read


How to Talk to Someone Else With an Eating Disorder
How to talk to someone else with an eating disorder? Relationships were vital to my eating disorder recovery, but they can be dangerous.
May 26, 20204 min read


Stages of Addiction Recovery
There are three stages of recovery: the transition/abstinence stage, the early recovery/repair stage, and the ongoing recovery/growth stage.
May 19, 20201 min read


What is Pica?
Pica is characterized by eating items of no nutritional value such as ice, soap, dirt, or paint. It is a rare eating disorder.
May 15, 20203 min read


Is There Such a Thing as an Addictive Personality?
We have all heard, "I just have an addictive personality." Is it scientific and what does it have to do with an eating disorder?
Apr 28, 20204 min read


How to Deal With People Who Don't Understand Eating Disorders
We have all had that conversation. You have to tell a loved one about your eating disorder. So you sit down and... stare at each other.
Apr 24, 20206 min read


Living Beyond Your Feelings by Joyce Meyer
Living Beyond Your Feelings by Joyce Meyer is for older Christian woman. If that doesn't fit you, I wouldn't recommend this book.
Apr 21, 20206 min read


How Lack of Purpose Leads to Addiction
Eating disorders are behavioral addictions. Addiction and lack of purpose are intertwined, but with an eating disorder, which came first?
Apr 14, 20203 min read


Eating Disorder Severity Test
Do you have an eating disorder? It's not yes or no. Eating disorders come in all sizes. Take this eating disorder severity test to find out!
Apr 7, 20203 min read


How to Talk to Loved Ones About Your Eating Disorder
How to Talk About Your Eating Disorder. It's hardest to be honest with loved ones, but you have to communicate with them what is going on.
Apr 3, 20204 min read


What is an Emotion Wheel
An emotion wheel is a tool to help individuals learn to recognize and communicate their feelings.
Mar 27, 20203 min read


Why I Write: To Express My Emotions
Why do I write? I started to figure out how to express my emotions. My eating disorder evolved into emotional eating and I needed help.
Mar 23, 20204 min read


A Holistic Approach to Eating Disorder Recovery
A holistic approach to eating disorder recovery is tackling all five aspects of life, spiritual, mental, emotional, social, and physical.
Mar 14, 20205 min read


What is Bulimia Nervosa?
Bulimia Nervosa (BN) is binge eating, followed by purging. Purging is anything that overcompensates for the food consumed.
Mar 5, 20209 min read


What is Anorexia Nervosa?
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is the fear of becoming fat and/or perceiving yourself as fat when you aren't necessarily so.
Feb 29, 20208 min read


What is Binge Eating Disorder?
Binge eating disorder is when an individual consumes a large amount of food in a short time accompanied by feelings of loss of control.
Feb 26, 20206 min read


How to Stop Binge Eating
After binge eating, normal eating doesn’t seem possible anymore. The obvious solution may be to stop the extremes, but how?
Feb 20, 20207 min read


How to Accept Your Body: Mirror Exercise
Want to love your body? Get naked and stand in front of the mirror for five minutes, then write down all the parts of yourself you love!
Feb 17, 20204 min read
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