Eating Disorders & Body Image
Articles on eating, food and body image
Honest, recovery-minded reading for women and students who are wondering whether their relationship with food or their body has stopped feeling like their own. Nothing here is meant to diagnose you, and none of it replaces care from a professional who knows your story.
Articles in this topic
What does a healthy relationship with food look like?
A gentle description of what peace with food can look like when rules and guilt have run things for a long time.
Body image on the hard days
Practical, non-shaming ways through a day when your body feels unbearable to you.
When exercise stops being about health
Signs that movement has shifted from caring for your body to obligation, punishment or repayment.
Eating concerns in college
Why the transition to college so often destabilizes eating, and where a student can get help.
Binge eating and the shame that follows
Why episodes of out-of-control eating happen, why restriction makes them more likely, and how recovery work approaches them.
What recovery actually looks like
An honest picture of recovery: uneven, gradual, supported, and much more livable than the fear of it suggests.
Do you have to look a certain way to have an eating disorder?
Why appearance is not a reliable indicator, and why so many women wait far longer than they needed to.
How to support a daughter or friend with an eating disorder
What helps, what tends to backfire, and how to talk about it without turning every meal into a negotiation.
Food, control and anxiety
How eating rules can start as relief in an overwhelming season, and why the relief does not last.
Mirrors, photos and getting dressed
Why checking and avoiding both make body distress worse, and gentler ways to get through daily routines.
When eating has become more than a diet
Quiet signs that food, eating or your body has started taking up more room in your thoughts than you want it to.
If this is what you are living with right now, you can also read how Lori works with it in counseling: eating disorders & body image. Or browse all of Lori's articles.
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