There are many reasons why recovering from an eating disorder is challenging. We all need food to survive, but those trying to recover from an eating disorder must find a new way to approach food.

Plant-based eating has never been more popular, as people have slowly become more aware of the negative health and environmental impacts of meat and dairy products. But for Melissa Stanger, LCSW, a ...

Lack of motivation in eating disorders often reflects fear, avoidance, or impaired insight, not unwillingness. Many people ...

You might have heard of eating disorder awareness week, when people spread information about eating disorders. But on Tuesday, May 1, there's another awareness effort but for a slightly different ...

The urge to "start over" for the new year feels hopeful. In eating disorders, that same impulse can either support recovery ...

While pop culture has distanced itself from the waif-ish beauty standards of the late-1990s and early 2000s — the days of “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels” — a whopping 30 million people of all ...

Just 12 days after her wedding, Tandi Barron was placed on a feeding tube because of her struggle with an eating disorder. Not long after, she told her husband that if she was ever going to put food ...

Outside correspondent Kate Siber learned to reinhabit her body by being outdoors. But she didn’t expect that healing would also bring a new perspective on nature itself. About ten years ago, at the ...

Lizzy Earhart didn’t know much about Eating Recovery Center when she agreed to get treatment there in October 2020. She’d already received treatment for anorexia at another treatment provider in ...