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Strategies for Maintaining Healthy Routines During the Holidays
The holiday season can bring joy, togetherness, and fond traditions, but it can also stir up stress, loneliness, and emotional overwhelm. From family expectations to financial pressure, many people find this time of year challenging. With mindful planning,...
Understanding Levels of Care (LOCs) in Eating Disorder Treatment
Navigating eating disorder treatment can feel overwhelming, especially when you’re unsure what level of support you or someone you love may need. Terms like “PHP,” “IOP,” or “outpatient” may sound clinical, but they’re simply different approaches to healing designed...
Understanding the Connection Between Food, Movement, and Recovery
For many people recovering from an eating disorder, food and exercise can feel like a complicated puzzle. Both are deeply personal, often tied to identity, self-worth, and daily routine. Yet finding a healthy balance between them can feel out of reach. The good news...
Signs and Symptoms of Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)
Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, or ARFID, is one of the lesser-known eating disorders but it’s gaining recognition as more people search for answers to struggles with food. Unlike disorders tied to body image, ARFID is about sensory sensitivities, low...
Flexible Eating Disorder Care: Evening IOP at be Collaborative Care
Recovery from an eating disorder requires care that fits into real life. For many balancing jobs, classes, or family responsibilities, finding time for intensive treatment can feel overwhelming. be Collaborative Care’s Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP) offer a...
Depression and Eating Disorders: Understanding the Overlap
Depression and eating disorders often overlap in ways that complicate recovery. When both are present, a person may feel trapped in a cycle of low mood, self-criticism, and disordered behaviors. Dual-diagnosis care offers a pathway forward, and this article explores...
Self-Esteem and Eating Disorders
Health and wellness trends continue to dominate conversations in 2025. But one of the most overlooked pieces of the puzzle is how our self-esteem and overall life satisfaction shapes the way we eat. This post will explore the connection between mindset and eating...
The Connection Between Eating Disorders and Anxiety
As summer winds down and routines shift into fall schedules, many people start thinking about health goals, whether adjusting eating habits or adding exercise. For most, these changes are manageable. But for those struggling with eating disorders, seasonal focus on...
Eating Disorders and Control
For some people, food, body image, and routines can feel closely tied to control—like something that always needs to be tracked, counted, or managed. Because of this, some also assume that eating disorders are solely about control. While control can be part of the...
Understanding Depression vs Anxiety
As mental health awareness grows, more individuals are recognizing multiple conditions may be present at one time. Depression and anxiety often go hand-in-hand—but these conditions are also closely tied to disordered eating behaviors. Depression vs. Anxiety: How They...