A Time for Gratitude and Healing : Tips for a Recovery-Focused Thanksgiving
For many, Thanksgiving is a joyous holiday spent with family and friends, enjoying food, and sharing gratitude. But for those who have an eating disorder, it may evoke a mixture of emotions (stress, fear, anxiety, etc.) making it challenging to remember the reason for the season. However, with planning, support, and grace, it can also be an opportunity to reclaim food freedom and body kindness. We would like to offer some insights and tips to help you navigate this Thanksgiving with self-compassion in mind.
Unmasking Joy: Reclaiming Halloween (with self compassion, body neutrality, confidence and compassion)
With Halloween just around the corner, costumes, candy, and festive events are in full swing. But for those who struggle with disordered eating and body image, the season can bring up more than just fun—often, it stirs up haunting thoughts about how we look or feel in our bodies and what we should or should not eat. No matter our age, Halloween can become a time when we feel vulnerable to judgment, both from ourselves and others.
Art Therapy: Trust the Process
Eating disorders often thrive in isolation and secrecy, sometimes manifesting as an internal voice that encourages eating disorder behaviors and increases anxiety. For many clients we work with at Farrington, they have never spoken some of these thoughts out loud to another person. It requires time and patience to uncover this inner voice and learn to understand it, then counteract those thoughts and behaviors.
Celiac Disease and Eating Disorders: Exploring the Complex Intersection
The relationship between eating disorders and celiac disease (CeD) is a complicated one. Symptoms can be similar while the treatment is vastly different. Eating disorders are serious physical and mental disorders that are not often visible to the eye. Here lies the first intersection between eating disorders and CeD. They are both serious and wreak havoc on the physical, social, and psychological well being of the individual if left untreated, while being challenging to detect.