Treatment fails eating disorder patients. We can do better
This is another post in which I'm going to talk about the flaws in treatment that all too often we stay quiet about. I've been told so many times that…
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Writing on eating disorder recovery for adults — the recovery process, neural rewiring, extreme hunger, weight restoration, and more.
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Bodybuilding, gyms, and eating disorders: A guy's perspective [Podcast]
In this week's podcast, Tabitha talks to Ari Snaevarsson about bodybuilding, gyms, and his perspective on how the fitness culture influences people with…
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Anorexia recovery: Act on the truth, and only the truth
I know your truth. Your truth is that you are tired and hungry — no, exhausted and starving — and all you really want to do is sit on the coach and eat…
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Eating disorder treatment should never punish eating [Podcast]
In this podcast episode, Tabitha talks to a person in recovery about past treatment experiences, and how these led to this person being taught that…
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What Yoga Teachers Need to Know About Eating Disorders
I'm writing this as a resource for yoga instructors. It is by no-means complete and you are likely going to have to browse this blog and my podcasts to…
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Why eating disorder treatment fails people by making eating more complicated [Podcast]
In this podcast, Tabitha talks to a person in recovery who shares some information about how treatment has made her even more confused about how to eat. It…
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Eating disorder treatment professionals: Stop telling people "binge" eating is bad
I've written about binge/feast eating many times before. There is a whole chapter in my book about it. I'm still going to keep blogging about this…
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Notes on Full Recovery [Podcast]
In this podcast, Tabitha talks about full recovery.
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Anorexia recovery: Be the agent rather than the victim
This is post about empowering you to know that if you want to recover, and if you take the actions needed in order to recover, you will. In order to fully…
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The scale: To weigh or not to weigh in recovery [Podcast]
In this podcast, Tabitha Farrar talks to Bridget Whitlow about weighing in recovery Bridget Whitlow, MS, LMFT is a licensed psychotherapist that provides…
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Full Recovery: Mental Flexibility
Full recovery is so so so much more than gaining weight. There are cascading and wonderful mental state shifts and changes that actually lead to the mental…
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Full recovery means even stressful situations aren't as stressful
We haven't had to move house for a long time. On purpose, because everyone knows how horrid moving house is. Well, we just did it again this month. This…
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Dr Adele LaFrance: Emotion Focused Family Therapy
In this podcast Tabitha Farrar talks to Dr Adele LaFrance about Emotion Focused Family Therapy in eating disorder treatment. Links to resources:…
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Emotional Eating [Podcast]
In this podcast, Tabitha Farrar talks about emotional eating, and why it isn't really a thing Transcript with thanks to Marie: Hello welcome to this week’s…
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"My therapist was more scared of my weight gain than I was ..." and other recovery stories
This blog is a collection of things that people have told me — unedited — in the last couple of weeks. This collection circles around what I see to be one…