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First and foremost: Have some compassion for yourself—and your body.

When people ask what I do for a living, I don’t always tell the whole truth. I might say I’m a journalist (used to be true) or that I work in the eating disorder field (true but vague), but I rarely ...

Some people with an eating disorder have additional pronounced psychological issues that contribute to maintaining their eating disorder and interfere with treatment. One of the most common ...

How can you foster a love for yourself that encourages and strengthens who you are while recovering from an eating disorder? The answer is self-compassion. It is time for you to accept yourself and ...

Examples of disordered eating habits include binge eating, fasting, and avoiding a whole food group. Doctors do not clinically define disordered eating as an eating disorder, but it does increase the ...