NEDA Week – Let’s Break the Silence About Eating Disorders
Breaking the silence is one of the best antidotes to the shame and isolation of diseases like eating disorders, substance abuse, trauma, and mood disorders. Denial, minimization, secrecy and shame are...
View ArticleCommunity Impact – TK at the CAPS and IAEDP Conferences
The spring is always full of informative and educational conferences for health professionals working with individuals struggling with eating disorders and related issues. This March, Timberline...
View ArticleEating Disorders: No Longer Just for the Young
I recently had the honor to be included as an expert panel member on Huffington Post’s HP Live, a web-based show. The topic was elder anorexia, which is on the rise throughout our country. In the past,...
View ArticleDistress Tolerance: Acceptance Not Avoidance
People who struggle with addictions, eating disorders, or mood disorders have finely-tuned methods of dealing with emotions by using substances, eating disorder behaviors, or engaging in self harm or...
View ArticleFamily Therapy and Eating Disorders
Families are systems that shape us, motivate us, but also leave us vulnerable with wounds and expectations. Families with a member that has an eating disorder have often been characterized as...
View ArticleHealing Negative Self-talk
In a previous TK blog we explored the concept of fat talk: who engaged in it, the whys behind it and the negative implications surrounding this type of interaction. Although fat talk is external, to a...
View ArticleCautionary Note for Young Female Athletes
Many decades ago, organized sports were synonymous with males; athletics were mostly made up of boys, not girls. Today, teen girls participating in sports is becoming more common. On so many...
View ArticleEarly Identification is Key to Saving Lives
A recent research study validated something that treatment professionals have always known: early identification of eating disorders is crucial; and in fact, may be key to saving young lives. According...
View ArticleARFID: A Growing Threat to Young People
Throughout the United States, those in the medical and behavioral health fields are very familiar with anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder. Due to extensive media coverage in the past several...
View ArticleEating Disorders in the LGBTQ Community
Eating disorders have long been a component of the female population. Although these disorders manifest through the denial of food, the over-consumption of food or in other myriad ways, at the heart of...
View ArticlePediatricians: The New Anti-bullies in the War On Weight
It’s not uncommon for teasing to be an aspect of a young person’s life, whether within the confines of the family, or on the playground of the schoolyard. Teasing can be connected to minor things such...
View ArticleImportant Court Case Involving Anorexia
National organizations and individual advocates work tirelessly to educate the public on the lethal nature of anorexia. Far too many people continue to perceive this eating disorder as a phase or a...
View ArticleCautionary Note for Young Female Athletes
Many decades ago, organized sports were synonymous with males; athletics were mostly made up of boys, not girls. Today, teen girls participating in sports is becoming more common. On so many...
View ArticleARFID: A Growing Threat to Young People
Throughout the United States, those in the medical and behavioral health fields are very familiar with anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder. Due to extensive media coverage in the past several...
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Eating Disorders in the LGBTQ Community
Eating disorders have long been a component of the female population. Although these disorders manifest through the denial of food, the over-consumption of food or in other myriad ways, at the heart...
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Pediatricians: The New Anti-bullies in the War On Weight
It’s not uncommon for teasing to be an aspect of a young person’s life, whether within the confines of the family, or on the playground of the schoolyard. Teasing can be connected to minor things...
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Important Court Case Involving Anorexia
National organizations and individual advocates work tirelessly to educate the public on the lethal nature of anorexia. Far too many people continue to perceive this eating disorder as a phase or a...
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Early Identification is Key to Saving Lives
A recent research study validated something that treatment professionals have always known: early identification of eating disorders is crucial; and in fact, may be key to saving young lives. According...
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One Word… A Lifetime of Pain
Fat is not a four-letter word; and yet, this single monosyllabic word has the power to devastate people’s lives. In fact, most females can’t think of anything worse than being called fat. Years ago,...
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College and Eating Disorders: When Life is Just Too Much
There are certain pivotal times in a young girl’s life. The advent of puberty is probably the most physically significant. And, transitioning from middle to high school tends to be the greatest social...
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