Binge Restrict Cycle: Types of Restriction in Binge Eating Recovery
When starting the very hard work of normalizing your relationship with food, being curious about how restriction is playing a role in your eating behaviors is one of the most helpful places to start.
Most people don’t equate restriction with all of the eating disorders, but the truth is that restriction is at the foundation of disordered eating, anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder and orthorexia (along with many other things!).
How Trauma Affects The Brain and Memories
Many people who have experienced trauma struggle with fragmented memories, intense emotions, and physical sensations they can't explain. Understanding the sciencey, neurobiology of trauma, can provide insights into these experiences and start to clear a path for healing.
How to Stop Binge Eating at Night
Binge eating at night is a challenge many people face.
This way of eating involves consuming a lot of food rapidly until you feel uncomfortable. Afterward, you may experience feelings of guilt and shame. It can become a cycle of behaviors that can feel hard to end or escape.
Signs of Safety to Look for in Trauma Recovery
There are moments in recovery from trauma and eating disorders that are easy to miss.
You might feel your shoulders drop after a hard conversation. Or find yourself breathing through a grocery store line instead of dissociating. Or realize you’re actually tasting your food.
Nervous System Regulation Isn’t Just About Being Calm
If you’ve been showing up for therapy, practicing self-awareness, setting boundaries, and still find yourself overwhelmed or disconnected, it’s easy to wonder if you’re missing something, or not doing something “right”.
What Does Dissociation Feel Like? Why You Might Feel Unsafe in Your Body After Trauma
Feeling disconnected from your body is far more common than most people realize.
Research shows that nearly half of people with trauma histories experience significant dissociation - a protective process where your system pulls you away from overwhelming thoughts, emotions, or sensations.
The Grief of Emotional Neglect and Why It Still Hurts
You don’t remember a tragic event.
There was no funeral. No big goodbye.
You were clothed. Fed. Maybe even told you were loved.
And yet... there’s this ache.
Why Postpartum Body Image Can Feel So Hard
If you’re struggling with how you feel in your body after having a baby, whether it’s been six weeks or six years, please know: there is nothing wrong with you.
Can Guys Have Eating Disorders? What You Need to Know
If you’ve ever quietly wondered, "do men get eating disorders?" the answer is yes.
Absolutely, yes.
If you’re a man struggling with you’re relationship with food and your body, we see you.
Understanding the Differences and Overlaps of CPTSD vs BPD
If you’ve ever found yourself wondering whether you have complex PTSD (CPTSD) or borderline personality disorder (BPD), or if you’ve been given conflicting diagnoses, many people have had similar experiences.
How to Recognize and Heal from Emotional Flashbacks
Maybe someone’s tone of voice sets something off inside you, or you make a small mistake and suddenly feel like a complete failure, unworthy of love or belonging.
No clear memory. No obvious trigger. Just an emotional landslide that feels impossible to stop.
The Trap of Hyper Independence and and How it Affects Our Relationships
If you grew up feeling like you couldn’t rely on anyone, it makes sense that as an adult, you might operate like you don’t need anyone.
Hyper-independence, being so self-reliant that you struggle to ask for or receive help, often gets framed as a strength.
People admire it.
They call you “capable,” “driven,” and “strong.”
Eating Disorder Recovery is The Greatest Act of Self Care
Self-care. It’s benefits are everywhere.
Bubble baths, face masks, cozy blankets.
And sure, those things can be great.
But the deepest, most radical self-care?
It’s not always cute.
How to Heal from Narcissistic Abuse After Feeling Like You’ve Lost Yourself
Narcissistic abuse doesn’t just end when the relationship does.
The damage lingers: self-doubt, emotional exhaustion, nervous system burnout, and a nagging feeling that maybe it really was all your fault.
It’s not.
5 Signs of Narcissistic Abuse (And How to Begin Healing)
Narcissistic abuse is one of the most confusing and damaging forms of emotional manipulation.
It doesn’t leave visible scars, but it deeply impacts your sense of self, making you question your reality, your worth, and even your ability to trust your own mind.
Why You Might Feel Like You Don’t Belong
You know that feeling…That moment when you walk into a room, maybe a party, a meeting, even a family gathering, and suddenly, it hits.
“Everyone else seems to know something I don’t.
They belong here. I don’t.”
How To Heal Your Inner Child
Lately healing the inner child has been trending on social media. Tik tok’ers and tik tok therapists are sharing tips and touting that the way to heal from trauma is to heal your inner child.
But, what exactly does that mean? Why is it important? Is it really that easy? (spoiler alert- it’s important and often not as easy as they say it is!)
How Childhood Emotional Neglect Can Show Up In Adulthood
Emotional neglect is one of the most overlooked but deeply impactful forms of trauma.
Unlike other forms of trauma, it’s not about something that happened—it’s about what didn’t.
10 Ways to Cope With Seasonal Affective Disorder
You might think of it as sadness during the winter or the “winter blues”.
These assumptions are true, but there is also much more to the definition of Seasonal Affective Disorder.
There are actually two types of SAD.
What is Maladaptive Daydreaming?
Do you ever feel like your mind pulls you into a world of vivid stories or fantasies, leaving reality behind? Or do you ever find yourself so disconnected that everything around you seems unreal.
These experiences might seem similar, but they’re not quite the same.