Reclaim You- How Clothes Can Support Body Acceptance
Season 1: Episode 12
Who hasn't experienced the frustration of inconsistent clothing sizes or the pressure to fit into a certain size?
If you've ever felt defined by the number on your clothing tag, this episode is for you.
Lies The World Has Told Me: One Woman’s Journey Through Weight Loss Surgery
At the time, foods with fat were the socially identified enemy, so I religiously consumed cupboards full of fat-free snacks and a fridge full of fat-free dressings and yogurts despite my intense dislike of chewing on cardboard cookies or ingesting the weird viscosity of plasticky condiments.
Reclaim You- Reclaiming You Before & After Bariatric Surgery: What to Consider
Season 1: Episode 11
Our cohost Laura Gordon, a therapist with extensive lived experience, sheds light on this often misunderstood journey. As someone who's been through it all, Laura opens up about her personal journey and the impact it has had on her life, body image, and relationship with food. All leading to becoming an eating disorder therapist in Pennsylvania and body image counselor.
A Trauma Therapist's Favorite Parks & Trails in the Horsham, PA Area
In our fast-paced and often stressful lives, it's essential to find moments of peace and grounding. Coping in the aftermath of trauma can be difficult, and is always brave. We believe that connecting with the natural world can be grounding, regulating and supportive of treatment for PTSD and CPTSD.
How to Build a Positive Relationship With Movement
Now that summer is in full swing, we are too often bombarded with messaging from diet culture about “summer bodies” and all of the ways we “should” be moving our bodies to get those results.
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Reclaim You- Exploring Boundaries
Season 1: Episode 10
In this episode we begin by shedding light on Prentice Hemphill's thought-provoking definition of boundaries as the distance at which one can love oneself and another simultaneously. We tackle the challenging but critical aspect of implementing boundaries, and how it's a fine line between self-care and selfishness, steering clear of the misconception that setting limits is an act of negligence towards others.
Using Values to Guide Recovery from Disordered Eating in Pennsylvania
Why is decision making so hard!?
Sources state that we make upwards of 35,000 decisions per day.
Whether or not this number is accurate, I imagine most of us can attest to how often we make decisions throughout the week. We can also likely call to mind moments we’ve felt lost or directionless. F
Reclaim You- Embracing Your Authenticity
Season 1: Episode 9
Feeling an existential crisis creeping up? Consider it an invitation to pause and check in with yourself.
Tune in as we explore how to rely on ourselves in a healthy way, manage expectations, and break free from people-pleasing habits to come back to yourself.
Stop Body Checking through Body Image Therapy in Pennsylvania
Struggling with body image issues and body dysmorphia can be overwhelming, and at times, debilitating. Body checking is one of the behaviors that many people with and without eating disorders engage in attempt manage their anxiety about their appearance. However helpful it might feel in the moment, body checking typically only fuels more negative thoughts, feelings obsession and hyper-vigilance about the body, making recovery difficult.
Reclaim You- Breaking Free from Body Image Struggles: Body Dysmorphia and Body-Shame
Season 1: Episode 8
Join therapists from Reclaim Therapy, Sarah and Emily, to tackle body image and body dysmorphia head-on. We'll uncover how shame and self-doubt can creep in as we struggle with these issues and explore how therapy can guide us to better understand and manage our feelings.
Navigating Boundaries After Trauma: Trauma Therapy Near Me
In this blog post, we explore what boundaries are and why they're challenging to set after experiencing trauma. We also prove some practical tips for setting and maintaining healthy boundaries, and how a trauma therapist near you who can support you as you navigate recovery and healing.
What are boundaries?
Boundaries are guidelines, rules or expectations that a person creates to identify reasonable, safe and permissible ways for other people to behave towards them, and how they will respond when someone passes those limits.
Reclaim You- The Complexity of The Mother Daughter Dynamic
Season 1: Episode 7
Join us in this heartfelt conversation with Laura as we shed light on this complex topic and explore the power of healing these relationships. We also discuss the importance of recognizing the biases in research and literature on this matter, and the need to include more diverse voices in the conversation.
Experiencing Orthorexia: Treatment for Orthorexia in Pennsylvania
The perfectionist within remembered the ubiquitous message: “It’s important to eat healthy once you get to college”. “That’s it, that’ll do it”, I thought. Beneath the surface, “healthy eating” felt like the perfect solution to all of my struggles. It felt like just the thing that would manage, if not cure, my anxiety.
Naturally, the first class I signed up for was an introduction to nutrition. It was all a part of the plan: “start fresh, start right”. I remember viewing my first quarter schedule with pride at how much I was “taking care of myself” right off the bat.
Reclaim You- Orthorexia: Unraveling the Obsession with Healthy Eating
Season 1: Episode 6
Have you ever found yourself obsessing over the "cleanliness" and "purity" of your food choices? You might be experiencing orthorexia - an intense fixation on healthy eating that can consume our thoughts and lives. Join Sarah and Abby, as we share about orthorexia and explore how this obsession can leave us feeling exhausted and isolated.
Self-Care for Trauma Survivors: Tips and Strategies
Boring self-care involves the small, everyday actions that may not seem glamorous, but can have a big impact on your overall well-being. This can include things like taking your medication as prescribed, getting enough sleep, eating often and adequately, feeling your feelings and engaging in joyful and connecting movement practices.
Reclaim You- The Tangled Threads of Grief, Eating Disorders, Trauma & Body Shame
Season 1: Episode 5
In this powerful episode, your hosts Sarah and Casey dive deep into the intricate connections between grief, trauma, and eating disorders. Join us as we explore the experiences that intertwine these struggles and the often complex journey of recovery.
EMDR Therapy in Pennsylvania: The Importance of Phases 1 and 2
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a therapeutic technique that has been shown to be effective in treating a variety of mental health conditions, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), disordered eating, anxiety, and depression. The EMDR process involves a series of structured phases, each with its own purpose and goal.
Hope and Healing: How Eating Disorder Therapy in Pennsylvania Can Help
Do you struggle with disordered eating or body image concerns?
If so, you're certainly not alone. There are many people who live in Pennsylvania face similar challenging and exhausting thoughts and behaviors each and everyday. But, there is hope for healing and recovery available through eating disorder therapy with a specialized eating disorder therapist in Pennsylvania.
Reclaim You- Strategies to Reclaim You From Diet Culture
Season 1: Episode 4
Welcome back to the Reclaim You podcast with Reclaim Therapy!
We hope this is an unfiltered and uplifting episode that empowers you to rise above the suffocating grip of diet culture. We've been diving deep into the covert ways diet culture infiltrates our lives, but now it's time to ignite the flame of hope inside of you. In this episode, Sarah, alongside Reclaim Therapist, Emily Cinque, lead the charge in reclaiming your life from the clutches of diet culture.
Perfectionism and Eating Disorders: A Complex Battle
For many, the pursuit of perfection has become so routine, that it can be hard to recognize when you’re engaging in perfectionist tendencies and how much it impacts your sense of self and sense of belonging and enoughness in the world.
Whether it’s striving for the thin-ideal, grinding and pushing for achieving or recognition, or pushing to have seemingly unmatched self-control, the pressure to meet society’s, and at times family of origin’s, high standards take a toll and can be overwhelming.