Someone asked me yesterday why people have binge eating disorder,  as if there is one answer, she said, “is it trauma? or is it the media’s preoccupation with being thin? or what?” Okay, so clearly there is no one answer, there are like 100 or one million reasons and they’re all mix and match. But let me tell you here the ones that I’ve come across most often:  1. Backlash from dieting- A long time ago, somebody said that you were

  I have been noticing a lot recently that many of my readers (my teenage girl readers) have been linking some of my posts to their tumblrs.  If you’ve linked to me, I’ve probably read your tumblr. And every time I go through another tumblr of someone dealing with depression, an eating disorder or self-harming behaviors, my heart breaks.  Not because I feel pity for you, but because I’m having an empathy attack. Like you, I was once a teenage girl. And it sort

After about six months of seeing Michael and Claudia for couples counseling, Michael called me up crying, “She won’t stop, no matter what I do, I can’t get her to stop, she’s going to die! Please help me, how can I get her to stop? ” Michael and Claudia, both 35 years old with two children had been together since they were 17 years old. Claudia had been bulimic for the past twenty years, but despite them being together for more

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I got an email this weekend from a young woman by the name of Tess Glinert. She’s 16 years old and now in recovery from anorexia. She recorded this very moving song–(it’s her first recording!) all about her recovery. Please do support Tess.  I think she’s incredibly brave not only to recover but to put herself out there like this and to give a message of hope to everyone out there trying to recover. You are awesome Tess! So glad