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The more they limit a food item or food group (mentally or physically), the more they think about it, and the more they feel out of control when they do have it. Sometimes, they give themselves full physical permission but not full mental permission, and this promise of “after this one time I will be better” keeps the client feeling out of control around food as well. You may have experienced this. I see the reverse with my children all the time! How many times have you gone to the store and bought the largest quantity of snack available, only to get it home and after half of the 200 packs of fruit snacks, all of a sudden, your kids hate them and never want to eat them again? I actually once mentally invented a “mom snack trade app” to fix this problem. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625584204580-8BYJQMJ4RVR6AHY92KU2/i+am+sorry.png Blog - Facts About Food Addiction - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625584127205-M9KJ4ENZDBHB2V4EDBAY/eliminate.png Blog - Facts About Food Addiction Often, people will tell me that sugar is not necessary, so eliminating it is helpful. They equate sugar to alcohol and state that “We don’t need it to survive; so if it is causing you to struggle, it’s best to just eliminate it totally.” There are two problems with this; eliminating a food or food group actually predicts that you will binge or feel out of control around that food. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625583957875-3H9NJBV66XL4X13YLK6F/1-copy-2.png Blog - Facts About Food Addiction - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.celestesmiththerapy.com/blog/traveling-with-an-eating-disorder monthly 0.5 2021-07-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625584886356-R5OMHQWXA1HCIHURLQ3P/Know-Your-Triggers-Graphic.png Blog - Traveling with an Eating Disorder Stay Curious, not judgmental. If you struggle or notice ED popping up all over the place. Be kind to yourself, practice self-compassion, and be open to curiously exploring what might be happening. This will help your recovery grow stronger. Shaming and blaming yourself will only keep you sick. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625584963275-GZEGL12BMGK490FAM7PO/Have-Fun-Graphic.png Blog - Traveling with an Eating Disorder Remember to have fun! ED won’t always be around to steal your joy and distract you from the things that matter. Building memories and having a life outside of ED can be huge supports in sustained recovery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625584767820-I6M8ULXH3WR4MN2YSBHO/Have-a-Plan-Graphic.png Blog - Traveling with an Eating Disorder Have a plan. Don’t wing it. If you are still on a meal plan, make sure you are prepared and have a plan for all of your meals and snacks. Even if you aren’t on a structured meal plan, a lot of my clients do better in times of stress and transition to have more structure. Talk to your dietitian before you leave for the trip, even if you no longer see your dietitian on a regular basis, it might be helpful to reach out and have a session where you can make a plan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625584673101-2VXN1X6V1BHFVN17YWXT/Behaviors-Graphic.png Blog - Traveling with an Eating Disorder Practice Presence. When ED is loud and screaming in your ears. Take a deep breath and look around. What do you see? What do you smell? What can you hear? What can you feel? Look for an object to ground you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625584497473-Z5HTQNDEYA7UONUBX5UN/Vacation-Values-Graphic.png Blog - Traveling with an Eating Disorder Recognize that trips often bring up stress, anxiety, or other uncomfortable feelings. My family and I love to take long epic road trips and camp in beautiful places. It is always a challenge to me because sometimes we don’t know where we are going to sleep that night. I don’t always do well with the unknown. https://www.celestesmiththerapy.com/blog/what-is-emdr monthly 0.5 2021-07-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625587054201-SIJOVP5RP9TCLNGK6O9B/EMDR-therapist.png Blog - What is EMDR? The coolest part of EMDR is that as a therapist, I really step out of the way and watch clients harness this incredible power for their brains to heal themselves. I just provide a tool but it is honestly so cool to watch the brain provide it’s own healing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625585552419-66GVZ12CB8I4FGLPJITK/Bilateral-Stimulation-1.png Blog - What is EMDR? - Do you always have to use Eye Movement, I might get dizzy? No. Any kind of bilateral stimulation works. I often use “tappers” which are tiny buzzers clients can hold in their hands and they alternate buzzing from the left to right hand. With some of my young clients, I have also used a feather to brush the back of their hands. You can also use light taps on your legs and arms. I often encourage my younger clients to do something we call “butterfly hugs” or “spider crawls” where they make the shape of a butterfly on their chest with their hands and tap each side of their chest or fold their hands together and alternate raising and lowering all the fingers on each side. Kids find this super calming and it’s helped a lot of my young clients with nighttime anxiety go to sleep. Plus it’s fun and easy to do anywhere. I have even gotten a few of my adult clients on board with this! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625585626177-GXVXR3R3UF8J5LQTR9GD/EMDR-memories.png Blog - What is EMDR? - Will I forget my memories? Will my Memories be changed? No! This is one of the biggest misunderstandings. EMDR will not erase or change your memories. We are only helping you reprocess your thoughts and feelings about these memories. After you reprocess an event you will still have memory of the event, it will just not cause you as much distress as it did before. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625585189590-B1SJVR0WXE6HYLPNVO29/What-is-EMDR.png Blog - What is EMDR? - What do you mean by bilateral stimulation? Yep. It’s hard not to get technical when talking about EMDR and I think this is one of the reasons there is so much mystery and concern about EMDR. It almost sounds like you are getting a medical procedure, but I promise it is much simpler than that. Bilateral stimulation is simply stimulating both sides of the body. For whatever reason scientist have found that this is healing and calming for the body. Weird huh? But now it totally makes sense why we move our eyes back and forth during the most restorative parts of our sleep (REM Sleep) and why we rock babies and sway back and forth when we get nervous! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625587139206-EN2P0FVCF0034LP7WSQF/EMDR-life-change.png Blog - What is EMDR? - Will it really help? EMDR changed my life. I was such a skeptic at first. Now I have seen it change the lives of so many of my clients. It is also great for people who want to try something different from traditional talk therapy. EMDR is effective and great for most people. I can personally say that in 6 months of sessions I reprocessed events that I had spent years talking about in traditional cognitive behavioral therapy. https://www.celestesmiththerapy.com/blog/finding-an-eating-disorder-therapist monthly 0.5 2021-07-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625591592709-JHA2LJ7NE1K0D3407JQK/Tips-for-Finding-an-Eating-Disorder-Therapist.png Blog - Finding an Eating Disorder Therapist - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625591759599-XQLMUK39MJR2CSDQVEQ8/Be-cautious-of-22do-it-all22.png Blog - Finding an Eating Disorder Therapist Be cautious about Therapists that “do it all.” Even when I am looking for my own therapist I am skeptical of people who say they treat dozens of different issues using dozens of different modalities. Here’s why: Believe it or not we therapists don’t learn everything in Grad School. We continue to learn across our lives, at least the best therapists I know do. There is no way to know how to do everything and to be skilled at a certain therapeutic approach often takes six months to a year. Here is how I usually explain this to non therapist-y types: If I want heart surgery I go to a cardiologist. I would be really concerned if my general practitioner tried to do open heart surgery. Therapy is a specialty field and I want my own therapist to be highly trained in whatever struggle I am having. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625591698312-WSRIDICZS4PQNQ65Y57Q/Find-a-therapist-who-has-time-for-you-and-your-treatment-team.png Blog - Finding an Eating Disorder Therapist Your Eating Disorder Therapist should have boundaries and good business practices. They shouldn’t be accidentally double booking clients, running late all the time, or canceling last minute. Look…Life happens! And when it happens to my clients I give them grace. Occasionally, I may have a sick child or a miscommunication in my scheduling. This should never be the norm though. I consider it my duty to interject calm in the midst of the chaos of recovery. I do this first by having good business practices. https://www.celestesmiththerapy.com/blog/the-burden-of-being-beautiful monthly 0.5 2021-07-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625592084914-LETT6A7N0LGPRZHMA62Z/why.png Blog - The Burden of Being Beautiful Women, I have noticed have an almost unfair expectation to be beautiful. You can be successful but it is elusive if you are not beautiful. Our society defines a beautiful American woman as thin, white, young, and able-bodied. If you are missing even one of those elements then you are determined unbeautiful. People are nicer to you if you are more beautiful. Research even shows us that we are more likely to give opportunities to people we deem beautiful, regardless of experience level. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625592268177-0O0W4MG8URPNVYQE9IVA/think.png Blog - The Burden of Being Beautiful Kind Compassionate Empathetic Giving Strong-willed Intelligent Faithful https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625592192032-QC167YH7JIHNNUY3X99T/Comp.png Blog - The Burden of Being Beautiful - Compliments about our appearance have been a tiny breadcrumb trail to acceptance most of our lives. We find ourselves seeking and needing this affirmation almost constantly. It’s cheap acceptance and it reveals more about the person giving it than it will ever reveal about who we truly are. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625592129369-BMI4DQDHJMBG9A0SKIC8/belief.png Blog - The Burden of Being Beautiful - Our beliefs about appearance change the way we treat people. And these beliefs become isolating, for an entire population of people. Why are we so thoroughly obsessed with beauty? To some degree, I believe we are taught to think about this so much. We know that girls are more likely to be given compliments on their physical appearance, while boys are more likely to be complimented on who they are or what they are capable of. https://www.celestesmiththerapy.com/blog/a-hrefhttpwwwcelestesmiththerapycomblogwhat-you-really-need-in-eating-disorder-recoverywhat-you-really-need-in-eating-disorder-recoverya monthly 0.5 2021-07-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625592615454-GYZEKD5HEHM2KJS184K7/gifts.png Blog - What You Really Need in Eating Disorder Recovery</a> I think, if I am being honest, we are overusing this word need and it gets us all sorts of mixed up. It’s messy because I think we begin to confuse all of the wants of this world with needs and then when we really are in need the word has been diminished by its overuse. I am going to kick it way back to grad school and take a peek at one of the many diagrams I had hoped I could learn about and forget because it couldn’t possibly ever be therapeutically useful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625592841895-BY5IERIKF37JVDPGMNSJ/Needs-in-ED-Recovery-asking-the-unaskable-Graphic.png Blog - What You Really Need in Eating Disorder Recovery</a> We have to understand that if those most basic needs aren’t met due to dieting, eating disorder behavior, or scarcity we are asking the nearly un-askable to have people do the deep work of pulling themselves out of a pit. Because if I don’t have the space to say, “I’m hungry” I will never find the space to say the harder things. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625592777998-FA1B4VOFPGK4V005S0MF/Needs-in-ED-Recovery-basic-needs-Graphic.png Blog - What You Really Need in Eating Disorder Recovery</a> It makes the therapeutic work necessary for recovery truly difficult. This is often so validating to clients, it gives words to their experience. They often feel so exhausted. It’s also why I think a treatment team approach is essential. For me to do the work of therapy, the eating piece has to be addressed. So many of my clients want desperately to avoid that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625592666661-CG7JGLN1HH8QN9BTF1X6/Maslows-Hierarchy-of-Needs.png Blog - What You Really Need in Eating Disorder Recovery</a> - Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs. The diagram basically says it all. If our basic physiological needs aren’t satisfied we can’t move up the hierarchy toward higher-level needs. In my work, as an eating disorder specialist, I often share this with families in recovery early on. Many of them are wondering, “Why can’t my loved one get to a place of self-love and knowledge that we love them?” My answer is usually that this client isn’t adequately nourished. If these basic level needs aren’t taken care of, it’s difficult to move to the higher level needs of safety, love and belonging, esteem, or self-actualization. https://www.celestesmiththerapy.com/blog/a-hrefhttpwwwcelestesmiththerapycombloghelping-your-loved-one-recover-through-the-holidayshelping-your-loved-one-recover-through-the-holidaysa monthly 0.5 2021-07-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625593455231-1SR9C1OTUE9E0757Y8W9/2.png Blog - Helping Your Loved One Recover Through the Holidays</a> Social events where food is present are often difficult for people struggling with an eating disorder. Something about the holidays is super hard. I usually spend this time of year writing to clients about how to stay in recovery during this season. Now I want to focus on how loved ones can help family members. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625593527513-UECVQY7QIU3T0LSNU77D/3.png Blog - Helping Your Loved One Recover Through the Holidays</a> I want to say; while I have heard some Holiday horror stories in my time as an Eating Disorder specialist. I want to believe every family is doing their best and this article is intended to help and guide not blame and chastise. We have all done and said things that are harmful, it would be impossible not to. If you read something and feel convicted about something that was said in the past, take the time to address that with your loved one. It’s okay to say “I am so sorry if that harmed your recovery, I want to know how to help you better.” It’s a brave thing to walk alongside someone during the tough times in his or her life. Have self-compassion and take care of yourself. Those are the greatest things you can teach a person in recovery. https://www.celestesmiththerapy.com/blog/keep-your-but-out-of-my-struggles monthly 0.5 2021-07-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625593896628-51F7736URZJ5YF0H3F03/handful.png Blog - Keep Your “But” Out of My Struggles This concept is an Emotionally Focused Therapy approach where you listen to a person’s thoughts and feelings and instead of saying “I can understand why you might feel sad/anxious/upset but…” Duh. Duh Duh. I can hear the death of any validating feelings occurring as I type that. You instead listen to your friend, family member, or loved one and you say “I can understand why you might feel because…because…because…” You will look for three ways to validate. Let’s practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625594093054-GI1372N4KA7H1BJ46STY/fun.png Blog - Keep Your “But” Out of My Struggles Support them. Offer them comfort, reassure them, or give them room to work it out. Fun fact, people are actually more likely to make a change if they came up with the solution. This is actually something therapists are trained in helping client’s do. I can’t tell you how many times parents come to my office wanting instant results. Sure, I can do some things that might make their teen instantly obedient (or I can try my hardest at the risk of ruining the therapeutic relationship). The best solution will be the one the person comes up with after doing a deep search of their own values and acting out of them. This is why most advice isn’t helpful. It doesn’t come from the well of deep resources within our own selves. Small children may need help developing those resources, that’s another talk for another time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625594039364-EUEKBFC0BHIAW2PPZRAE/commit.png Blog - Keep Your “But” Out of My Struggles Here’s the thing. That stuff may all be true and if you are feeling super guilty right now because you do this all the time, understand that we all do this. Have some compassion for yourself. We are all doing the best we can. Commit yourself to being curious about what makes you need to have all the solutions and determine how you can best validate and hear the people in your life. Next time try something like this: “I can understand why you might feel sad and lonely because high school is so tough because this year you didn’t really get to have classes with any of your friends and because it sounds like your best friend has been really ignoring you since she got a new boyfriend. https://www.celestesmiththerapy.com/blog/the-invisible-woman monthly 0.5 2021-07-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625594757733-KI5ONDEKKXA4Z5W7R4GW/celeste.jpg Blog - The Invisible Woman This picture of me with all of my friends in my office I would have second checked with all of them and surely at some point in their lives someone would have said “ugh! Delete that!” I loved sitting in that room with strong and confident women talking about how to change the world. It is a day we discussed wild ideas, brainstormed, laughed, forged dreams, talked about the real deep stuff, and ate delicious Poke bowls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625594825997-FBOFB5EEMY2410TUVR2Z/kid.jpg Blog - The Invisible Woman These other photos are with my kids. There was a time I had no pictures of them with me. Nothing would pass my scrutinizing gaze. This yoga photo I would have immediately seen bumps and lumps and not my fun day with my exuberant little. I would have forgotten about the giggles and the awesome after yoga feeling and focused only on my mom belly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625595182431-9W4KSNF92VAJLQ29DWK4/comic3.png Blog - The Invisible Woman When you look at photographs stop searching for flaws. Look at what you are doing. Think about what that moment represents for you. Remember how you felt in that moment. Ask yourself if all of that needs to be deleted, just because you don’t feel like you look your best. Long after that feeling is gone (and body feelings are always fleeting, coming out of nowhere and leaving just as quickly), you will want documentation of living your life. Your life is waiting for you. The question is, are you going to show up for it? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625594885338-45QZR3C0K0HIAUVLBR7Q/c3.jpg Blog - The Invisible Woman This one with my two littles I would have deleted it because I have a double chin. I will never forget this morning. They were pretending to be cats and running their noses on me then they started having the cutest argument over who loved me first. I felt loved. I am loved. I want to show up for moments like this, I am so grateful I have blurry documentation despite my flaws. Most everyone has a double chin but not everyone has a morning where they feel that loved! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625595016898-GZ5AE8QXD1KGVAMMBB2K/c4.jpg Blog - The Invisible Woman This final photo is a recent favorite. One of the perks of having a teenager in the home is that my hubs and I can regularly steal away for late dates. Some of our favorite late dates are walks and spending a few hours at our town’s indoor rock gym. Forget the photo, there would have been a time where I would not have felt comfortable enough in my own body to rock climb. I would have made excuses and disappeared into my own world of invisibility. Now we have nights of laughter and bonding. I get to share in something my husband truly enjoys and practice building strength in a new way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625594619644-BU5PTNRK7VCVDOUESPL3/comic1.png Blog - The Invisible Woman We have tried every trick in the Pinterest playbook, every photo angle, makeup contouring voodoo, and none of it makes us beautiful and thin enough. So we settle for invisibility, checked out of life waiting for that magic “until” that never ends up happening. I want to show you some photos of some days I decided to show up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625595075775-AKF5Z2B0ME4656EG2CRI/comic2.png Blog - The Invisible Woman - Show up for life. Be seen. I have a challenge for all of my invisible ladies out there. Show up. Do the things that bring you joy, value, and meaning in life. Do them in spite of what you feel and think about your body. In fact, do them BECAUSE of how you feel about your body. The world needs to see you out there, living life. 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Recovery is walking into a room and seeing the faces of your friends and getting excited about spending time with them. Recovery is the most beautiful, difficult, complicated, painful road you will ever walk down. Recovery is 100% worth it. Recovery is 100% possible. 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When Your Loved One is Struggling with an Eating Disorder - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625686364683-9XBM5978FULWFB9UMKTJ/Dos-and-Donts-Cheat-Sheet-Document.png Blog - What if I say the Wrong Thing? When Your Loved One is Struggling with an Eating Disorder - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.celestesmiththerapy.com/blog/wakeupweightwatchers monthly 0.5 2021-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625686723846-WXGJWGC9X62WDIV9COXO/WWW-the-Real-you-Blog-Graphic.png Blog - wakeupweightwatchers - Freaking Weight Watchers. Since the beginning of time, or at least the beginning of life as I know it, Weight Watchers has been trying to convince people that the real them can only be found through weight loss, restriction, and point counting. Now they are giving away free memberships for adolescents this summer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625687147356-8PQ99UNA3VTH80WZRPC8/DCDD0713-63E8-4300-97C4-6200AF74457F.png Blog - wakeupweightwatchers - You can’t change anything externally and expect that to change how you feel internally. Our physical bodies are temporary, ever changing, and not worthy of our constant focus. The way I try to increase my daughters self worth and esteem is by letting her know without a shadow of a doubt her worth is immeasurable and absolute. If she makes her worth about the physical, it can be lost in an instant. If I make her worth and value contingent on what she does, she might never feel like she measures up. However if I make her worth about who she is, that can’t ever be changed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625687433478-85OLHYRL6YNI4K9F6M4X/orange.png Blog - wakeupweightwatchers The same is true of my clients. I won’t teach them that their worth can be reduced to the goal of watching their weight. Where has that ever gotten a single one of us? You can spend your whole life on this endeavor, but I don’t know a single person that would be proud of this pursuit on their death bed. Give the adolescents in your life a chance to live free from dieting. Give them freedom. Give them the ability to know they can trust and be kind to their bodies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625687305061-V5MS04EOHO06HT4ZLDMM/WWW-the-Real-you-Blog-Graphic-copy.png Blog - wakeupweightwatchers - Guys, this has to stop. This is too important. Our kids deserve more than a life of weight watching. They deserve to live fully, to enjoy relationships, to mature and learn. They deserve connection and to dream big. I refuse to teach my children to hustle for worthiness by adding up points and stepping on a scale. That is such a reduced version of living life fully. 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I don’t look like I have an Eating Disorder Atypical anorexia, exists when a person has these symptoms at a “normal” or “larger” body weight. You don’t have to look a certain way to be sick enough to get help. Please don’t wait to get help until you are under a certain weight or size. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625688913438-7DVCTFD1HZLWNI4IAL40/Quote2-2.png Blog - Am I Anorexic? I don’t look like I have an Eating Disorder think it is important to know that a diagnosis is simply a word used to describe a set of behaviors. A diagnosis is a tool to help therapists know what the best treatment would be, it is not meant to determine if someone is “sick enough” or deserving of help. If you are experiencing uncomfortable feelings around your body and food, that is what is most significant and it is worth addressing. You don’t have to have a certain diagnosis to seek improvement in that area. You don’t have to live in constant turmoil over food and your body. You deserve to have peace.There is a freedom that comes with getting the help you deserve. There is freedom in treating your body kindly, which I know seems impossible sometimes. Don’t wait another day to seek help, so many of my clients felt fear to come to treatment and now they say it is the best step they ever took. https://www.celestesmiththerapy.com/blog/jnwpcajrd3cvpwqei03kshknvof7xp monthly 0.5 2021-07-07 https://www.celestesmiththerapy.com/blog/ah5ug760rtzwmr76881j6v8djozk9m monthly 0.5 2021-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625689320629-A8K9OLBH0RID47KRGO9W/2.png Blog - Not Feeling Thankful about Thanksgiving? I know holidays can be very difficult. I have sat with so many clients who have this struggle and I have experienced it first hand. This is not your fault, no one would choose to struggle like this. You have come this far in recovery and you will make it past this difficult season too. Don’t give up. Recovery is one of the hardest things you will ever do but it won’t always be this hard. Someday, you will again be able to enjoy the holidays you once loved. Do whatever recovery thing you need to make it through this day! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625689263766-OKSMMKSVLP1UQ68LCS6P/1.png Blog - Not Feeling Thankful about Thanksgiving? - Recognize Holidays are Hard. Yep. There it is. Validation. This is not just you. Your family may be particularly brutal. Your recovery may be especially delicate. But I want you to know, you are not alone. Many people struggle on this day. Sometimes it becomes a trap, to have tough feelings on a day you are “supposed to feel…” I hope knowing you are not alone, helps you side step that feeling of guilt. 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Realize that Eating Disorders are Serious I hear it all the time “but doesn’t EVERY person have an eating disorder?” I think this confusion exists because eating disorder behaviors are sadly normalized, which makes it even harder to prevent, treat, and diagnose them . This attitude basically belittles the fact that eating disorders are the deadliest mental health disorder. In fact, every 62 minutes a person dies as a direct result of an eating disorder. The “everyone has an eating disorder” argument was created to make light of something very serious. Everyone doesn’t have an eating disorder, but even if everyone did that doesn’t mean they don’t deserve help. 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Get a pen out right now and make a list about what you truly value. When your eating disorder starts to tell you that candy and the way your costume fits are the main thing, look down at your list and smile because the trick is on your eating disorder and the treat is yours! You can never go wrong when you are doing what you value! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625690223547-TUNK6WYUN97R9NV4DOI2/b.png Blog - 6 tips to Handle Halloween with an Eating Disorder - 6. Give Yourself Permission. Whatever this looks like for you. Eating a piece of candy is not capable of harming you, but your eating disorder is. Give yourself permission to enjoy candy if you want it and don’t beat yourself up afterwards. Eating with guilt is not giving yourself full permission. Give yourself permission to take care of you during this season as well, it is the only way to recover and the only way we can ever care for others. https://www.celestesmiththerapy.com/blog/ega17f20wvk1yc9e3itdeq3aufnrwv monthly 0.5 2021-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625690680341-AR7BUNXSXEFSODH5UO34/1.png Blog - Three Steps to Begin Recovery - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d0da01976c540990b4664c/1625690756219-M59BIUZQYGRJJLYDEC13/2.png Blog - Three Steps to Begin Recovery There are many ways to support your recovery, it was pretty tough to pick just three but these will be a great place to start. I hope these tips have helped you feel a little more ready to begin your own road to recovery. Remember, it is possible. Write that down so, when things seem impossible you will know. Full recovery is possible. You can do this. 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