Eating Disorders
Emotional Eating, Anorexia, Bulimia,
Compulsive Overeating, Binge Eating Disorder
Emotional Eating, Anorexia, Bulimia,
Compulsive Overeating, Binge Eating Disorder
EATING DISORDERS: THE SPECTRUM
We all have a relationship to food. We eat to survive. But we
also eat to affirm life, relationships, family, celebrations and other
rites of passage. Food represents love, community and culture.
Eating Disorders are symptoms of a relationship with self that is distorted and a
relationship with food that is destructive. Destructive relationships with food run the
spectrum from emotional eating to severe cases of anorexia, bulimia, compulsive
overeating, and binge eating disorder.
Honestly addressing body image, self esteem, thought patterns, habitual
behaviors, family-of-origin and current relationships is the key to restoring healthy
eating, productive social and work relationships, and the ability to love ourselves
unconditionally.
ORIGINS OF AN EATING DISORDER
How food is used in your family - as comfort, reward, punishment, to avoid
communication or conflict - influences your relationship to eating and to food.
Magazines, commercials, television and movies tell you that an unrealistically thin
body is the key to happiness. A traumatic experience causes you to turn to food
as the one thing that can't hurt you. Ironically and unfortunately, an Eating Disorder
begins as a friend but always becomes an enemy.
It takes courage and commitment to make the decision to recover from an Eating
Disorder. Recovery involves changing behavior, feeling painful emotions, learning
to communicate and to deal with conflict without using your Eating Disorder.
Since Eating Disorders are complex and embedded in habits, relationships,
experiences, memories, family systems and culture, they require a holistic and
integrated team approach. Why and how you use food must be addressed at all
levels: nutritional, behavioral, psychological, emotional and spiritual.
Consider what Wright Counseling has to offer you:
call (206) 229-5583 or email wrightcounseling@aol.com
We all have a relationship to food. We eat to survive. But we
also eat to affirm life, relationships, family, celebrations and other
rites of passage. Food represents love, community and culture.
Eating Disorders are symptoms of a relationship with self that is distorted and a
relationship with food that is destructive. Destructive relationships with food run the
spectrum from emotional eating to severe cases of anorexia, bulimia, compulsive
overeating, and binge eating disorder.
Honestly addressing body image, self esteem, thought patterns, habitual
behaviors, family-of-origin and current relationships is the key to restoring healthy
eating, productive social and work relationships, and the ability to love ourselves
unconditionally.
ORIGINS OF AN EATING DISORDER
How food is used in your family - as comfort, reward, punishment, to avoid
communication or conflict - influences your relationship to eating and to food.
Magazines, commercials, television and movies tell you that an unrealistically thin
body is the key to happiness. A traumatic experience causes you to turn to food
as the one thing that can't hurt you. Ironically and unfortunately, an Eating Disorder
begins as a friend but always becomes an enemy.
It takes courage and commitment to make the decision to recover from an Eating
Disorder. Recovery involves changing behavior, feeling painful emotions, learning
to communicate and to deal with conflict without using your Eating Disorder.
Since Eating Disorders are complex and embedded in habits, relationships,
experiences, memories, family systems and culture, they require a holistic and
integrated team approach. Why and how you use food must be addressed at all
levels: nutritional, behavioral, psychological, emotional and spiritual.
Consider what Wright Counseling has to offer you:
 | Affordable Individualized Treatment Program | |
| Referral network: nutrionists, doctors, psychiatrists, body awareness | |
| experts | ||
| Individual, Couple, Group and Family Therapy | |
| Free 20 minute Consultation: |
| 14 years of experience with Eating Disorders. See About Us | |
| IMAGINE LIFE WITHOUT AN EATING DISORDER Wright Counseling provides you with the tools to transform a negative body image into a loving self image, and to turn destructive eating patterns into a nourishing relationship with food. We design an individualized treatment plan for you and provide you with professional support throughout the process of recovery. By collaborating with experts in nutrition, medicine, psychiatry, and body awareness, Wright Counseling provides a comprehensive approach to loving yourself from the inside out. Imagine life without your Eating Disorder? Being free to make choices, take risks, concentrate on work and engage in loving relationships without constantly battling the negative voice of an Eating Disorder? When you leave an Eating Disorder behind you are free to live, laugh, and love. Imagine that ... |
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