How does one develop boundaries that accept personal responsibility all while avoiding taking on other people's problems?
Read moreChicken or Egg? Brain Re-Training to Get to Remission
How thoughts, feelings, behaviors and Quantum Zeno Effect relate to brain re-training for getting to full remission from an eating disorder.
Read moreChronic Illness & Anxiety
In this post I look at the act of trying to improve the health outcomes of a chronic condition with healthy foods and supplements.
Read moreCompulsory Quantified Self
Update: this campaign was successful in lobbying Apple to allow users to turn off step counting on iOS/8. Broader topics of being monitored & the lack of science to support these health tracking devices in this post too.
Read moreTechniques 2: When finite energy goes up against drive to survive.
Snarfing is to eat quickly. What about when you are snarfing your food so fast you risk choking and the emotional timbre is one of feeling monstrously out-of-control? Where’s the flight/fight/freeze reaction in those cases? Isn’t that just binge eating disorder?...
Read moreTechniques 1: Approaching the Food, Eating the Food
Hunger cues will return. But forcing down every bite is the way of early recovery. Why is that? It feels so monstrously wrong— as if you were trying to sleep when you are not tired...
Read moreDialectical Behavior Therapy: Shame, Guilt and Emotional Distress
Just as some people are born with heightened sensitivity to physical stimuli (loud noises, itchy labels on clothes…) others are born with heightened sensitivity to emotional stimuli...
Read moreTarget Weight: recover but not too much
Aiming for a target weight includes the unwritten subtext that at some magical point you must restrict intake in order to maintain said target weight. It is one of the most serious problems of unscientific approaches to recovery from an eating disorder: that weight is supposed to be within our conscious control (it's not)...
Read moreDoes the Homeodynamic Recovery Method Apply to Me?
This exceedingly common question has a trick answer. If you have an eating disorder, then the food intake guidelines don't actually apply to you (Whaa?)...
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