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A Mother's Day Gift That Keeps Giving
Most mother's day gifts fade, but could you provide a gift that lasts? When food and eating are issues for you, a conversation with or letter to your mother could be a gift for her and also a gift for you.

Spirituality and Healing for Eating Disorders
Applying spirituality in healing eating disorders demonstrates that spirituality is capable of helping to move mountains. Eating disorders are often difficult to treat. This interview shows how spirituality contributed to one person's healing.

The Psychology of Eating Disorders: Stress Relief and Control of Emotions
A common theory of the psychology of eating disorders is that they help to relieve stress (despite the stress they cause). How do eating disorders accomplish this while harming those who seek relief?

To Stop Binge Eating, Learn What You're Missing
We think of binge eating (or compulsive overeating) as gluttonous, wasteful, and indulgent, but to stop binge eating, it's more helpful to recognize where it deprives a person of core desires. Binge eating's numbness takes away the ability to pursue genuine wants and needs.

Relapse in Eating Disorders
Relapse in eating disorders is relatively common. It is not the end of recovery, however, for those who choose to move forward. Knowing what leads to eating disorder relapse and how to bounce back from it are powerful tools.

How to Help Someone With an Eating Disorder
It can be difficult to help a family member or friend with an eating disorder. What we want to do to help can sometimes be harmful. Helping someone with an eating disorder requires patience, persistence, and knowledge of your limitations.

A Different Guide to Healthy Eating
We're all looking for a guide to eating in more healthy ways. But what does "healthy" mean? Here's an approach you won't find on weight loss ads.

The Summer Body Image Letdown
Summer is no picnic when you believe your body image is poor. But is going on that crash diet the answer? How do you enter into summer with confidence, even without a perfect body image?

Recovering Together in Groups
Recovery can feel lonely, but a genuine recovery will involve others who provide support and encouragement when things don't go as planned.

New Year's Resolutions That You (and Your Body) Can Handle
Are there other New Year's resolutions for eating well besides "eat more of this" and "don't eat any more of that"? New Year's resolutions have a reputation for being abandoned. Why not set some you can keep?

Dealing With Christmas With an Eating Disorder
Christmas and eating disorders -- not the most friendly mix. Much of the stress of Christmas comes from feeling out of control, which is especially hard with an eating disorder. Here's how to get some back.

Handling Eating Disorders on Halloween
Halloween and eating disorders aren't much fun together. With its emphasis on foods that make it easy to binge, Halloween presents a unique challenge. But it's an obstacle that doesn't have to ruin your self-image. Use the day to your advantage.

Recovery Through Self Worth
Follow a person's journey through diabetes to anorexia to bulimia to health and self-worth.

Ways to Celebrate When Your Partner Has an Eating Disorder
If someone special to you has an eating disorder, it can be hard to celebrate holidays, birthdays, and other occasions. But you still have choices that can spice up the day.

Ways to Handle Valentine's Day With an Eating Disorder
For those with eating disorders, Valentine's Day is just as hard as other holidays, because it often involves food. But Valentine's Day is unique in that it also celebrates relationships. That can make it even harder for someone with an eating disorder.

Preventing a Relapse
Though relapses are common, there are a number of steps you can take to guard against them and, if necessary, overcome them.

Recovery for Multiple Addictions
Some see eating disorders as addictions due to the compulsive behavior involved. Looking at things through the lens of an addiction perspective sheds a unique light on what it means to be in long-term recovery.

The Goals and Hazards of Long-Term Recovery
An honest and comprehensive look at the components of a successful recovery and the tools needed to get the best possible outcome.