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If food feels like a fight you have to win every day, working with a binge eating therapist can help you understand why. Instead of giving you another food plan to follow, therapy can help you look at what’s driving your eating and build a calmer relationship with food. Maybe you binge at night after […]

If you’ve spent years hearing that health starts with weight loss, you might wonder: What is Health at Every Size? Health at Every Size, often called HAES, is an approach to health that moves the focus away from weight and toward care, well-being, access, and respect. For many people, this idea can feel very different […]

Perfectionism and binge eating can become closely connected when food starts to feel like something you need to get right. You may create strict rules around eating, work hard to follow them, and feel like you’ve failed as soon as you step outside those rules. The problem is that eating doesn’t fit neatly into a […]

Fatphobia can shape how we see bodies, health, food, and our own worth. Because these messages are so common, they can be easy to miss. Maybe you learned that being thin meant being healthy or attractive. Over time, jokes about larger bodies or pressure to lose weight may have shaped how you feel about your […]

If you’ve spent years trying one diet after another, you may wonder why diets don’t work even when you follow the rules. You may start with hope, lose some weight, and feel like you’ve finally found the answer. Then hunger gets stronger, food takes up more space in your mind, and old eating habits return. […]

Binge eating triggers can make the urge to eat feel sudden and hard to control. But these urges often have a reason, from stress and difficult emotions to hunger, food rules, and restriction. Understanding what’s behind them can help you respond with more curiosity and less guilt. Here are nine common triggers of binge eating […]

If you’ve ever stood in front of the mirror and immediately started criticizing what you see, you know how exhausting that inner dialogue can be. Body image healing may feel impossible if you’ve spent years believing your body is the problem and that if you could just lose weight or look different, you’d finally feel […]

Stress eating is something many people deal with, even if they don’t always notice it. Stress eating can feel confusing because it often happens without much thought. One minute you’re feeling overwhelmed, and the next you’re standing in the kitchen looking for something to eat. If this sounds familiar, it doesn’t mean you’ve failed or […]

Chronic dieting can feel normal because so many people around us are doing it. Yet chronic dieting often comes with hidden costs that affect your body, mind, and relationship with food in ways you may not expect. Many people start dieting because they want to feel healthier or happier. Some hope to have more energy. […]

Unconditional permission to eat is one of the hardest parts of intuitive eating. It can also be one of the most healing. If you’ve spent years dieting, counting calories, or trying to control food, the idea of giving yourself unconditional permission to eat can feel scary, confusing, or even wrong. Many people worry they’ll lose […]