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We are pleased to announce that Overcoming Overeating: How to Break the Diet/ Binge Cycle and Live a Healthier, More Satisfying Life (Code: OVO) is finally in stock. This paperback, 20-year anniversary edition by Jane Hirschmann and Carol Munter has been updated and has a new introduction. Click here for more info

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Recent posts include:

"Ways to Help Our Young Children with Body Woes"

"Honesty About Eating"

"The Many Faces of Eating Disorders"

"Group Psychotherapy in a Team Approach to Treatment"

Videos

Click here to see Craig Johnson discuss recovery from chronic eating disorders.

 

Featured Treatment Facilities

Harmony Grove 800-990-8052 4241 Jutland Dr. #320 San Diego, CA 92117 www.harmony-grove.com

Harmony Grove in beautiful San Diego, CA has expanded its services. Our programs include an 8 bed supportive living residence and an outpatient day program. We are a wonderful treatment alternative for your less severe clients and for those transitioning from other programs. We work with medically stable adult women with anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorders. Our comprehensive outpatient program includes individual therapy, dietitian services, group therapy, DBT, body image groups and relapse prevention. Our residence provides 24-hour staff, supervised meals, a structured schedule, and transition counseling in a real life setting. Our highly qualified team is caring, compassionate and specialized in eating disorders. And the great news is that Harmony Grove provides all of this for under $300 per day!! Please visit our website at www.harmony-grove.com or call us at 800-990-8052 for more information.

Eating Disorder Center of Denver 866-771-0861 950 S. Cherry St, Ste. 1010 Denver, CO 80246 www.edcdenver.com

The Eating Disorder Center of Denver is the only facility in Colorado that offers partial hospitalization while providing the best of conventional and integrative therapies.  The center treats male and female patients, 16 years and older, and family members affected by anorexia, bulimia and binge eating.  The partial hospitalization program provides comprehensive treatment on an outpatient basis, 7 days a week, 11 hours a day.  The center also offers an evening intensive outpatient program three days a week, 4 hours a day, and outpatient services/aftercare for those patients who do not require a more intensive treatment program.  

Working together, our clinicians create specialized treatment plans that fit each patient’s physical, emotional, social, spiritual and nutritional needs.  Patients learn to practice and internalize recovery skills until they can incorporate these behaviors into their way of life.  For more information or to schedule a complimentary assessment, call 866.771.0861 or visit the center's web site at www.edcdenver.com.

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Inspirational Corner

Photo by Leigh Cohn, ©2008 Gürze Designs More pictures at www.eatingdisordersblogs.com

From the Spirituality and Recovery Blog by Carolyn Costin and Keesha Broome

“The Dali Lama says that transforming thoughts is one of his favorite practices. For someone with an eating disorder, this practice is easier said than done. It would seem easier for them to try to fly than to try and change their thoughts, they are like a broken record playing constantly in their head. These thought patterns didn’t happen overnight; it took months and often years for them to become so pervasive, and so replacing negative thoughts with healthy ones also requires time and practice.

Because these negative thoughts are automatic, clients need to start with reflection. I ask them to pay attention to what feelings come up for them in a given day and what thoughts are behind them. An important concept I use when treating clients is that of eating disorder voice versus healthy/soul voice. I spend many sessions helping clients tune into these two voices. When they are better able to distinguish between the healthy voice and the eating disorder voice I have them connect how thoughts based on anger, annoyance, judgment or fear affects them…The goal is not to teach people how to avoid negative thoughts or to deny parts of themselves but rather to help them recognize how these thoughts are shaping their decisions and actions and to find more positive ways of coping. It is not thought stopping; it’s thought recognition and replacing.

The other difficult part for people with eating disorders is having compassion for themselves. They are often the most compassionate, empathic, giving people - to everyone else in the world but not to themselves. A person with an eating disorder has lost the ability to treat her body and her spirit with kindness and gentility. And so, it is crucial to help guide her back to self-love, leading by example. By making conscious choices to stop negative thought patterns and to replace damaging beliefs with healthy ones, they begin inviting compassion into their lives. When a person’s soul has been reawakened to kindness, this can be used to prevent negative states from shaking peace of mind. Through compassionate determination, anger can be transformed into passion, annoyance to patience, judgment to understanding.

This is the law of attraction...you get what you are thinking. So when a client says she wants recovery, help her see how her compassionate thoughts will make this possible.”