Now Available on Bulimia.com

At the May AED conference in Seattle, we ran out of or didn't have copies of a few key professional titles. Our apologies! We now have stock on hand, and you can order them from our website:

Clinical Handbook of Eating Disorders
"Emphasizing that accurate diagnosis is the foundation for effective treatment regimens, this reference reviews the most current research on the assessment, etiology, risk factors, neurodevelopment, and course of the illness."

NEW!

Recent posts include:

"Allowing Others to 'Make' Us Feel Responsible"

"Exercise and Working Out: Is There Such A Thing As Too Much?"

"A Team Approach to Eating Disorders Treatment"

Videos

Click here to see best-selling author Anita Johnson discuss eating disorders and understanding your inner hungers.

Why She Feels Fat
$14.95 $7.48
Eating disorders are serious, life-threatening illnesses that often make no sense to family and friends...

Don't Diet Live-it!
$18.95 $9.48
This workbook is full of information, moving personal stories, and insightful worksheets...

Change Your Mind, Change Your Body
$14.00 $7.00
Midlife is a time of opportunity to renew, grow strong, set new goals, and redefine who you are...

Featured Treatment Facilities

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.

RADER PROGRAMS 800-841-1515 www.RaderPrograms.com Rader@raderprograms.com

The staff at Rader Programs has been providing multidisciplinary eating disorder treatment for over 20 years. Our staff of caring and experienced eating disorder professionals includes psychiatrists, psychologists, internists, registered dietitians, registered nurses, master level counselors, family counselors, and exercise counselors who recognize the complexity of eating disorders and understand the emotional, physical, nutritional, exercise, family and social components. Our treatment approach is centered on the special needs of each individual and we provide a nurturing, supportive environment to help individuals and their families achieve life long recovery. For a free confidential consultation please call 800-841-1515.

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Therapist Directory
Featured Therapist

Joanna Poppink, MFT
Los Angeles, CA 90064

My private practice is dedicated to adults working to recover from bulimia, binge eating, anorexia and EDNOS...

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Inspirational Corner

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

Speaking From Your Heart
Tony Paulson, author of  “Your Role in a Loved One’s Recovery” on EatingDisordersBlogs.com

Families often ask me how they should be responding to their loved one and his or her eating disorder. They are concerned about saying the wrong thing and making the eating disorder worse, and as a result they often remain silent when in actuality they have a lot to say. They are worried, sad, mad, frustrated and feel helpless. Family members feel that they can only be silent observers as the eating disorder takes over more of their loved one's life.

Silence is not the answer. However, how you communicate your concerns to your loved one is important. Reasoning with the eating disorder or using logic to try to understand it will only lead to more confusion and frustration. The eating disorder lives in your loved one's head. An eating disorder is comprised of negative thoughts that the person has a hard time ignoring. Thus, fighting it on that level seldom yields the intended results. Your loved one believes the negative thoughts, and any contrary information is ignored or distorted to fit his or her negative belief system.

However, speaking from your heart to your loved one's heart bypasses the eating disorder and is an effective way of communicating and staying connected to the sufferer through the struggles of the eating disorder. Communicating your love and your commitment to stand by your loved one throughout the recovery process is essential. Remember, they are as scared as you are. They may not admit it, but it is the truth. He or she does not want to live the life the eating disorder offers but does not feel there is any alternative. They are watching this happen as you are. Thus, coming together, committing to walk the path to recovery together provides your loved one a sense they are not alone.