Have you ever felt that your therapist didn’t understand you or offended you? Read this open letter addressing the various ways in which therapists have made people feel excluded.

We all experience breakdowns. Read about ways to prevent breakdowns as well as what we can learn from them.

Many people envision a frail, emaciated young woman who is wasting away to nothing. You might be surprised to know that many people with eating disorders look just like you.

By now, you, along with most people have been exposed to the idea of Body Acceptance. But do you really know what it means to accept your body?

Once you’ve decided that you are ready to make some changes, there are steps you can take to ensure that you are making the MOST out of your therapy sessions.

When you consider childhood trauma, it relates perfectly to learning a language. Regardless of the type of trauma, whether it was ongoing abuse and/or neglect or a specific event, you learned something about yourself and the world.

Are you comfortable with the word FAT? Do you use it? Is it positive, negative or neutral for you? If you are like most people, describing yourself or someone else as fat is an insult of the worst kind. Read about how neutralizing the word can help you as well as society.

I look at myself in old photos and see a beautiful, innocent and healthy girl. I wonder what my relationship with food and my body would be like today if I was told that I was beautiful and encouraged to love my body.

You live in a world that is not ready to accept the diversity of size. You are blamed and teased because of your weight, but are offered no solutions. You started as a young, innocent child who was trained to see herself as an ongoing project, a never ending disappointment because of her strong, healthy bigger body.