Eating Disorders
"I can't keep doing this AND I can't stop!"
Think about your attitudes and behaviors around your weight and eating habits. Do you experience:
- Eating when you are not hungry
- Not eating when you are hungry
- Dissatisfaction with your body shape and/or size
- Consuming large quantities of food in a very short period of time and feeling out of control while doing it
- Refusing to eat because of your fear of gaining weight
- Being preoccupied with food and weight
- Eating in secret
- Throwing up after eating
- Excessive exercising
- Family and friends commenting about your weight and/or eating habits
- Lying to yourself and others about how much you have eaten/not eaten
- Feeling out of control when you eat certain foods
- Feelings of shame and guilt about your eating and/or your weight
- Knowing that what you’re doing is harmful, yet being unable to stop
- Pre/post bariatric surgery problems
If any of these statements describe you, you need help. You deserve it, and asking for it shows how strong you are, even though you may not believe you have that strength right now.
Eating disorders and disordered eating are disruptive to daily living at the minimum and life threatening at the maximum. Individuals of any age can benefit from professional help. No one deserves to live with these very treatable diseases. Getting treatment is not easy, nor is not getting it. If you are struggling with your eating habits, we can help restore you and your family to physical, emotional and spiritual health.
Do people recover?
Yes! With help, recovery is possible. Our experience is that eating disorders and obesity are very treatable diseases and people do get well. The disorders are not just about food, they are about how we have learned to manage life’s many complexities and challenges. Through creative, holistic and individualized treatment, we help adolescents, adults and families develop lasting, healthy and rewarding lifestyles.
Hope for parents
For parents, we understand your fears and frustrations. We will work with you as closely as the adult client allows, and even closer if your child is a minor, and we’ll help you move quickly to restore your daughter or son to mental and physical health. Along the way, we’ll also help you learn to cope and take better care of yourself through this difficult time.