Feeling out of control around food can trigger a lot of emotions – it’s scary and often really triggering. It can be equally triggering to have constant thoughts about food. So it makes sense that people want to do what they can to maintain that…

Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) is a relatively new eating disorder (ED) diagnosis that was added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) in 2013. This diagnosis was introduced to better categorize individuals who experience severe challenges with eating, but do…

The name Health at Every Size®, also known as HAES®, seems to throw a lot of people off. Many people falsely believe this is an argument that all people in all bodies are healthy which is a hard concept to wrap one’s head around when…

Have you ever felt full after eating but not satisfied? If you’ve ever been able to acknowledge your fullness and still continue eating anyway you may have experienced this. Without satisfaction it is hard to turn off the drive to eat.  Think of fullness as…