Eating Disorder Recovery
For adults in NY and NJ
It’s morning. You wake up and don’t even realize you’re checking to see if your stomach is flat.
You instinctively glance in the mirror and look to see how your clothes fit. You haven’t fully woken up yet and you’re worried about what you’ll eat and how much and when for breakfast.
After you finally get yourself to eat something, you begin to think about how what you just ate will affect your decision for lunch. And then you remember have plans to go out for dinner so that just makes things complicated. You then try thinking about when you can squeeze run in or at least some yoga even though there isn’t extra time.
This is your mind. Every freaking day.
It’s exhausting and tiring and you are sick of it. You want out of this obsessive loop. You long for the day when you wake up and think about anything, absolutely anything, besides food, weight, and exercise. You feel jealous and resentful of the people around you who seem to do it all with such ease.
You worry that this is just your life sentence.
That even if things get better, you’ll never fully stop thinking about food or exercise. That to a certain extent this toxic relationship with food will always be there. You can’t remember the last time you felt confident about yourself, your body, your work. Have you ever looked in the mirror and liked what you saw?
You can’t stop thinking about food & exercise.
Or maybe you worry about all of these things and know that you can’t act on your anxieties. You’re eating all your meals (even the foods that feel scary to eat) and exercising less. But this only makes your anxiety worse.
In the past, when you’ve felt anxious, you used exercise or food to ease your anxiety. But now your body image still sucks. You fantasize about restricting again. But you know that won’t be helpful. So here you are, stuck in the loop, sky high tension and worry.
It doesn’t have to be this way forever.
You may be skeptical at this point.
Create space to heal.
Together, we will explore your restriction, bingeing, purging, or exercise in a way that helps you understand why they’re there to begin with. By uncovering their function, we can create space for you to heal in the places that you are hurting the most. The places that your relationship with food have been clouding all this time.
Food can be just food.
You can learn to accept your body. Life can and will be so much more. Imagine all the brain space and energy you will free up. Imagine all the dreams you can chase.
Imagine being that person who doesn’t care about what you order at the restaurant.
The one who laughs at a get together and means it. The carefree one. That can, and will be you.
Individualized Support
In addition to our work together, sometimes it’s useful to match you up with a dietitian who specializes in disordered eating to help figure out the nitty gritty details of your food intake. Sometimes it’s helpful to point you in the direction of a psychiatrist or psychiatric nurse practitioner who can explore medication options, if that is something you’re open to.
Other times, we follow up with a doctor who is versed in eating disorders and who can keep an eye out for your physical health. Maybe a group would be useful. We tailor it to exactly what you need.