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Mindful Movement and Recovery for Compulsive Over-Exercise

Contributor: Heather MacLaren, LPC, R-DMT, GLCMA, ICDVP is a Dance/Movement Therapist and Trauma Specialist at Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center. For many individuals who may struggle with an eating disorder, including [...]
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Do Fitness Trackers Impact Eating Disorder Recovery?

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Recently, fitness tracking watches have become part of the debate as to whether technology is helping or hurting people’s relationships with themselves, their bodies, and food. These devices track and [...]
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Understanding Different Forms of Yoga and Which to Incorporate in My Treatment

The practice of yoga, which is based in ancient Eastern teachings, has grown in popularity over the past few decades within Westernized societies. Yoga incorporates the movement of physical postures, [...]
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Benefits of Exercise for Co-Occurring Eating Disorders and Schizophrenia

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Eating disorders are complex psychiatric illnesses that involve a combination of biological, psychosocial and environmental factors. Because the underlying factors of eating disorders are similar to those that influence other [...]
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Eating Disorders in Young Athletes

image credit: White Water Magazine Eating disorders are characterized by a disturbance in eating or eating related behaviors that clinically impairs physical health and/or psychosocial functioning. The categories of eating [...]
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Practicing Yoga Therapy in Recovery: Renegotiating Exercise in the New Year

Practicing yoga can elicit a variety of emotions for someone struggling with an eating disorder. There might be a desire to engage in yoga as a form of compensatory exercise. [...]
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Dangers of Using Exercise as a Coping Tool in Eating Disorder Recovery

Contributor: Courtney Howard, B.A., Director of Operations & Business Development at Eating Disorder Hope and Addiction Hope. Many people tout the benefits of engaging in exercise to relieve anxiety. This [...]
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Athletes and Binge Eating Disorder

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Contributor: Crystal Karges, MS, RDN, IBCLC, Director of Content and Social Media at Eating Disorder Hope Athletes who compete at the collegiate, professional, and Olympic levels are able to attain [...]
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Potential Dangers with Fitbits: When Diet Trends Go Too Far

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Contributor: Crystal Karges, MS, RDN, IBCLC, Director of Content and Social Media at Eating Disorder Hope/Addiction Hope Touted in the name of health, Fitbits and fitness trackers have become the [...]
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