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4 Aug

How somatic therapy helps individuals with eating disorders

How somatic therapy helps individuals with eating disorders
The dominant treatment model for eating disorders largely ignores the body – but what if we centred it? A small but growing variety of somatic therapists have a radical recent vision In the event you’re fearful about your individual or another person’s health, you may contact Beat, the UK’s eating disorder charity, on 0808 801 0677 or beateatingdisorders.org.uk. Or find US-based resources from the National Eating Disorders Association here. Ani Waggoner has battled anorexia for 28 years. She’s been to seven different treatment facilities, and cycled out and in of recovery for her entire adult life. It wasn’t until her last residential stay, on the Renfrew Centre in Florida, that she hit a breakthrough....
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11 Jul

How somatic therapy helps individuals with eating disorders

How somatic therapy helps individuals with eating disorders
The dominant treatment model for eating disorders largely ignores the body – but what if we centred it? A small but growing variety of somatic therapists have a radical recent vision In the event you’re apprehensive about your individual or another person’s health, you possibly can contact Beat, the UK’s eating disorder charity, on 0808 801 0677 or beateatingdisorders.org.uk   Ani Waggoner has battled anorexia for 28 years. She’s been to seven different treatment facilities, and cycled out and in of recovery for her entire adult life. It wasn’t until her last residential stay, on the Renfrew Centre in Florida, that she hit a breakthrough. “Quite a lot of trauma is ingrained in my body,...
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30 Mar

Fat Girl is the web platform aimed toward tackling

Fat Girl is the web platform aimed toward tackling
Meet Clementine Prendergast, the brains behind the hands-on platform using chatbots and workshops to combat body image issues and construct up young girls digital resilience At only 25, Londoner Clementine Prendergast is on the forefront of a neoteric body neutrality movement, crusading for self-acceptance, body confidence and positive self-esteem amidst a negative body image climate. Last 12 months, Prendergast arrange her Fat Girl initiative – a web based platform which explores body politics with the aim of helping girls who struggle with eating disorders and body image issues. “Having struggled with an eating disorder for the perfect a part of a decade, I wanted to search out a solution to leverage learnings from my negative...
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26 Dec

The best way to support those with eating disorders

The best way to support those with eating disorders
Maha Khan, founding father of Islam and Eating Disorders blog, shares her advice The primary time I became aware of my appearance was once I went back to Pakistan for the summer after my GCSEs, where I used to be met with numerous comments about my weight gain. It shook my confidence because in my early teens I assumed a little bit of weight gain would make me look higher. I used to be a really thin child. Now on the age of 16, when I assumed I looked healthy, I used to be being advised to drop a few pounds. This combined with the wonder ideals perpetuated by mainstream media led me...
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