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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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20 Mar

Somatic therapy: the rise of psychotherapy for the body

Somatic therapy: the rise of psychotherapy for the body
Once you feel like you might be losing your mind, it may be time to get in contact with your body 27-year-old Ellie* has been suffering along with her mental health for around six years. A store manager from Bracknell, she tells Dazed she fell right into a bout of depression after a “traumatising flatmate experience” but she struggled to seek out effective coping mechanisms for her symptoms. “I attempted CBT [Cognitive Behavioural Therapy] on the NHS, however it didn’t help entirely.” This 12 months, five years after she first attempted to get help, she tried somatic therapy. “I got here across somatic therapy on TikTok and commenced with just the somatic exercises –...
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