Is it allowed to set health goals while trying to recover from an eating disorder, disordered eating and/or chronic dieting? How do you know if your goal setting is coming from a place of self-care and self-acceptance? How do you know it isn’t the old eating disorder voice, telling you to shrink yourself in the name of health? It truly is a fine line to balance out health and well-being and to separate goal setting from rigid rules, developing compulsive behaviours or damaging our ment[...]
[Disclaimer: This article is for informational and educational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice, mental health care or eating disorder treatment.] I love science. It is the one thing I believe in and research is a passion of mine. Some would even call it a compulsion. I like to question everything people tell me and look for scientific facts online to back up their theory. However, I know that scientific research can be quite dry and boring to some people. In this[...]
Spoiler alert: I don’t ever talk about or promote dieting, weight loss and body transformations. Why? Because there is an incredible amount of people out there doing this. Also, we seem to know exactly what we have to do in order to achieve that “perfect body”. Nevertheless, the struggle with disordered eating and a crappy body image is bigger than it has ever been before. Hence, this article is about 5 ways to track your progress in terms of self-acceptance as well as in terms of improvin[...]
[Disclaimer: This article is for informational and educational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice, mental health care or eating disorder treatment.] The RU Okay Day September 14 was the official RU okay day in 2017. RU okay is a suicide prevention charity that raises awareness about anxiety and depression. They have such an amazing mission that resonates with so many of us. Seeing instagram posts with this hash tag all over my feed gave me the extra push towards opening up[...]
Health is something we all strive for. Over the past few decades, the media has done a very good job at putting out a specific image of what "health" is supposed to look like. Nowadays, it is usually a slender, white, young female eating a salad, while laughing and having the best time ever. I am sure you have the exact picture I am talking about in mind right now. Seriously, who loves salads this much that they have the biggest smile on their faces while eating them? The reality of "health" i[...]