Maybe, you pressure yourself to goto the gym or work out every day. And, if you don’t work out hard enough, there are loads of shame, guilt, and critical self-talk for not exercising. You really beat yourself up. Then, your inner critic tells you that you are ugly and fat, and the only way to be pretty is to lose weight. These negative beliefs are intense and persistent. So, you skip dinner and breakfast the next day. But, you find yourself so hungry, you binge, eating three meals worth in one sitting. The cycle to shame and guilt consumes you and your relationship with food is anxious and fearful. Stuck and alone, it feels like you are a hamster on a wheel, on a roller coaster of emotion. Work with one of our eating disorder therapy specialist in Southeastern Connecticut today.
Overall, our team of therapists in Southeastern Connecticut at Wisdom Within Counseling specialize with food issues, eating disorders, body image issues in counseling.
And, being gentle with yourself is hard, so hard feeling alone and stressed out. At Wisdom Within Counseling, in Southeastern Connecticut, we are a group of eating disorder therapy specialists and teach self-love skills. From restrictive to over eating, we help people of all ages and genders build a loving relationship with food and a healthy body image. Out culture perpetuates so much body shame and makes us feel like we are inadequate.
Now, eating disorders are behaviors that get family members worried too. Restrictive and overeating behaviors are in conjunction with intense, conflictual emotions.
So, people with eating disorders often have a severe and persistent disturbance in eating behaviors. As well, you may be having distressing thoughts and emotions. To add, they can be very serious conditions that can lead to death. Frequently, eating disorders impact physical, psychological and social components of life. For instance, eating disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, avoidant restrictive food intake disorder, other specified feeding and eating disorder, pica and rumination disorder. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we specialize with eating disorder treatment in a private setting. Using art, yoga, music, and walk and talk therapies in nature, we help teenagers and adults with eating disorders rebuild confidence.
To begin, book a phone consult using the button below to work with an eating disorder therapy specialist in Southeastern Connecticut today.
Secondly, eating disorders can be hidden well. For children, teenagers and adults alike, a relationship with food is overcome with anxiety and fear. Now, eating disorders affect all ages and genders. Sometimes, people think eating disorders only impact females or women. But, many men experience eating disorders and need treatment too. As well, disordered eating behaviors most often begin in adolescence and young adulthood. Sometimes, eating disorder treatment is needed as a result of a stressful event or trauma. More visibly, in the media, young women portray anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. However, men doing sports and adult men also experience body image issues. The inner critic can occur at any age, season, and affect any gender or race.
If you have a preoccupation with food, counting calories, or want to look different that you do, contact us to day.
At Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut, our therapists specialize with eating disorder treatment. As well, eating disorders often are a mix of trauma healing and a healthy relationship with food. Frequently, people with eating disorders obsess over food, body weight, body shape, and deal with anxiety about eating. As well, there is anxiety about the impact and the fear of the negative consequences of eating certain foods. Sometimes, people with eating disorders restrict food and lose a large amount of weight. At Wisdom Within Counseling, work with a holistic eating disorder therapy specialist in Southeastern Connecticut today. We would love to hear what is going on for you on a phone consult.
In counseling specialized for eating disorder recovery, counseling help people reduce behaviors associated with eating disorders like restrictive eating or food avoidance.
Through counseling, our team of therapists help people with eating disorders learn to get comfortable around trying new and certain foods. As well, if you notice yourself or a loved one binge eating, purging by vomiting, or laxatives, reach out for eating disorder specialized counseling today. Over exercising, eating too little, or compulsive exercise are all signs of an eating disorder.
As eating disorder therapy specialists, our team helps children, teens, and adults of all ages and genders build a loving relationship with food and a healthy body image.
In eating disorder treatment, therapy helps identify compulsive exercise behaviors, which appear similar to an addiction.
Compulsive exercising can lead to bone loss, muscle loss, and nutritional deficiencies. In combination with anorexia and bulimia, there is an element of Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). To add, OCD can look like only eating a portion of a breakfast or only certain foods. As well, there is a fear that if the ritual is not complete, something negative will happen. For instance, with eating disorder therapy, people with eating disorders often feel this way about food. Through counseling specialized for eating disorder recovery, we help people feel confident and loving in their relationship to food.
What is OCD or obsessive-compulsive disorder within an eating disorder?
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a disorder in which people have recurring, unwanted thoughts. And, these ideas or sensations (obsessions) make them feel driven to do something repetitively (compulsions). So, the repetitive behaviors like exercising significantly interfere with daily fun and food interactions. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we can help you step into loving yourself. Sometimes, eating disorders and OCD go hand in hand.
Working with Southeastern Connecticut eating disorder therapy specialists, you can learn to nurture yourself.
Manytimes, children, teens, and adults without OCD have distressing thoughts or repetitive behaviors. However, these thoughts and behaviors are occasional and do not impact life. For people with OCD and eating disorder diagnoses, intense thoughts are persistent, and food behaviors are rigid. As well, skipping out on or not performing the behaviors leads to anger or distress. Even if people with anorexia know their obsessions are not realistic, they have difficultly gaining weight. Therefore, therapy helps people stop obsessive thoughts and stop the compulsive actions around food.
If you’re experiencing any of the problems above, or if you think you may have an eating disorder, get professional counseling and help. If you’re hiding your bulimia, compulsive exercising, or anorexia from loved ones, try to find a person you can trust to talk to about what’s going on.
What is PTSD and how does PTSD play into eating disorder therapy?
Now, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a disorder that occurs after a traumatic event such as a natural disaster, a serious accident, family conflict, a terrorist act, war/combat or rape. As well, trauma includes sexual assault, emotional abuse, physical abuse, and having parents with mental health issues.
As well, post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can be a trigger to how anorexia or bulimia begin.
Sometimes, children, teens, and adults alike will develop food issues or fears after developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). For instance, if a toddler looses a parent in a car accident, they may develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and only eat three food from then on due to the trauma. Food refusal is triggered. As well, an adult who goes through a sexual assault may develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and therefore, bulimia and anorexia behaviors follow.
To begin, book a phone consult to work with an eating disorder therapy specialist who also can help with trauma.
Overall, post-traumatic stress disorder can be an influence into eating disorder treatment. At Wisdom Within Counseling, in Southeastern Connecticut, we specialize in post-traumatic stress disorder when it coincides with eating disorders. Furthermore, political, gender and sexual trauma can result from intense bullying in childhood years. Manytimes, when an eating disorder treatment specialist is needed, that may be the first time trauma is spoken about. Trauma leaves a lasting impact and therapy can a safe place to process it. As well, trauma healing and recovery can help heal an eating disorder. Lastly, bulimia is another eating disorder that can develop after a traumatic experience occurs.
What is bulimia nervosa?
Bulimia is an emotional disorder involving distortion of body image and an obsessive desire to lose weight all around. Manytimes, people with bulimia nervous go through extreme overeating, then depression, and self-induced vomiting, purging, or fasting. As well, the vomiting can lead to painful sores in the lower esophagus. Frequently, the American culture gives us messages to be skinnier or lose weight to fit in. However, we don’t really get education on how to love ourselves. When people experience bulimia, they will eat a large quantity of food in a short period of time. Then, there is a heavy load of guilt or shame. At Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut, we help people with bulimia develop a healthy body image and release guilt and shame.
To begin, book a phone consult to work with an eating disorder therapy specialist and counselor who is passionate about eating disorders.
As well, anorexia can lead to dehydration, constipation, dizzy spells, faintness, and abdominal pains from not eating enough. However, if you have anorexia, you will always think you are overweight or even obese. Frequently, people with anorexia are underweight, but think they are obese. As well, people with anorexia experience muscle weakness, poor circulation resulting in feeling constantly cold, dry, yellow colored skin, and too early morning waking.
Due to lack of food, and denied hunger pains, people with anorexia often have difficult sleeping through the night.
To add, many people with anorexia don’t want treatment, making it simular to an addiction. With anorexia nervosa, the desire to remain thin overrides concerns about true health. So, if you have a loved one you’re worried about or you think has an eating disorder, urge her or him to talk to a doctor or therapist. We are LGBTQIA+ affirming. At Wisdom Within Counseling, working with an eating disorder therapy specialist in Southeastern Connecticut can help you be nurturing to yourself. You can learn to overcome trauma, OCD, and develop positive coping skills and holistic self-love strategies. As well, you can pick from creative art, yoga, music, or outdoor therapies for building a self-care toolbox.
To begin, book a phone consult to work with a Southeastern Connecticut holistic eating disorder therapy specialist and build body and food confidence.
The main difference between diagnoses is that anorexia nervosa is a syndrome of self-starvation and significant weight loss. However, bulimia nervosa are typically at a normal weight with purging, but both have low self-esteem, feeling worthless or feeling like you’re not good enough. With eating disorders, losing weight can start to feel like a sense of achievement or a way to feel a sense of worth, but only creates negative self-talk. At Wisdom Within Counseling working with an eating disorder therapy specialist in Southeastern Connecticut is a positive step to loving and accepting yourself.
