Clients want to improve: This is one of several central treatment assumptions in DBT and not one that is widely accepted or believed in general
We know that eating disorders (EDs) are not choices, but is recovery a choice? I spend a lot of time thinking about this because
All eating disorders are characterized by an inability to properly feed oneself. Difficulties in eating, body image, and digestion are largely rooted in neurobiological and metabolic factors
Binge eating and purging can be present in both anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN). In both disorders, the individual may engage in objective
This post was originally written for FEAST on Dec 28th, 2020: Given very high rates of suicidal and self-injurious behaviours among adolescents with eating disorders,
Not sure if you are ready for this post, or if I am, but its been brewing….so here it is. Over the past twenty years
When you restrict your eating in any way, your body adapts by entering starvation mode. Starvation mode is an evolutionary and biologically driven physiological mechanism
Despite the leaps and bounds the field has made, in large part due to the life work of people like Marsha Linehan, I am still
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is guided by a number of core assumptions about the nature of human behavior and about the process of treatment. Over the
Let’s talk about the self-critic that sits on your shoulder or lives in your head or floats about during the day. You know, the