A Journey Through Eating Disorders Support & Recovery

As children, our minds are like sponges, soaking up all we see and hear around us. No one enters this world hating their body. We don’t start life with food rules and restrictions. We simply arrive as we are. And with our collective efforts, it is possible that not one more child will learn that they need to look a…

#NotOneMore Company Without Access to Comprehensive Mental Health Support Just two years ago, the professional landscape looked drastically different. Most of us worked alongside our coworkers, in person, without fear of catching anything worse than the flu. At that time stress, burnout, uncertainty, and compassion fatigue didn’t have nearly as prominent a place in our vocabulary, though many of us…

What does “not one more” mean to you? As someone who spent many years fighting Anorexia Nervosa, my initial answer is to say “not one more eating disorder.” Just imagine a world where there are no more eating disorders. That sounds pretty great, but how? Approximately 28.8 million Americans will have an eating disorder in their lifetime, and 70% of…

by: Laurie Yurchuck, Administrative + Technology Coordinator --- I used to think that healing was a race. I thought that one day I would cross a finish line and I would be done. Fully healed. Fully recovered. All better. I used to think that healing was black and white; all or nothing. I would say that I am your typical…

Supporting clients on their journey through recovery to becoming fully recovered is far from easy. It is filled with a mixture of emotions, certainly too many to write on one blog post. Not One More is such a powerful topic and, while very hard to dwindle down to a word count, is the reason I come to work every day.…

Unheard and Unseen: Enduring and Overcoming Medical Trauma as a Fat Woman of Color Content Warning: Loss of life, cancer, medical trauma --- I am scrolling through my phone, reading post after post, not completely registering any of the words or photos. I stop on a particularly interesting post – an article detailing the loss of a black woman’s life…

Eating disorders are mental illnesses that can affect anyone, regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, ability, size, or other social categories. Every day at Veritas Collaborative, we see the toll that these widespread mental health conditions take on our patients and their families. The impact is profound. And at the same time, we see that treatment works. People get…

Each year, the National Alliance for Eating Disorders hosts Not One More Weekend to raise awareness of eating disorders, to offer support, and to raise funds for free, virtual, eating disorders support groups. As an ally of The Alliance and of Not One More Weekend, Reasons Eating Disorder Center is committed to being a part of this important conversation. Recently,…

As someone who grew up in the ballet community and became a behavioral health professional and dance educator, I know the damage this insidious disease inflicts on entire communities. I firmly believe Not One More person should be made to believe their value is in shrinking or lessening their emotions, personality, experience, or body. My hope is that one day…

“Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.” I think of this quote often since I officially stepped into the professional world of eating disorders five months ago, a field my dietetics curriculum has covered little of. I am continuously amazed by the power of healing through sharing stories and building…