A Journey Through Eating Disorders Support & Recovery

10 Recovery Tips and Strategies for Thriving during the Holiday Season

Are you finding an increase in anxiety due to the start of the holiday season? What comes to mind when you hear the word “holiday”? While this will certainly vary from person to person based on our background and culture, there are some common denominators, such as preparation, parties, family/friends, traditions, customs, resolutions and, of course, food. If you are…
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November 19, 2018
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Honored to be an Extraordinary Charity

The Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness is proud to once again be named one of the 2019 Extraordinary Charities of Palm Beach County. Extraordinary Charities is a Palm Beach based nonprofit organization devoted to raising awareness of small but deserving Palm Beach County charities. Its Directory for Charitable Giving is an informative resource for anyone who wants to support organizations…
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November 14, 2018
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Treating Patients with Eating Disorders: It Takes a Village

The treatment of eating disorders is one of healthcare’s most complex therapeutic pathways. Helping patients achieve recovery requires a sustained, collaborative, and multidisciplinary approach, tailored to the unique needs of the individual and family. And that’s just the start. Elisha Contner Wilkins, MS, LMFT, CEDS, executive director of Veritas Collaborative’s Richmond, Virginia, facility, shares her perspective on what it takes…
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October 22, 2018
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A Lesson on Emotional Vulnerability: A Recovery Story

Sometimes I succeeded at motherhood and sometimes I failed – yet, always, I gave it my best try. By the admission of my now grown children, I had a tendency to be a bit overbearing. I guess I swung to the other end of the pendulum from what I knew by experience. I am thankful that somehow, someway, both of…
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October 15, 2018
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The Art of Vulnerability

I don't have a Sam's club card, and sometimes, if I want to go, I'll show up to the warehouse, find a family and squeeze myself in by walking closely and confidently behind them, pretending to be a part. It always works and I end up inside, wandering around aisles of twenty-four packs of toilet paper and free samples. I…
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October 08, 2018
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Learning to Embrace Your Anxiety

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” – Wayne Dyer   For individuals struggling with an eating disorder, anxiety is an all too familiar feeling.  And, too often, this anxiety is reacted to as if it were a parasite- something dangerous, something unwanted and definitely something that we want to avoid. Many…
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October 01, 2018
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