Bingeing

The role of trauma in eating disorders

October 31, 2015 by Andrew Walen, LCSW-C, LICSW, CEDS

Trauma: a deeply distressing or disturbing experience I’ve heard so many stories of trauma from clients over the years. Sexual abuse. Physical abuse. Emotional abuse. Neglect. Manipulation. Witnessing others abused, tortured, and killed. Each person responds differently using the fight, flight or freeze reaction. Each one of these reactions can lead to a form of […]

Sitting with it

October 2, 2015 by Andrew Walen, LCSW-C, LICSW, CEDS

I’m on a plane right now heading to the National Eating Disorders Association conference in San Diego. I’m in the middle seat. It’s been a turbulent ride. Traffic was so bad getting to the airport I had no time to stop to eat, so I’m starving. Peanuts and OJ just don’t cut it. It’s a […]

Perspective reminder

August 9, 2015 by Andrew Walen, LCSW-C, LICSW, CEDS

Eating disorders are not about food. Food behaviors from restricting to bingeing and purging are ways we tell the world our story of pain, regret, loneliness, shame, and loss. But too often that story is overblown in our minds. We lose perspective on what’s important and what we have. Today I was reminded what is […]

Inner Critical Voice

April 22, 2014 by Andrew Walen, LCSW-C, LICSW, CEDS

You shudder as an old friend you haven’t seen in a while looks at you and says, “You look so healthy!” You know that you should interpret this as a positive thing, as something that means you are making progress with your eating disorder. However, all you can think of is how they did not […]

The role of trauma in eating disorders

Sitting with it

Perspective reminder

Inner Critical Voice

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