There are moments in life that shift everything we thought mattered. A sudden illness, the death of a loved one, a brush with something greater than ourselves—these moments force a clarity we often ...

A new book for families highlights common misconceptions about eating disorders and offers practical guidance for supporting ...

Recovering from an eating disorder can be long and complex. Treatment typically focuses on reducing the unhelpful behaviors and thoughts that characterize these disorders. These include extreme ...

I can’t remember the day that I decided to start starving myself. I can’t remember if it was a particular day, specific event or a mounting of occurrences that spurred me into an eating disorder. Like ...

Food is a core part of holiday traditions for most families — especially mine. "Some people eat to live, but we live to eat," my grandfather would always say. Every year, I looked forward to the ...

Defining what recovery looks like after an eating disorder is tricky. Mallary Tenore Tarpley was in and out of residential and hospital treatment for several years before realizing she would never be ...

"We can’t turn back time, but we can educate those struggling with the same demons we once were." ...

Overreliance on body mass index (BMI) to measure recovery from eating disorders has sparked calls for better assessment methods. University of Queensland researchers reviewed 60 studies from five ...

When Mallary Tenore Tarpley was 11 years old, her mother died from breast cancer. Her father, who was reeling from his wife's death and at a loss to guide his daughter through puberty, gave Tarpley a ...

On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't talk about. Author Jennette McCurdy talks about her experience with eating disorder recovery. Every week, a ...

The last thing Chevese Turner needed was medication to help her lose weight. Twenty years into recovery from binge eating disorder and atypical anorexia, she was done trying to whittle her physique ...

Recovering from an eating disorder can be long and complex. But when recovery focuses on a clinical checklist of symptoms, such as reaching a healthy weight, it may ignore other important aspects of ...