Expert Training in Disordered Eating
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What if it was never about your weight? What if instead it was about our culture teaching us we’d be more lovable, worthy, and desirable if only we were thin? ”
Sick of yo-yo dieting? Losing and gaining the same 15 pounds over and over? Do you find yourself sticking to a rigid diet, always hungry, but not allowing yourself to eat? Do you feel the need to burn off every calorie you consume? Continue your daily runs even in harsh weather conditions or when injured? Do you make yourself vomit, use laxatives, or rely on diet pills to control your weight? Do you find yourself secretly eating at night when everyone else is asleep? Or eating when you’re not really hungry, but rather feeling sad or tired? Do you hide your body in baggy clothes or make excuses to skip social events where you know food will be served? Do you feel disgusted at yourself when you look in the mirror? Do you lose “control” around fast food or sweets? Do you feel the need to alter a picture before posting it on social media? Do thoughts of calories and pounds consume you? Are you caught in the currents of diet culture?
Approximately 20% of individuals will struggle with disordered eating in their lifetime. This includes restricting food intake, binge eating, making yourself vomit or using other compensatory behaviors like over exercising, and avoiding entire food groups like carbs because you see them as “bad.” If food, your weight, your shape, or your body is a source of concern, you are not alone.
Dr. Pivarunas trained underneath some of the world's experts in the treatment of eating and weight disorders. She uses the latest scientific developments to approach disordered eating and weight concerns, which include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Interpersonal Psychotherapy, and Mindfulness-based approaches. She also draws from cultural and feminist theories and utilizes Health at Every Size and Intuitive Eating to foster body acceptance, balance, and peace. Why settle for a life of struggling when you can find healing, freedom, wholeness, and health?
“The only way to solve the weight problem is to stop making weight a problem—to stop judging ourselves and others by our size. Weight is not an effective measure of attractiveness, moral character, or health. The real enemy is weight stigma, for it is the stigmatization and fear of fat that causes the damage and deflects attention from true threats to our health and well-being.”
a few intuitive eating & health at
every size accounts we love:
Christy Harrison | Sonya Renee Taylor | Lindo Bacon | Alishia McCullough | Julie Duffy Dillon | Nicole Cruz | Laura Thomas | Maria Paredes | Jessica Wilson | Evelyn Tribole | Jennifer Rollin | Anna Sweeney | Joshua Wolrich | Side by Side Nutrition
SOME OF Our favorite ACTIVISTS & ADVOCATES:
Meg Boggs | Aarti Olivia Dubey | Louise Green | Colleen Werner | Allison Kimmey | Stephanie Yeboah | Byron Gordon | Callie Thorpe | Megan Jayne Crabbe | Michelle Elman | Harnaam Kaur | Jessamyn Stanley | Alex Dacy | Ashlee Bennett
