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When discussing binge eating, the conversation often veers towards the physical ramifications—weight gain, digestive issues, or the like. However, it’s crucial to shift the spotlight onto the emotional and psychological aspects of this eating disorder. While binge eating might manifest outwardly through excessive food consumption, it’s often the internal emotional turmoil that fuels this behavior in the first place. The Emotional Build-Up Before a Binge Before delving into the experience of binge eating itself, it’s…

Eating disorders have a wide variety of symptoms, causes, and difficulties. Bulimia is one of the most common forms of disordered eating. It involves periods of binge eating (excessive food consumption) followed by purging (typically vomiting or laxatives) that can lead to poor health, stress, anxiety, depression, and more. But therapy can help. Therapy with an experienced therapist or counselor can help patients with bulimia manage the symptoms and take better control over their eating…

Despite how things may feel after surviving a traumatic experience, everyone has the ability to live a meaningful and healthy life. No matter what you’ve gone through, healing is possible no matter the trauma of your past. That isn’t to say healing is a simple task, or that it will feel easy long way. The road to healing has a lot of potential distractions and that seem like shortcuts and often the only way forward…

Every day we experience more emotions than we can keep track of. Whether it is happiness, sadness, anger, disgust, fear, confusion, or anything in between, we are often expected to be ready to respond to a wide variety of emotions. At any given point these emotions can also catch us off guard due to something we’ve experienced in the past, or because of an uncomfortable situation we are currently in. These emotional “triggers” are often…