In this episode, I respond to a parent whose child has an eating disorder. This parent is worried because it seems like their child is never happy anymore. All the parent is seeing is anger and sadness. I share information about how happiness is just one of six core emotions. And when a person hasContinue reading "18. She’s never happy anymore"

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In this episode, I respond to a parent whose child has an eating disorder. This parent feels terrible because they lose their temper frequently. Of course the parent knows that they *shouldn't* yell, but they feel powerless to stop themselves in the moment. This is not uncommon, and luckily we can change our behavior andContinue reading "17. I lose my temper"

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In this episode, I respond to a parent whose child has left and returned to an eating disorder treatment center twice and wonders what she can do to avoid an endless cycle. She is frustrated and worried about her child, and wants to know who can help. I'll talk about the thing that almost nobodyContinue reading "16. Who can help?"

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In this episode, I respond to a parent who is worried about her 20-year-old son who has an eating disorder and won't talk about food and eating. He either yells or withdraws when she tries to engage him in conversations. I talk about why this might be happening and provide her with a counter-intuitive methodContinue reading "15. He won’t talk about food with me"

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In this episode, I respond to a mom who is worried about her daughter's lack of motivation for eating disorder recovery. I review the most important things, which are to feed her regularly and keep her in therapy. And then I also talk about what mom can do to help make meals less unpleasant andContinue reading "14. Not motivated to recover"

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In this episode, I respond to a mom who is worried about her daughter's food fear during eating disorder recovery. The mom says her daughter is terribly afraid of food and is continually removing foods from her list of safe foods. I'll talk through what fear feels like so that you can understand where thisContinue reading "13. My daughter is afraid of food"

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In this episode, I respond to a dad who is worried about his son's weight gain. He says that his son was "chubby" as a kid but then got really into working out and adopted a rigid keto diet. But during quarantine, he stopped working out and started eating carbs again. He gained weight. IContinue reading "12. My son is gaining weight"

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In this episode, I respond to a parent whose daughter is constantly engaging in body-bashing. Mom is doing the best she can to respond appropriately, but the bad body thoughts seem to be getting worse. I provide a scientifically proven response to circular and escalating thoughts like this. This method feels unnatural for most parents,Continue reading "11. How to respond to body bashing"

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In this episode, I respond to a parent whose daughter is bingeing and purging and won't talk to her. Her daughter is a "good kid" who seems to have dropped into a completely foreign place, and her family doesn't know what to do to help. I begin by breaking down where the eating disorder mightContinue reading "10. Bingeing & purging & won’t talk to me"

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In this episode, I respond to a parent who is wondering how long recovery takes and what it looks like. This is a really important question, so I begin by laying out the "iceberg" theory of mental health in which the visible part of the iceberg is the eating disorder, which is one part ofContinue reading "9. What is eating disorder recovery?"

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