How to Overcome the eating order Bulimia is a video in which Teal Swan explains how to heal from bulimia.  Bulimia is largely connected to the childhood experience of being Gaslit and gaslighting.  Bulimia is closely tied to your experience of love and intimate relationships. If as a child your boundaries were violated and your needs were ignored your reality was not validated you may have developed the coping mechanism to control the intake of energy and developed an unhealthy relationship with food, therefore causing Bulimia and Bulimic tendencies.