Non-Coercive Eating Disorder Treatment: Why Collaboration Supports Recovery and Practical Tools for Outpatient Care
Eating disorder treatment continues to evolve as research highlights the importance of not only what interventions are used, but how they are delivered. Structure, nutritional restoration, and evidence-based modalities remain central to care. At the same time, a growing body of research shows that treatment outcomes can improve significantly when [...]
A More Honest Holiday: Support for Anyone Navigating an Eating Disorder
The holidays are often described as a time of celebration, connection, and joy. For many people living with an eating disorder, the season can feel far more complicated. Routines shift, expectations grow, and the usual support systems may not feel as accessible. This is not a guide about pushing through [...]
Rewiring the Brain: 8 Neural Strategies and Digital Nudges That Improve Outcomes in Eating Disorder Treatment
Digital media influences far more than thoughts or emotions. It activates neural circuits involved in attention, reward processing, motivation, and self-monitoring. For clients with eating disorders, who already experience vulnerabilities in these same systems, algorithmic content can intensify rigidity, compulsive checking, and appearance-focused rumination. The encouraging truth is this: the [...]
Digital Media and Eating Disorders: What Clinicians Need to Know
Digital media and eating disorders are more intertwined than ever. For many adolescents and young adults, platforms like TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat shape emotional regulation, body image, attention, identity development, and symptom maintenance. Algorithms, aesthetics, and online communities influence how clients think, feel, relate to their bodies, and engage [...]
Finding Freedom Together: The Transformative Power of Equine Interactions in Eating Disorder Recovery
What Is Therapy with Equine Interactions? Equine Therapy Psychotherapy with equine interactions uses guided interaction with horses to support emotional healing, self-awareness and connection. Our groups will cover themes commonly found in process groups, CBT groups, etc. The incorporation of horses is designed to enhance these topics through the relational [...]
Halloween in College: Tips for Body Image, Safety and Enjoying the Night
Halloween on campus is a big deal. Parties, events and costume contests fill the calendar, and for many students, it’s one of the most exciting nights of the year. But for others, choosing or wearing a costume can bring up stress, self-consciousness or anxiety about body image. If you’ve ever [...]
The Silent Kind of Struggle: When Suicidal Thoughts Don’t Look Like You Expect
Mental Health in Plain Sight: Stories of Struggle and Recovery, Brought to Light Mental Health in Plain Sight is a collection of first-person blogs written in the voice of Rea. Rea isn’t just one person—they reflect many voices: our alumni, our community and countless others who have walked through the [...]
GLP-1s and the Power of AND: Holding Complexity in an Anti-Diet, Recovery-Oriented Space
If you're part of the anti-diet, eating disorder recovery or weight-inclusive care community, chances are you've felt the tension around GLP-1 medications like Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro. On one hand, these medications are being marketed as life-changing solutions—celebrated in mainstream culture and increasingly prescribed (NY Times). On the other hand, [...]
GLP-1s and Eating Disorders: How the Team at Reasons Supports You with Compassion and Care
As medications like Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound rise in popularity, they’re showing up more often in eating disorder recovery spaces—and raising important questions. What do they mean for healing, hunger and identity? GLP-1s are prescribed for a variety of medical concerns, including type 2 diabetes, PCOS and insulin resistance. [...]
Let’s Talk About “Psych Patients”: Why the Language We Use Matters
We need to talk about a phrase that still circulates in conversations across treatment teams, healthcare systems and even within the eating disorder field: “psych patients.” We still hear this term used in ways that feel dismissive, stigmatizing, and loaded with judgment—as if there’s an “us” and a “them,” with [...]
