DR MARIANNE MILLER
CARING EATING DISORDER TREATMENT IN SAN DIEGO AND THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA, TEXAS, AND WASHINGTON D.C. FOR ADULTS & TEENS
Addressing Triggers and Cravings During a Binge Eating Program: 5 Strategies that Help With Binge Eating
Whether you live in London, Manchester, or Birmingham in the UK, or whether you live in San Diego, Houston, or Washington DC in the US, or anywhere in between, it can be so helpful to join a binge eating program that helps you reduce and eliminate binge eating episodes. Such binge eating programs also teach you to manage obsessive thoughts: Imagine what it would be like to go from thinking about food, eating, and body image 90% of the time to 10% of the time. It’s amazing! I know. I’ve lived it. I’ve also created an online, self-paced binge eating program to help you get to that place, too. Regardless of what binge eating program you join, it’s really about finding freedom with food and with your body. Throughout such binge eating programs, you still may struggle with triggers and cravings. Don’t worry—I’m here to help! Here are five strategies on what to do when such triggers and cravings come up.
Thriving in Binge Eating Recovery: Strategies for Sustaining Long-Term Success in London (& in the UK)
It’s so important to build in relapse prevention when you’re aiming for long-term success in binge eating recovery, especially when you live in such a big, vibrant city such as London, England. Relapse prevention means that you are able to identify early red flags of relapse, and then implement coping skills to correct your recovery course. When you live in a high-pressure environment like London, UK, it’s important to have a strategy so that the first little red flag you see, you can turn away from it.
How Spirituality (however you define it) Can Help Binge Eating Disorder Recovery
Since I was a little girl, spirituality has always been a big part of my life. It has morphed and evolved over the years. I’ve grown and changed and learned how some of my former spiritual beliefs were oppressive and repressive to living my authentic self. Now that I’ve learned how to open up myself to a broader view of spirituality and let go of the elitism and limitations of some spiritual views, I’ve moved into a larger world of spiritual change and growth, which has both empowered and grounded me. Living in San Diego, California helped my eating disorder recovery because not only did I find an eating disorder therapist who really knew her stuff, I also felt connected spiritually to the ocean and to nature around me. Walking on the beach in California soothes my soul. Cultivating my spiritual self in San Diego accelerated my eating disorder recovery. Wherever you live, whether it be in Denver, Chicago, Atlanta, NYC, or London, you can recover from binge eating disorder completely by tapping into spirituality, however you define it.
A Mini-Guide to Practicing Self-Love in Binge Eating Treatment and Recovery
My word of the year is love. Yes, yes I got this idea from Lizzo’s album Special and from Sonya Renee Taylor’s book, The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love. After listening to the album hundreds of times and reading the book over and over again as I treated eating disorders in San Diego and coached recovering from binge eating in cities like London, Chicago, Atlanta, and New York, I figured it out. I linked the power of self-love to the binge eating recovery process. In order to help yourself recover from binge eating, You have to learn to love yourself. It may sound hard. It may even feel impossible. I’m here to give you hope that self-love is not only possible, it’s inevitable when you get the right binge eating help.
An Open Letter to High Achievers Struggling with Body Image and Binge Eating
Hey there high achievers, high performers, and perfectionists in California, New York, etc., who struggle with body image and binge eating. I’m talking directly to you. I, too, am a perfectionist, I’m a high achiever and high performer. I’ve also felt stuck in the binge eating cycle and wrestled with negative body image. It sucks to be amazing at every area of your life except for food, eating, and body image. You are so effective at what you do that it’s difficult not to be able to figure this darn thing out. That’s why I’m writing this letter to you. I want to give you a path outta here. I want to give you hope.
A Deep Dive into Dissociation and Binge Eating with Dr. Danielle Hiestand
I’m so excited for you to hear from San Diego trauma and eating disorder specialist, Dr. Danielle Hiestand, LMFT, CEDS on the topic of dissociation and binge eating. Danielle was actually a former doctoral student of mine from long ago, and she did amazing research on eating disorders. She has since become one of the top eating disorder therapists in San Diego, known especially for how she integrates eating disorder treatment and trauma therapy. Plus, she’s going to be a guest speaker for my Summer 2022 Freedom From Binge Eating class! Winning!
Overcoming Binge Eating with Eating Disorder Dietitian Kathleen Meehan, MS, RD
You’ve probably noticed that I’m talking about binge eating a lot lately. One reason is because I see so many people suffering from binge eating in my San Diego practice. Binge eating disorder (BED) is when you have uncontrollable urges to eat typically large amounts of food in a short amount of time. Often disassociation and a sense of detachment occurs during the binge. Afterword, you feel overwhelmed with shame and self-loathing. You promise yourself you’ll never do it again, and then you do. It’s such a difficult way to live. Binge eating has nothing to do with willpower, and it isn’t a moral issue. Binge eating disorder is a brain disorder, and you can get treatment for it so you can live a free and fulfilling life.
How My Freedom from Binge Eating Class Can Help You Redefine Your Relationship with Food and with Your Body
You struggle with binge eating or emotional eating in San Diego or elsewhere. You eat “right” during the day, and then as soon as you get home (or as soon as you put the kids to bed), you head to the refrigerator and the pantry to begin eating. At first you feel relief—like you’ve been holding your breath all day and can finally let it out and gulp in fresh, clean air. Then the numbness or detachment settles over you. It is a welcome respite from the pent-up stress, frustration, and anger. You don’t end the binge until you feel really, really uncomfortable—then the shame seeps in. You can’t believe you did it again. You had promised yourself that you would never binge again—that you would follow your diet or meal plan perfectly and give up binging once and for all. Yet here you are, feeling nauseous, extremely uncomfortable, and hopeless.
Battling Binge Eating? Amy Ornelas, RD on How Eating Disorder Dietitians Can Help
Grappling with binge eating in San Diego is so freaking hard. It consumes your waking thoughts and hijacks your brain. All you want to do is enjoy your life and see the amazing sights in San Diego and elsewhere, but you just can’t seem to turn off the obsessive thoughts, the constant urges, and the shame—and there can be so much shame. I have worked many years with San Diego eating disorder dietitian Amy Ornelas, RD. She is SO GIFTED at what she does—it’s like magic how she helps people recover from binge eating. Check out her approach to binge eating in this interview!