DR MARIANNE MILLER
CARING EATING DISORDER TREATMENT IN SAN DIEGO AND THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA, TEXAS, AND WASHINGTON D.C. FOR ADULTS & TEENS
Binge Eating and Emotional Intelligence: Enhancing Emotional Awareness in Recovery
It’s common for people who struggle with binge eating to have low emotional awareness. Whether you’re in San Diego, California, London, UK, Florida, or Texas, it’s helpful to cultivate emotional awareness, which propels binge eating disorder recovery. The thing is, emotions are hard. They can go deep and feel really overwhelming. So it’s important to learn how to identify AND manage your emotions in order to reduce and eliminate the binge eating episodes. Here are some strategies to do it.
Perfectionism vs Productivity: Balancing Your Inner Voice and Positive Thinking
There are many opinions about perfectionism. Some people say that it’s something from which you can recover. Others say that it’s a trait to emulate. I believe that perfectionism is a characteristic that people are born with. If you have the perfectionistic trait while you are working hard in London, Chicago, Atlanta, and NYC, you likely see it in many family members, as well as your ancestors. There are pros and cons with perfectionism. The pros are that you get a lot of stuff done! And done well! The cons are that you can drive yourself into the ground and burn out. I should know. I have the perfectionism trait. In the past, I was living my life in San Diego, California, navigating how not to burn myself out, when I realized that perfectionism is something I can learn to MANAGE. It’s all about embracing the productivity and balancing your inner voice and positive thinking.
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How a Self-Paced Online Binge Eating Program Can Enhance Therapy for Eating Disorders, Anxiety, and Depression
You’re in therapy for anxiety, depression, family issues, or even an eating disorder, and you are needing something…more. Some other resource or support that will accelerate your binge eating recovery in San Diego, London, Atlanta, Chicago, and elsewhere. You’ve tried group therapy, and may even have found it helpful. You just need something that you can access any time—A system of binge eating recovery that really works. A support network that feels safe and secure. Something run by a trained eating disorder professional. Well, I’ve got you covered! I’ll share three reasons why a self-paced online binge eating program can enhance therapy for many things. It’s a perfect pairing!
Affirmations and Advice for Disordered Eating in Florida: How to avoid using food as a Coping Mechanism.
During the holidays and other stressful times of the year, it’s easy to turn toward food and unhelpful eating behaviors. Affirmations can really help. When I first started using affirmation years ago, I felt TOTALLY cheesy saying positive messages about myself out loud. Over time, the cheesiness faded and I began believing these statements. Affirmations became something on which I relied to steer me away from disordered eating. Whether I was living in California or visiting Florida or Colorado, I would keep saying affirmations until they became the reality.
Holiday Activities in Chicago to Help Your Binge Eating Recovery
I love Chicago. I’ve visited many times, for work, for play, and for SHOPPING (magnificent mile, anyone?). People were so friendly that I have to remind myself that I’m in a big city. Plus, being right there by Lake Michigan? The blend of nature and city excitement was a win for me! Any sort of distraction serves as self care when you’re struggling with binge eating disorder. If you live in Chicago, or you’re visiting there for the holiday season, I encourage you to do some awesome self-care and check out the following places. It’ll help you feel connected with others and with this magical time of year. It will benefit your binge eating recovery. I include takeaway tips to help you practice coping skills while you’re there.
Hitting an Emotional Wall? Three Strategies on How to Scale It
Having an especially hard time? Feeling more tired as the time in quarantine increases? Grappling with the uncertainty of the future? We all are struggling. Whether it’s the conflicting messages in the news or the uncertainty about the future of your job or school, life really sucks right now. Those with eating disorders in San Diego or elsewhere are especially vulnerable, as your symptoms around food and eating may be really flaring up. It’s like we are all hitting an emotional wall, and we feel trapped and don’t know what to do. Here are three strategies on how to scale it, taken from dialectical behavior therapy (DBT).
What to Do When You Feel Like Binge Eating
Feeling the urge to binge eat? Does it sneak up on you after work or school when you’re feeling bored, sad, or lonely? Or, does the urge hit you like a tsunami, and you feel flooded, like you’re out of control and you can’t stop your actions. Either way, binge eating can cause a lot of distress, disgust, and shame. It is so painful to live in sun-drenched San Diego and elsewhere while struggling with binge eating. While people are at the beach having fun, you feel trapped and filled with despair.
Learning how to manage the urges to binge eat can be your first step into freedom from this all-consuming behavior. In many ways, binge eating is an avoidance strategy. Eating disorder therapists in San Diego and around the world often consider binge eating as maladaptive coping mechanisms for distress. That means that when you binge eat, you’re trying to help yourself feel better, but it can end up making your life worse. Here are some tips to help you deal with the urges. The these strategies come from dialectical behavior therapy (DBT).
What to Do When You're Sick During Eating Disorder Recovery
I’ve recently recovered from a nasty bought of the stomach flu, and it got me thinking about how illness can affect eating disorder recovery. You’re on your recovery journey in San Diego and elsewhere, and things are progressing nicely, when WHAM!! You get the flu, get a cold, or even learn that you have a a serious condition that needs more intense medical care, like surgery. It can be incredibly overwhelming, and it can definitely affect how you eat and how you see your body.
I’ve outlined three tips on how to navigate the rough waters of illness while in eating disorder treatment in San Diego and around the world. These three tips expand beyond the typical steps, such as seeing your medical doctor and take over the counter remedies. The reason is because eating disorders are incredibly complex—physiologically, nutritionally, and psychologically. Tackling all three areas when you are feeling crappy can be a challenge—so these strategies are quick, simple, and can help you get back on the road to recovery ASAP.
How Can Yoga Help Eating Disorder Recovery?
Curious about how yoga can help you in your eating disorder recovery? Feeling scared to take the first step and start a yoga practice, but don’t know where to begin? It can be nerve-racking in San Diego to get out of your comfort zone and start something new—especially when it has to do with moving your body! I’ve interviewed Christin Conkle, LMFT, who is both an eating disorder therapist in San Diego, a yoga instructor, and a firm believer in how yoga can be a helpful part of eating disorder treatment. She explains how yoga can benefit people in eating disorder recovery, and she shares tips on how to begin a yoga practice.