DR MARIANNE MILLER

CARING EATING DISORDER TREATMENT IN SAN DIEGO AND THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA, TEXAS, AND WASHINGTON D.C. FOR ADULTS & TEENS

How to Find the Right Binge Eating Therapist for Your Needs: 5 Ways to Get Help for Binge Eating

How to Find the Right Binge Eating Therapist for Your Needs: 5 Ways to Get Help for Binge Eating

Finding a decent therapist is hard. Finding the right binge eating therapist in California or Texas is even more difficult. It’s partly because many eating disorder therapists don’t have much experience and training in binge eating disorder. Also, many individuals struggling with binge eating are in larger bodies, and they face judgment, stereotyping, oppression, and accessibility issues on a daily basis. Most therapists are unaware of such issues. If you grapple with binge eating, you’ve likely tried a lot of coaches, physicians, dietitians, and perhaps even eating disorder therapists who just haven’t clicked. You’ve felt misunderstood, invalidated, minimized, and ridiculed. Finding an experienced, compassionate binge eating therapist who knows the complexities of binge eating disorder is key. Here are five ways on how to do it.

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Binge Eating and Emotional Intelligence: Enhancing Emotional Awareness in Recovery
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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.

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Building Resilience: Strategies for Overcoming Setbacks in Binge Eating Recovery
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Building Resilience: Strategies for Overcoming Setbacks in Binge Eating Recovery

Setbacks suck. Whether you’re in San Diego, California, NYC, or London, UK, it is so difficult to deal with setbacks in binge eating recovery. Picture this: You’re cruising along, and you haven’t had a binge eating episode in weeks. All of a sudden . . . WHAM . . . you have a stressful few days, and you forget to eat breakfast and even lunch, and you end up binge eating that night. Shame crashes like a wave over you. You feel physically uncomfortable. A thought keeps crossing your mind: “I’m a failure.” Guess what? The recovery journey isn’t over. You can build resilience and spring back from setbacks in binge eating recovery. Here are three tips on how to do it.

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Navigating Triggers and Emotional Eating: Strategies for Overcoming Binge Eating Patterns
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Navigating Triggers and Emotional Eating: Strategies for Overcoming Binge Eating Patterns

Struggling with binge eating patterns? It’s likely that you have common triggers that launch the binge eating cycle. Whether you are in San Diego, NYC, or London, it’s important to recognize the susceptibilities that can make you vulnerable to falling down the binge eating rabbit hole. It’s vital to identify strategies for overcoming binge eating patterns and navigating emotional eating. Read these top three tips to help you recover from binge eating.

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Binge Eating Recovery: Celebrating Non-Scale Victories
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Binge Eating Recovery: Celebrating Non-Scale Victories

Binge eating recovery is cause for celebration in so many ways. Whether you live in New York, Florida, California, or Colorado, it’s important to highlight small and big victories. What this means is that you focus on recovery achievements that have nothing to do with the scale. Here are 5 types of non-scale victories that you can celebrate as you recover from binge eating in NYC, San Diego, and London UK.

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Navigating Social Situations: Overcoming Binge Eating Challenges

Navigating Social Situations: Overcoming Binge Eating Challenges

Whether you live in San Diego, London, NYC, or elsewhere, navigating social situations when you are in recovery from binge eating takes a delicate touch. People may not realize that even choosing a restaurant or deciding what takeout to eat as a group or cooking altogether can be fraught with anxiety. It’s important to cope ahead in order to overcome binge eating challenges when you’re with friends, family, or even in work settings.

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Understanding Binge Eating: Causes, Solutions, and Coping Strategies
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Understanding Binge Eating: Causes, Solutions, and Coping Strategies

A lot of my coaching and therapy clients come to me feeling confused about binge eating and are unsure as to why it developed and unclear about how to stop. Whether you’re struggling with binge eating in San Diego, NYC, London, or Atlanta, it can feel really overwhelming. You may even be experiencing a lot of shame. Here’s a few causes, solutions, and coping strategies to help you reduce and eliminate binge eating episodes so you can gain a life worth living!

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How to Navigate Food Delivery Services When You Struggle With Binge & Stress Eating

How to Navigate Food Delivery Services When You Struggle With Binge & Stress Eating

One HUGE change in the past few years in how people binge eat is the use of food delivery service apps like DoorDash, GrubHub, Postmates, and UberEats. You feel the urge to binge, you whip out your phone, and 30 minutes later you can get pretty much any type of food on which to binge. Gone are the 11p runs to the convenience store. Now there are 7 ways you can eat Sag Paneer and Korean BBQ. You can literally have Taco Tuesday on the other 6 days of the week, without having to cook, and without leaving the house. This type of access was unheard of prior to the pandemic. Yes, it existed, and it wasn’t widely used (except perhaps pizza, and in big cities like NYC & Chicago). Now you can get delivery nearly anywhere. Here are 5 quick tips to navigate food services when disordered eating is part of your life.

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