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
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.
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!
How Neurodiversity and Eating Disorders Overlap (& How to get help in London, UK)
Since the pandemic began, an increasing number of my California eating disorder therapy therapy clients have demonstrated neurodiverse traits. If you live in or around London, UK, you likely have been watching social media, and when posts and videos come up about ADHD, OCD, or ASD traits, you may relate. It’s true that the stress and trauma of the pandemic has affected (and still affects) all of us. It’s also true that if you have an eating disorder, it’s likely that your behaviors have increased, and if you’re neurodivergent, your traits have become more noticeable. So let’s explore how neurodiversity and eating disorders overlap and how you can get help for it in London, England.
An Open Letter to People Struggling With Binge Eating this Thanksgiving
This week is hard. I get it.
It's Thanksgiving. 🦃
And it's so difficult to feel thankful with binge eating disorder in California, Colorado, Florida, NYC, Chicago, wherever, when . . .
👉 You're struggling to get out of bed in the morning.
👉 You're dreading seeing your family on Thanksgiving.
👉 You can't stop thinking about food and eating.
👉 You feel terrified that people will comment on your body.
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.
Where to Practice Mindfulness in New York City When You’re Struggling with Binge Eating Disorder this Fall
Binge eating is isolating. There is so much shame involved that it’s easy to hide your binge behaviors and move forward as though you’re like everyone else. In a place like New York City, the biggest city in the United States, it’s amazing how alone you can feel in the midst of nearly 9 million people. But you can. Especially when you have binge eating disorder. That’s why I want to suggest five calm places to practice mindfulness in NYC. I also include a mindful tip that you can do at each location.
How Does Binge Eating Disorder Differ from Bulimia Nervosa?
Fighting binge eating in San Diego is hard enough. Struggling with urges to get rid of the food afterward adds another challenge. When binge eating or bulimia is present, it’s more difficult to grab life by the horns and hang on for a wild, fun ride. As I’m siting in my office in San Diego, California, listening to the baby birds chirp in the nest outside my window, I’m thinking about how binge eating and bulimia really hijacks people’s lives. Whether you live in California, or anywhere else in the world, I hope that my message is coming directly to you—the message that both binge eating disorder and bulimia are complex brain disorders. They have similarities and differences. Despite how hard it is to have bulimia and binge eating disorder, people CAN recover from both of them. I promise.