DR MARIANNE MILLER
CARING EATING DISORDER TREATMENT IN SAN DIEGO AND THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA, TEXAS, AND WASHINGTON D.C. FOR ADULTS & TEENS
Spirituality and Eating Disorders with California Therapist Sarah Brown, LMFT
Hi everyone! I’m happy to introduce California eating disorder therapist Sarah Brown, LMFT. Not only is Sarah very experienced in working with eating disorders and advocates health at every size (HAES), she is able to integrate spirituality into California eating disorder treatment. This topic is near and dear to my heart—especial spiritual trauma and how it can affect eating disorder recovery. I’m so thankful that Sarah is doing the work that she does and so excited for you to get to know her!
Finding a New Norm and Narrative
Recovering from an eating disorder requires grit and determination. Not only do you have to rescript how you think about food and your body, you also have to change your relationships with others and how you interact with the culture around you. In my free masterclass, I will delineate my three-part system of eating disorder that’s 25 years in the making and coming to you LIVE from San Diego, California! The third part of this system involves rescripting your relationships with food, with eating, with your body, and with your loved ones. It’s all about creating a new narrative for yourself, and I’m going to give you a sneak peak on how to do it.
Lies Your Eating Disorder Tells You
Having an eating disorder in San Diego, California, or elsewhere often means that your brain is very noisy. You may be obsessing about what you just eat or what you will eat, thinking about all the flaws in your appearance, shaming yourself, and counting calories. Or, you could be longing for it all to stop. You may be suffering from binge eating or bulimia. Bottom line, the eating disorder part of your brain lies to you. So many of these lies stem from diet culture. I’ve outlined four common lies your eating disorder tells you, especially with bulimia and binge eating disorder, and I’ve pinpointed the truths to counter them.
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.
Treating ARFID with San Diego Eating Disorder Dietitian Maddie McClean, RD
Grappling with ARFID (avoidant restrictive food intake disorder) is really hard. Whether you struggle with ARFID yourself, or whether it’s one of your kiddos, there is SO much anxiety. You feel frustrated because food choices are limited. You may fear choking or vomiting. You struggle with how food looks or dislike how it feels in your mouth. Plus, you experience shame and embarrassment because you don’t eat the same as your peers. ARFID is incredibly complex, and not a lot of people really get it. One person who understands ARFID is San Diego eating disorder dietitian Maddie McClean, RD. She does amazing work helping folks of all ages get on the road to ARFID recovery.
Weight Inclusivity and Athletes: Hear From San Diego Dietitian Suzanne Smith, RD
A lot of times people assume that athletics and being thin go hand-in-hand. After all, how can you run down a San Diego beach or hike up a trail in California when you’re in a fat body? San Diego eating disorder dietitian Suzanne Smith disagrees. She takes a weight-inclusive approach when working with athletes. Her journey to this stance is fascinating—I’m so glad you’ll get to know her!
Childhood Trauma and Eating Disorders
Being in California or anywhere else in the world while struggling with an eating disorder really, really sucks. It is especially difficult when you’ve experienced childhood trauma. No matter what your trauma was, or how long it lasted, its effects often carry into adulthood and can manifest through eating disorder behaviors. In this blog post, I’ll not only explore what childhood trauma means, I’ll also identify signs that you’re experiencing a trauma response, and how your eating disorder may have served as a protective (yes, I said protective) mechanism for you over the years.
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!
My Binge Eating Recovery Story
It’s time to get real, folks. I’m going to talk about how binge eating is part of my eating disorder recovery story and how I overcame binge eating to live a full life in San Diego. It may be a little controversial, it may feel a little emotional, and I’m going to dive in and share anyway because it is so important for me to let you know that you CAN recover from binge eating.