DR MARIANNE MILLER
CARING EATING DISORDER TREATMENT IN SAN DIEGO AND THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA, TEXAS, AND WASHINGTON D.C. FOR ADULTS & TEENS
Mindful Movement: Incorporating Exercise in Binge Eating Recovery
A lot of my binge eating coaching clients in the U.S., UK, and Canada, as well as my eating disorder therapy clients in California, struggle with the degree to which they ought to integrate exercise into binge eating recovery. It is a tricky balance because it’s difficult to know when to step away from working out because it’s become part of the eating disorder, and when to add it back into your lifestyle in a mindful, intentional way. Identifying coping strategies to help you do so is key.
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.
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!
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 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.
Bulimia: How to Deal with the Mental and Physical Health Risks
Bulimia is no joke. There are so many mental health risks, as well as physical health risks, that you need to be aware of in order to know how to deal with it. Whether you’re in London, NYC, or San Diego, struggling with bulimia is especially difficult because you want to be out and about, enjoying the sights and having fun, when all you can do is focus on what you’re eating and how you’re going to get rid of it. Understanding the risks is paramount so you can move forward in your recovery.
Breaking Free from Body Image Pressure: 5 Steps for Self-Love and Empowerment
If you struggle with binge eating and bulimia in California, Florida, Colorado, London, or anywhere else in the world, you’re likely grappling with body image pressure. The drive to have a certain body type is so strong, you can’t escape it. The fact is, you deserve to live a life filled with self-love and empowerment. Body image pressure takes away your power because it gets you to focus on changing your body instead of killing it in other ways of your life. It truly hijacks your brain. So let’s focus on five steps to cultivate self-love and empowerment so that you can life a life free from body image pressure.
3 Tips on How to Leave Diet Culture and Eating Disorders Behind in London (& Throughout the UK)
Diet culture is so pervasive. It’s like we’re swimming in an ocean of it, and whether you’re in San Diego or NYC, it’s with you wherever you go. Many people who live in London also struggle with diet culture and eating disorders. It can be especially difficult in England and elsewhere in the UK in the winter months (and even some of the spring) because there’s not much sunlight and a lot of gray skies. Here are three tips to help you leave diet culture and eating disorders behind in London and throughout the UK.
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.