DR MARIANNE MILLER

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

ARFID: How to Deal With the Mental and Physical Health Risks
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ARFID: How to Deal With the Mental and Physical Health Risks

Struggling with ARFID (Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder) is no joke. I’ve been working with teens and adults for years in San Diego who have ARFID. My heart goes out to them. Whether you live in sunny San Diego or elsewhere in California, Texas, Florida, and other states or countries, having ARFID means that others misunderstand you, and medical providers frequently misdiagnose you. It’s so isolating. You may have a hard time keeping on weight. You feel uncomfortable going to restaurants and eating in front of other people. Friends and family often say to you “just eat” or ask, “Why can’t you get over it? It’s just food.” They don’t understand that food isn’t “just food” to you. It’s so much more.

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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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Breaking the Shame Cycle: Embracing Self-Forgiveness in Binge Eating Recovery
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Breaking the Shame Cycle: Embracing Self-Forgiveness in Binge Eating Recovery

One common characteristic of the binge eating cycle is shame. Whether you’re in San Diego, New York, or London UK, shame is such a tough feeling to experience. When I think of shame, I think of a crippling emotion that causes you to turn inward into yourself. You want to disappear. In order to break the shame cycle in binge eating recovery in San Diego and elsewhere means that you need to embrace self-forgiveness. How? Read on to learn about three steps to get you started.

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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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Body Acceptance and Self-Love: Nurturing Positive Body Image in Binge Eating Recovery

Body Acceptance and Self-Love: Nurturing Positive Body Image in Binge Eating Recovery

Body acceptance is actually a controversial topic. When you are in binge eating recovery in San Diego, NYC, and London (UK) and are working on nurturing a positive body image, it’s important to unpack the notion of body acceptance before diving into it. It is a complex, challenging focus that deserves attention.

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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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Thriving in Binge Eating Recovery: Strategies for Sustaining Long-Term Success in London (& in the UK)

Thriving in Binge Eating Recovery: Strategies for Sustaining Long-Term Success in London (& in the UK)

It’s so important to build in relapse prevention when you’re aiming for long-term success in binge eating recovery, especially when you live in such a big, vibrant city such as London, England. Relapse prevention means that you are able to identify early red flags of relapse, and then implement coping skills to correct your recovery course. When you live in a high-pressure environment like London, UK, it’s important to have a strategy so that the first little red flag you see, you can turn away from it.

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