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By: Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS Thanksgiving is a special time for many - a time to be grateful, connect with loved ones, and enjoy delicious...

By: Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS Have you ever noticed that the behaviors we tend to associate with health can also be warning signs for...

By: Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS Are certain people in your life overly interested in your weight or food choices? Do they make comments about...

By: Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS Happy Halloween, everyone! 🎃👻 We know that this holiday, with all its sweet, sugary candy, can be...

Quick Mindset-Shift for Eating Disorder Recovery By: Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS If you're struggling with an eating disorder, you've been...

By: Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS I love coffee ☕️ The aroma when brewing, the taste of it with frothy milk, and the energy it gives me. But...

By Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS 🌟 Struggling with an eating disorder can also mean battling anxiety. 💔 Worries about body image, eating...

Eating Disorder Recovery Poetry In the battle to be loved, I tried to be pretty. But not too pretty, for fear of attracting danger. A...

By: Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS It's normal to want people to like you. 😊 But it's extraordinary to genuinely like yourself so that even...

By: Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS I don't know if Lizzo and her staff body-shamed her dancers. It needs to be sorted out in a legal process....

By: Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS If you're struggling with binge eating or other eating patterns that feel out of your control, don't beat...

By Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS Body dysmorphia is a distorted perception of your body that can result from being mistreated, shamed, or...

By: Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS In pursuit of better health, many of us have been lured into the trap of restrictive eating strategies...

By: Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS Eating disorders appear to revolve around a fear of food and weight gain, or an uncontrollable pattern of...

By: Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS I know that you can get validation by restricting your food and losing a little weight. But there's a risk to...

By: Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS Amy Bloom said, "You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful." Perfectionism,...

By: Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS When you go to the mirror which voices from the past come with you? The voices of those who criticized,...

By Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS There is no perfect body. The obsession with a trending body type, whether thin or thick, curvy or straight,...

By: Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS In her book The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolfe writes, “A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession...

By Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS Perhaps we're so used to be told that we should watch our weight and monitor our diet that when we become...