Therapy for Body Image and Eating Challenges
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Tell me if any of this sounds familiar:
You're already running late for your friend's BBQ and you're scrambling to find an outfit. Your floor is cluttered with clothes you've already tried on but you don't like how you look in anything. You're getting more stressed, frustrated, and insecure with every outfit you try on and take back off. You don't even want to go anymore. The day's been ruined.
or maybe this:
You're out to dinner with a few other couples and while you're listening to the conversation happening, you also find yourself constantly assessing how you look in your mind. You're adjusting your clothes, shifting your sitting position, and repeatedly monitoring how you're moving so that you can ensure that nothing is bulging out or looking unflattering. You're on edge the whole night, but what else is new?
or this:
You're trying to watch a movie with your kids but it's hard to relax because you know there are donuts in the kitchen. You're going back and forth in your mind: "I should be able to enjoy a donut on movie night with my kids," to "Donuts are bad, no wonder I can't lose weight" to "why can't I stop thinking about these donuts?" to "am I even hungry?" to "I can just have a half" to "If I start eating them, I'll never stop" to "Why can't I just be normal?"
If you're struggling with body-related insecurities and body image issues, a long history of trying all the diets, emotional eating or binge eating, or a generally dysfunctional relationship with food and your body:
You're Not Alone
So many of us raised in the era of fad diets, almond moms, thin-obsessed media, and raging diet culture find ourselves stuck and reeling from the damage.
We are consumed by thoughts about our bodies, trying to change our bodies, and disliking our bodies, which is exhausting and stressful, but we don't know how to change it.
We've lost touch with our natural, intuitive ways of eating and feel like we can't eat "normally" anymore. We struggle with constant thoughts about food, tension and stress around eating, food rules, guilt, shame, you name it.
And maybe we use food to cope, feel out-of-control around food, or binge eat.
If this sounds like you, therapy can help.
"But I don't have an eating disorder"
You do NOT need to meet criteria for an eating disorder to benefit from therapy.
In fact, the overwhelming large group of women who struggle with dysfunctional eating and body image, but do not meet criteria for eating disorders, is perhaps one of the most overlooked groups that actually benefit from therapy the most.
Therapy can really help body image issues and eating challenges.
It can help you to:
+ develop a different, healthier relationship with your body, one with less hurt, stress, criticism, and insecurity
+ help you thrive and find comfort in the skin you're in, in your clothes, in pictures, and enjoy your life without being preoccupied with your body image
+ spend less time adjusting your clothes, agonizing over outfit choices, and editing pictures, and more time being present and doing the things that bring you joy, with ease
+ reconnect with your body, bodily cues, needs, what feels good in your body and what doesn't, so that you can eat with more intuition, ease, and comfort
+ understand, unravel, and unlearn beliefs about your body that no longer serve you
+ learn why you eat the way you do, and how to shift to a healthier relationship with food and eating
+ develop the insight and skills to manage unhelpful ways of approaching food, as well as binge eating
+ start to care for your body in the way it needs and feels good for you
+ feel more confident, empowered, and secure in your body
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