For an individual dealing with an eating disorder, their thoughts, actions, and beliefs, are often tied up in their relationship with food. As they go through the recovery process, they are forced to remold their processes as they mend...
Recovery
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Helping a Loved One with an Eating Disorder
If you recognize alarming eating disorder habits in a friend or family member, brushing it under the rug or ignoring the symptoms will not help it go away. While you cannot force someone to change, you can offer them support and a helping...
Relapse & Eating Disorders
Recovery from an eating disorder is far from linear and can be a difficult, ongoing process. Relapse is a common part of recovery and according to the National Eating Disorders Association, is anytime an individual resorts back to...
Why Dieticians are Important to Recovery from Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are complex in nature and have both psychological and physical consequences for the individual they affect. To reach recovery, treatment is required by a handful of teams designated to help different aspects of the...
Eating Disorder Recovery
Eating disorder recovery can be broken down into 5 stages. The first two stages involve denying the issue at hand and avoiding help. The third and fourth stages occur when the individual admits they have a problem and begins to seek help...
Psychotherapy as a Form of Eating Disorder Treatment
Psychotherapy, or talk therapy, is a way to help people with a broad variety of mental illnesses and emotional difficulties and generally involves talking to a trained professional. This professional's role is to help their client learn...
Yoga and Eating Disorder Recovery
Yoga has been around for over 3,000 years and has been a longstanding programming component at Avalon Hills. A common finding for those who are dealing with an eating disorder that is evident in both the research literature and our...
What Being a Member of the Avalon Hills Treatment Team has Taught Me
By Rachel RoodLead Dietician Recently, I made the difficult decision to make a career shift. It was a very hard decision given the love I have had for working in a residential setting that truly values helping our patients find...
Letter to Those Struggling: HoldOnPainEnds
We are featuring another guest blog spot from a soulful former patient, Courtney. We are so grateful for her tenacity and commitment to her recovery. Also, that she is able to so eloquently articulate the struggles and speak to us where...
Body Image Acceptance: Shopping Experientials
By Jill JensenCase Manager There are many areas of work for each individual pursuing recovery. One of the most difficult obstacles for many of our patients is body image acceptance. Body image is often one of the last areas to change and...
Supporting the recovery process
By BreAnne NolandCase Manager I first learned about Avalon Hills while taking a physiology course at Utah State University and was immediately excited to apply. Unfortunately, I am no stranger when it comes to the topic of eating...
Reconnecting With Life
One of the many things that sets Avalon Hills apart is our willingness and determination to treat each patient at the individual level and not attempt to apply one treatment model to everyone. Avalon understands that each patient has...