Completing eating disorder treatment at Avalon Hills is a significant milestone in one's journey to recovery. It marks a turning point in the battle against disordered eating, but it's important to remember that the road to a healthier,...
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Art Therapy and Healing: Expressing Emotions in Eating Disorder Recovery
Art Therapy and Healing: Expressing Emotions in Eating Disorder Recovery Eating disorders often stem from complex emotional struggles that can be challenging to put into words. This is where art therapy comes into play, offering...
Family Matters in Recovery: Avalon Hills’ Approach to Involving Loved Ones
When it comes to overcoming eating disorders, the support and involvement of family members can be a game-changer. At Avalon Hills Eating Disorder Specialists, we recognize that healing extends beyond the individual and into the family...
Navigating Relapse: Building Resilience and Seeking Help
Embracing body positivity and cultivating self-love are integral to the transformative journey of eating disorder recovery. At Avalon Hills Eating Disorder Specialists, we believe in empowering women to challenge societal beauty...
5 Things to Remember When Going Through Recovery
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...
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...