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Your Mental Health Matters More Than Any Eating Choice Or Number on the Scale
It's the new year and I've been hearing people beat themselves up for their food choices and weight. I just want to remind my friends in...
Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS
Jan 12, 20241 min read
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How to Improve Body Image Without Focusing on Weight
By: Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS Want to improve your body image without focusing on weight? Check out this guide to help you feel better...
Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS
Dec 26, 20235 min read
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Navigating Unsolicited Body and Food Comments this Holiday Season
By: Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS This holiday season, will you you be gathering friends and family who just can't help themselves when it...
Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS
Dec 17, 20235 min read
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Quick-shift from Worry to Wellness
By Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS 🌟 Struggling with an eating disorder can also mean battling anxiety. 💔 Worries about body image, eating...
Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS
Oct 3, 20231 min read
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How guilty-eating effects your health, hunger, and eating patterns.
By: Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS The food and diet industries have created a modern-day morality test, what you eat is a sign of your goodness...
Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS
Jun 16, 20232 min read
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Little ways to protest weight stigma and diet dogma to support eating disorder recovery.
In the 60s, feminists burned their bras at a Miss America contest to protest the oppressive images of female beauty that were being...
Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS
May 31, 20232 min read
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Trying to fit a square peg into a round hole isn't a health strategy...
Ever try to fit a square peg into a round hole? <-- Here's what happens. The force by which you shove it, causes damage to the square...
Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS
May 28, 20231 min read
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What looks like a person living their best life, could be a health crisis.
#eatingdisorderrecovery If you're in recovery and your friend loses a bunch of weight and starts flaunting it, it can really trigger your...
Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS
May 25, 20232 min read
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Leave Diet Talk off the Menu (for Eating Disorder Prevention)
I was eating dinner at a restaurant when a teen at the next table ordered a hamburger and fries. An adult at her table said, "How do you...
Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS
May 22, 20232 min read
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Respecting Your Teen's Growing Body & Food Choices for Eating Disorder Prevention
Parents, I know you mean well when you point out your teens' weight gain or nudge them toward dieting; but these things don't help. Your...
Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS
May 18, 20232 min read
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The Hamster Wheel of a Weight-Focused Life
[Support for Eating Disorder Recovery] An older woman once said to me, 'I spent my entire life trying to change my body. And for what?...
Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS
May 8, 20231 min read
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Weight-Increasing Effects of Dieting
People, we need a reframe! The diet industry taught us that by restricting food, we can lose weight. But research shows that, for the...
Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS
May 6, 20231 min read
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Ever see a lion on a diet?
Have you ever seen a lion on a diet? Or a herd of zebras fretting about their carb intake? Of course not. These majestic creatures use...
Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS
Apr 30, 20231 min read
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"Annoying Bra Fat"???
Author: Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS So, there's an exercise class that I enjoy and do often. The only thing I don't like about the class is...
Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS
Mar 13, 20232 min read
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Diet Talk Goes Viral
Author: Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS Yesterday, I overheard a mother body-shaming herself in front of her husband and kids. I hurt for her....
Alison Ross, LMFT, CEDS
Mar 11, 20231 min read
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