Eating Disorder blog about eating disorder treatment, food, body, movement, and mental health. By Opal: Food + Body Wisdom.
An address to the Puget Sound IAEDP Community at the Winter Celebration of Life December 6, 2014 Amae “In graduate school, I took a philosophy course where we explored Elisabeth Young-Bruehl and Faith Bethelard’s book titled “Cherishment: A Psychology of the Heart.” It has always stuck with me. Perhaps because Read more…
Historically, I have struggled to identify myself as a social justice advocate. In my younger years, my introversion and lack of confidence made it challenging to even know what I believed in, much less to use my voice publicly. Through my own recovery process in early adulthood, however, I learned Read more…
In today’s post, one Opal client eloquently reflects on how her eating disorder recovery journey paralleled her experience with learning to tend a garden. Growing up my mom always loved to garden, but I just didn’t see the point. I hated when she would ask me to help her; dirt Read more…
“Never would I have imagined as a college freshman athlete that I would be presenting 17 years later at an Athlete & Eating Disorders conference!” This was my opening remark as I presented last Saturday at St. Louis University at the first annual Victory Conference. I was amongst practitioners from Read more…
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I always look back with gratitude to the first time I was introduced to the Health At Every Size® message. I was a graduate student studying nutrition and health psychology and eager to help others. I was excited to say the least, that there was an alternative to the diet and weight loss interventions I so commonly knew. (more…)
Kara Bazzi, MS, LMFT, CEDS, was interviewed for the April 2014 edition of Seattle Health Magazine! Check out the article here or go pick up a copy!
The training will be June 25th -29th, from 9am – 5pm each day, with an hour break for lunch at noon and two 15-minute breaks- once in the morning and once in the afternoon. There are several area restaurants to choose from for lunch. The training will conclude Sunday Read more…
I am in awe of our clients. Not a day goes by that I don’t find myself inspired by their gutsy work. Every day, they walk towards what they desperately fear and then show up the next day to do it all again. It is an absolute honor to have Read more…
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Home. Home is a word that typically evokes images of cozy sofas, a warm fireplace, comfort foods, and loving faces. When most of us think of home, we feel a sense of peace and safety. Sometimes, though, the places that we call home in certain periods of our lives are Read more…