Articles on Eating Disorders
Experiential Modalities are Very Effective in the Treatment of Eating Disorders. PDF Print E-mail

Orit Morse. M.A. (C)OACCPP

New Realities uses experiential modalities like guided imagery, psychodrama, art therapy, movement and other body oriented therapies to take you out of your thinking and into your breathing to promote a true and inherently corrective healing.

Individuals with Eating Disorders may have lost their signals for what is true hunger for food and what is a hunger for other life necessities like love, nurturing, sexual expression, career fulfillment, spiritual fulfillment, asserting themselves, conflict resolution, relationship issues, self care vs. Caring for others just to name a few.

Through body consciousness and hunger awareness exercises we can re-learn the difference between the need for food and the need for any of the latter.

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Behind The Veils of Eating Disorders: A Connection to Spirituality PDF Print E-mail

Orit Morse M.A. (C)OACCPP New Realities Eating Disorders Recovery Centre
Leah Shapira B.A.

What does it mean to be “nourished?” To many, the idea of nourishment is associated with the provision of sustenance to the body, mainly in the form of food and water. Such a Westernized conceptualization ignores the fact that one’s mind, spirit and body all need to be nourished in order to survive and thrive. The mind, body, and spirit are intimately connected and an individual must provide nourishment to all aspects of the self to attain feelings of being alive and full. Spirituality is not a unitary concept. Rather, it encompasses three aspects. Spirituality on an individual level relates to the connection with one’s inner self, that is, how one nourishes their own individual soul and fulfills their life and universal purpose. However, this inner spirituality needs to arise in conjunction with a spiritual connection to others, satisfying the human need for interpersonal relationships, as well as a larger ‘cosmic’ spirituality that bring awareness to and links us to the greater universe we are a part of. This process is slow and the journey towards a sense of spiritual fullness can span decades and lifetimes. This article will explore the journey an eating disordered individual takes when developing her mind, body, and spirit and the role eating disorders may play in understanding one’s greater purpose in life and learning how to achieve true and long lasting nourishment.

 

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Intuitive Eating PDF Print E-mail

Patricia Kelly, MA, (C)OACCPP

Intuitive Eating is eating when, what and as much as you want by listening to your inner wisdom, trusting your body's signals and honouring your body's needs. You knew how to eat intuitively when you were born and then you learned lots of  "rules" about eating. Dieting and other factors may have led you to develop patterns of compulsive eating or yo-yo dieting. Intuitive Eating can be re-learned.

Eating When You Want

Eating intuitively is eating only when you are hungry: only when your body wants food.

So many factors teach us that we should eat when someone else, or the clock, says it's time. When we diet, we look to outside authorities to tell us when to eat . When we get hungry when it isn't the right time, we choose not to eat , or we eat and feel guilty.

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