Story via the Hudson Star-Observer: Nothing is more basic to human growth and development than food, but for some, including a lot of children, that relationship is fraught with fear. Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is a type of eating disorder where the consumption of certain foods is limited based on the food’s appearance, […]
Author: Dr. Kim DiRé
Holiday Tips for Eating Disordered Individuals and Their Families
Holidays can be the most triggering times for those with eating disorders. Thanksgiving, Christmas, Chanukah, New Year, and other holidays often are filled with anxiety and family obligations mostly centered around food. How can the eating disordered person deal with the stress during the holiday season? How can the family of the eating disordered person […]
Eating Disorders Aren’t Just For Women
Eating Disorders aren’t just for women. It is estimated one out of ten men have some type of Eating Disorder in America. A predisposition for an Eating Disorder, either an environmental outside stressor or a combination of both, are a baseline for how an Eating Disorder can start to manifest in a man’s everyday life. […]
Does ED Live in Your House?
Eating Disorders commonly called ED are a disease plaguing our modern world. The increase in individuals affected and reporting ED has become an epidemic unlike any other brain disorder. A couple of factors come together to form the chaos of an Eating Disorder. A biological predisposition has been linked to Eating Disorders as well as […]
Touching Trauma
Touching Trauma: Why Touch is used in Psychotherapy and what it looks like – The body instinctively defends against threat and fear of threat. It can perceive danger and reflex to fight, flight or freeze. The body prepares for the threat by releasing nor-epinepheron and epinephrine through the system in turn increasing it’s heart rate, […]
About Trauma
Trauma is an interesting phenomenon for mammals. We as human mammals have a more difficulty with trauma because our cognition can become part of getting stuck or frozen in time. By stuck, I mean the past becomes present in body sensation, memory, image, emotion, and/or behavior. A person no longer has a choice in his/her […]