Maggie Klyce Therapy and Consulting

I am re-reading “How to Raise an Intuitive Eater: Raising the Next Generation with Food and Body Confidence” by Sumner Brooks and Amee Severson . The concepts and messages in this book are especially important to remember as we move into the new year as it typically comes with a bombardment of negative messaging about food and body. If you are a parent or caregiver, this is a gentle reminder that even if you aren’t commenting negatively about your body or verbally labeling foods as “good” or “bad” that the children and adolescents in your life are paying attention to what you do. They notice what foods you are or are not eating, whether you purposely avoid pictures, etc. So even if your words aren’t conveying diet culture messaging, I encourage us all to continue to do the work so that our actions don’t either.

This is so important to remember! Just because it feels uncomfortable doesn’t mean it isn’t the right action to take.

This makes my inner nerd happy and highlights an important point to remember when viewing social media posts and headlines about food and weight. These posts often distort research findings in an effort to gain more views by promoting diet culture.

Such a funny show for anyone looking for a laugh and it has some good tidbits that can easily be applied to recovery. Recovery is a challenge, it isn’t easy. Dropping the expectation that it is suppose to be easy makes room for acceptance of the current reality. If it is hard in the beginning and feels like a struggle, it is a good indicator that you are making the recovery choice. It is hard in the beginning but it won’t be hard forever.

Absolutely! (Not that you can't ALSO have salt baths & chocolate cake. 😘)

Working to increase self compassion can support a reduction in both shame and eating disorder behaviors. Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff, Ph.D. has wonderful resources to begin this work!

Fascinating information about brain differences associated with genetic risk factors for eating disorders. This continues to dispel the myth that eating disorders are a choice and instead emphasizes how differences in brain structures may contribute to an individual’s susceptibility to developing an eating disorder.

Biological factors modulate eating disorder risk in early adolescents New Yale research reveals associations between genetics, brain structure, and eating disorder risk can be observed in children as young as 9 years old.

There were a ton of quotes that spoke to me from “The Mountain is You” by — I particularly love this one because it speaks to the small choices throughout the day that we make to bring us closer to our goals and the life we want to live. I encourage you to pay attention to the seemingly small shifts you can make this week that bring you closer to your recovery breakthrough.