Your relationship with your body and food feels like…a constant struggle.
You spend your days thinking a lot about how you are going to avoid food, eat food, avoid thinking about eating the food, obsessing about how to compensate for eating forbidden foods, and the list goes on.
On the outside, you seem calm, cool and collected. People think you have it all together, and sometimes you feel that way too. But deep down, you know that your food & exercise “stuff” is more complicated than you care to admit. You’re terrified of being judged for coming forward and getting help. You worry people in your life or health care providers will think you aren’t (fill in the blank) enough to have an eating disorder.
Somedays you’re proud of how your day has gone with food & exercise, but most of the time, whatever you do seems like it is never enough. It’s like you are chasing a rainbow, and just as you are close to catching the end, it moves farther away. So you keep trying harder and harder to feel good about your body. To prove to yourself that you can do this all alone. You are convinced that you’ll wake up feeling good about your body and resume eating normally again. But so far, that day has never come.
Eating Disorders can be quite varied in their presentation. Here are some of the most common presenting symptoms:
Pre-occupation with food types, amounts, and calories
Restricting food intake according to food rules, fears, or beliefs about food
Pre-occupation with your body shape & size
Intense fear or your weight increasing
Exercise or restricting to compensate for eating certain foods or amounts of food
Binging, Purging, use of laxatives or diuretics,
A general sense or fear of feeling out of control around food
Eating from very limited food types/groups
Excessive exercise
Denial or minimization of having a problem, even when others express concern
Rigidity about when & how you eat
Fear of eating in front of others
Your Inner Critic
Outside of the obsessiveness about food and body image, you have an extremely fast-acting inner critic. It’s so fast & stealthlike that you don’t even realize how harsh and punishing it can be. You tell yourself it’s helping you to do better, and be better but it never lets you rest and you never feel like whatever you do is good enough.
If self-loathing was an Olympic sport, you feel like you just might have a chance at being on the podium. You know you need a break from the pressure of self-criticism, the perfectionism, but you have no idea how to catch traction doing things any other way.
Let’s face it, if dedication, discipline, or self-hatred could solve the problems you face, they’d be fixed already. Hating yourself into the life you dream of and deserve, simply doesn’t work.
You Deserve Peace
Together we can work to help you unpack your expectations that are often unrelenting and unrealistic. We know that staying in these patterns with food and your body brings temporary relief to your inner critic, but only makes the problem worse over time.
You deserve to have space and to learn the tools that can set you free from your constant obsessions about your body and food. You deserved to be nourished at the soul level, even though right now that sounds way out of reach. You are tired. We see you. We know the pathway out of the mess you find yourself in. We believe that you are capable of fully recovering from an eating disorder and disordered eating. We will help you find compassion, peace & purpose- one step at a time.
Online Eating Disorder Treatment
Are you worried about how you'll find time to get to counseling sessions? Or does our website resonate with you but you don't live anywhere near our counseling offices in Provo or Salt Lake City, UT? Eating disorder treatment can also be done completely online. We have successfully provided counseling for eating disorders to women across the state of Utah.
Online therapy is a great option for those who live in other parts of the state or for those who have difficulty finding the time or transportation. The great news is that online therapy is very effective to treat eating disorders and our therapists regularly work with people who live throughout the SLC area or around the state. You can receive counseling for anxiety from the comfort of your own home via our HIPPA-compliant video counseling platform.
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Additional Mental Health Services Offered at Inside Wellness
Here at Inside Wellness, we provide a variety of online counseling services including counseling for body image, self-esteem, eating disorders, anxiety, and Virtual EMDR. Learn more about the specific services we offer below.