Prior to my daughter’s anorexia, if you had asked me to list my biggest parenting mistakes, I would have had a short list. Even after 17 years of mothering 3 kids, I would have needed
My daughter's obsession with baking family birthday cakes was one of the earliest signs of an eating disorder, and I didn't know it. Now I know what I didn't know back then: I can
If you are like me, you constantly search for the latest research on anorexia. During one of my many searches, I found a starvation study that explains anorexia. I immediately thought it was the best
Since my teen ballerina's anorexia diagnosis, I have noticed that there is a widespread belief that ballet causes eating disorders. Considering my daughter's serious involvement in ballet during the development of her illness, I could
Do you need to address your thoughts and feelings about food, weight, and eating before you will be able to effectively feed your anorexic daughter? I naively thought that if my daughter would just start
The first week we started re-feeding our daughter, we thought we were doing a great job because even with her resistance, we got her to eat three full meals every day. We were shocked
It is an emergency for parents when anorexia takes hold of their daughter. An anorexic's health rapidly deteriorates if she continues to restrict food and lose weight. It is therefore very important to get medical
I was overweight as a child. I still remember what it was like being the fat girl. And for a while after losing weight, even when I was the thinnest I had ever been, I
We’ve all heard that hindsight is 20/20. It also makes sense to remember that the past is over, and we don’t benefit from blaming ourselves for things we didn’t know before we had all of
I remember my initial reaction to a concept that my teacher, Brooke Castillo, taught me. When she declared that life is 50 percent positive and 50 percent negative, I did not want to accept that
