Ditch the rules. Make peace with food. reclaim your life.
Therapy for Disordered Eating & Diet Recovery in Tampa and throughout FL
Do food rules literally rule your life?
It’s finally hit you that your relationship with food is having a major impact.
For a while you weren’t sure if this was an “issue” because all of the rules just seem so damn “normal” - everyone does it right? You might have been on diets for the majority of your life, restrict certain foods, or find yourself not being able to bring certain foods into your home for fear you are “out of control.”
With each new diet or plan comes new hope - hope that your body will be “fixed” and that you will be “healthier”. What also comes along with each new diet or restrictive plan is yet another sense of failure. A sense that you didn’t do it right or didn’t have enough willpower. You never blame the diet of course, only yourself. You just didn’t have enough “willpower", right?
You might find yourself acknowledging that you don’t want to diet anymore and wanting to work on your relationship with food, but have absolutely no idea where to start. This can feel so stressful that you end up not reaching out for help (especially when you aren’t sure what help even looks like) and staying stuck in the pattern you are in - simply because it feels like the safer route. It can be scary to find another way of living when diet culture is constantly telling you to “watch what you eat” and get on the next diet bandwagon. It can feel incredibly vulnerable to think about stepping outside the diet and food box you have been in your entire life.
Feel familiar?
Struggling with anxiety around food
Ready to stop basing your entire mood on what your weight is in the morning
Wishing that you could finally feel comfortable in your body
Hoping you can start living your life and stop waiting on your body to change
The impacts of disordered eating and chronic dieting go far beyond what you eat (or don’t eat).
Here’s what we’ll do together
It’s possible to move on from disordered eating and chronic dieting.
You didn’t decide that your body wasn’t good enough or that you needed to follow food rules. You were likely taught this by a mix of diet culture, well-meaning adults in your life, and mainstream beauty ideals that tell you that you aren’t good enough as you are. Together we can help you understand that this is not your fault. Diet culture has failed you, not the other way around. It is important to be able to understand that your coping up until this point has been rooted in deep wisdom, and a feeling that it was the only way for you to survive. We will take a non-judgmental stance so that you can drop the blame, shame, and guilt.
Once we understand the “why” of what brought you here, we can work on taking meaningful, values-led action and learn skills and tools to move forward. This could include getting to know the parts of yourself who feel that you need to engage in disordered eating or dieting in order to not get hurt in life, diving into Intuitive Eating and learning to make peace with food, your body and movement, and getting to know what your values are in life and how to stay true to them. You might want to do some deeper mindfulness processing where you can really connect with your core beliefs and start to develop new beliefs about yourself and the world.
When all is said and done, here’s the thing:
You have the capacity to learn another way to live - one that is in line with your values and will bring more meaning to your life.
What we’ll work on
Imagine a life where…
You feel confident and less stressed about making food choices
You can figure out a way of eating that works for your body
You learn how to get back in touch with your inner intuitive eater
Your mood is no longer dictated by the scale
You learn to live life in the body you are in and stop feeling like you need to change it
You allow yourself access to all foods without anxiety
You get to figure out what you actually like to eat
You understand why it was so hard to navigate diet culture and have a solid plan for how to move forward
You have the mental space to focus on the things that truly matter
Move on from disordered eating & Chronic dieting
Change is possible. I’ll help you get there.
Questions?
FAQs
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Disordered eating can refer to a range of behaviors/experiences, some of those being: a preoccupation with food or weight, inflexible eating patterns, restriction or compulsive eating, dieting behaviors, and more. Think about it this way – if you are spending a significant portion of your day worrying about food, you may be experiencing disordered eating. Don’t let this scare you – there is help!
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Description text goes hereDisordered eating can be a sign of an eating disorder, but many folks will struggle from disordered eating and either not receive a diagnosis or be told that their symptoms don’t qualify them for one. We live in a culture that constantly tells us to shrink our bodies and “focus on health”, while also glorifying behaviors that leave people struggling with their relationship with food and their bodies. You deserve help and support around your relationship with food, even if you have not been diagnosed with an eating disorder. Treatment will actually look quite the same in many cases! You do NOT need a diagnosis to be worthy of getting help and support.
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A few good questions to ask yourself are - How much of your energy is being taken up by worrying about food and your body? Is this stopping you from doing things that you feel are important in your life? Is it causing stress and anxiety? Leaning into the questions around just how much dieting or disordered eating is impacting your life can be an important place to start. Everyone will be impacted differently, but if you have any sense that this IS having an impact on your life, you deserve to access help and support. text goes here