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Hear from Beyond's eating disorder therapists and eating disorder dietitians about relevant topics related to eating disorders, diet-culture, feeding children, and mental health topis!


Traveling While Fat: Tips From a Fat Eating Disorder Therapist
Author: Kait Vanderlaan, LCSW Traveling to a new place can be such an amazing experience, but it can also be stressful when you live in a...

Kait Vanderlaan, LCSW
Mar 5, 20246 min read
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Reconnecting with Your Playful Self: Recreation Therapy
Author: Lauren Callahan, LCSW When was the last time you played? For some of us, the answer may go as far back as our childhoods. As children, we innately know how to play and enter imaginative worlds. Naturally curious, inquisitive, and creative, children use play to learn about and make sense of the extraordinary and mystifying world around them. At some point, we trade play for the pursuit of straight As and the next promotion. We forget the importance of playfulness in ou

Lauren Callahan, LSW
Jan 5, 20245 min read
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4 Tips for Hosting an Eating Disorder-Informed Thanksgiving
The holidays can be a very stressful time for people with eating disorders. With more family gatherings centered around food, there are...

Emma Leister, RD
Nov 14, 20233 min read
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3 Spooky Myths about Sugar
Sugar is an increasingly hot topic in the nutrition world ever since we all got sick of the depressing low fat era of the 90s. But sugar...

Emma Leister, RD
Oct 16, 20234 min read
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Tips for Navigating Intuitive Eating with Food Allergies
Learning to be an anti-diet intuitive eater means relearning listening to our bodies when deciding what and how much to eat. The idea is...

Erin Kinley
Sep 27, 20233 min read
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