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Archive | Eating Disorders

15 November 2011 ~ 2 Comments

Guest Post: College Students, Exercise and Eating Disorders

Jill Will Run Note: As someone who is in recovery from an eating disorder, I like to share information about ED’s and how they can affect people in all different walks of life.  Sometimes it is nice to have something that is from a view other than my own.  Today’s post comes from Marina Salsbury. [...]

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29 September 2011 ~ 10 Comments

Pin Positivity

I love Pinterest!  I think it’s a lot of fun to “pin” ideas that I find inspiring without having to necessarily accumulate all the clutter of actual paper.  It’s convinced me that I could possibly build some of my own furniture (or… uh, make my husband build it, “It will be soooooo easy, just get [...]

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21 June 2011 ~ 13 Comments

Tangible

I like things that are concrete.  Real.  Tangible. It doesn’t necessarily have to be something that I can hold; but I do prefer being able to see it, feel it, recognize it or know it. Running feels tangible to me.  I can see that I have run X many miles.  I can see that I [...]

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18 May 2011 ~ 7 Comments

Mental Health Month

In 1949 Congress designated May as Mental Health Month.  (That’s in addition to it being Skin Cancer Awareness Month!)  Anyway, the purpose of the designation is to illustrate the importance of mental health issues to the overall health and well-being of American citizens. The phrase “mental health” has a lot of stigma surrounding it, in [...]

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03 May 2011 ~ 3 Comments

Treadmills & Eating Disorders

This is a guest post by Aaron O’Connor, a former track & field athlete, currently a writer and amateur fitness trainer in Washington state. TreadmillReviews.net blog In general, exercise is a healthy behavior that encourages physical fitness and well-being. Yet for those individuals who suffer from eating disorders, exercise can become an obsession or compulsion, [...]

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25 February 2011 ~ 5 Comments

Societal ED

I don’t know if you’ve really observed this, but if you pay attention… our society really loves disordered eating.  It embraces it. It celebrates it. It worships it. The phrase “societal ED” doesn’t necessarily mean that society has an eating disorder, but there is a clear message in the world today, particularly in America, that [...]

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