Top Benefits of Receiving Eating Disorder therapy according to an Eating Disorder Therapist in Pennsylvania
Eating disorders steal so much from you.
But, while you’re in the thick of it, it can be hard to see just how consuming and LIFE-STEALING they really are.
Something that we see frequently is a sort of ambivalence to starting treatment for your eating disorder. While your eating disorder causes a significant amount of isolation, obsession, and pain, it has also served a purpose in helping you cope with overwhelming life experiences or self-beliefs.
If you’re experiencing some ambivalence when it comes to starting or resuming, your recovery from your eating disorder, we want you to know that we get it. And, you undeniably deserve a life that is free from exhausting behaviors, shame and anxiety spirals, and a disconnected experience of your body.
Starting therapy for your eating disorder is brave. And after working with countless clients who are in recovery, we want you to know what we believe to be the top benefits of receiving therapy for your eating disorder.
Having a hype girl who provides time and space, just for you, to process your ambivalence, your hopes, YOUR goals, your desires, and your visions for the future.
Consider us your hype girls!
In the therapy room, it’s all about you. Which, yes, might be a bit uncomfortable for you to get used to. But, it’s so important for you to have a space where you can exhale and just. be. you.
Starting therapy for your eating disorder is an opportunity to explore and process some of your ambivalence while setting recovery goals that are most important to you. Good therapy is all about you. What the healthiest part of you wants. What all of you deserve in your life. And having the support to learn new skills and tools to help you get there.
Understanding how and why the eating disorder part of you functions.
We do a ton of parts work here at Reclaim Therapy. That means that we see your eating disorder as a part of you, not all of you. When we can get curious about your eating disorder part, and start to build a new compassionate and respectful relationship with it, we can understand its strategy of it and the reason why it functions the way it does. Why and how it really serves you. Why and how it protects you. What and who it could be protecting you from.
We’re not the type of practice that hates on your eating disorder. We respect what it has done for you, while holding the belief that your needs that are working so hard to provide for, can also be met in other ways, with new strategies. Strategies that are life-enhancing and infused with curiosity and connectedness.
A benefit of receiving therapy for your eating disorder is getting to know the YOU outside of your eating disorder. The self that believes that you need, and are worthy, of more than an obsession with food and your body. Our clients work hard to develop, strengthen and learn to trust this part of themselves. Which carries over in the face of so many life challenges and celebrations.
More access to SELF-COMPASSION.
Self-compassion isn’t something that we’re taught. Often, it is a skill that is developed over time. So many of us are used to a strong, harsh, critical voice. A voice that we take as fact. When you engage in therapy for your eating disorder, self-compassion is something that you practice, over and over again. It is one of the greatest tools our clients take with them after treatment.
Engaging in self-care in ways that honor your values.
Eating disorder behaviors are typically steeped in judgment and shame Often times you might find yourself engaging in “self-care” when really it is an extension of the eating disorder. Eating disorder therapy helps you define your values in different areas of your life and helps you learn how to lean into those values without feeding your eating disorder.
A deepened connection to honoring what you’re hungry for.
In eating disorder treatment we look at hunger through many lenses. We will help you understand what you’re hungry for physiologically, emotionally, relationally, recreationally and spiritually, and support you to learn how to honor each experience to your fullest capacity.
freedom from cyclical behaviors and thoughts.
It can feel like eating disorder thoughts and behaviors will never stop. But, overtime, they can soften. Eating disorder therapy supports you in learning ways to move through impulses, intrusive thoughts and hooks from your eating disorder to bring you back to the depths of it.
Recovery from your eating disorder is possible. In person and online therapy in Pennsylvania for eating disorders can help.
Our goal is to help you see and begin to feel that freedom on the other side of your eating disorder is like an exhale. An exhale from being trapped in the tight grips of self-objectification, judgement and disconnectedness.
Our therapists specialize in treating eating disorders and body image concerns and are ready to help you start to feel the benefits of eating disorder treatment.
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We provide in-person therapy in Horsham, PA, and online eating disorder therapy in Pennsylvania.
The therapists at Reclaim Therapy specialize in treating trauma, loss and grief, body image concerns, and eating disorders including binge eating. We also provide EMDR therapy, Somatic therapy, and treatment for men. Our team would be honored to support you on your journey toward reclaiming YOU.