Maintaining Recovery Over Summer Vacation
Maintaining recovery from an eating disorder is a lifetime journey and an around-the-clock job. You do not get to go on vacation from your recovery. In fact, vacations can be some of the toughest times...
View ArticleWhat Does Weight Stigma Awareness Week Mean to You?
Weight Stigma Awareness Week is fast approaching; from September 26 through September 30 of this year, eating disorder recovery organizations across the country will seek to draw attention to the...
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Stop Bullying, #1LifeAtATime
There is no denying that bullying often has lasting effects on the people who have been bullied—and that in some cases, those effects may include the development of an eating disorder. According to...
View ArticleBullying and Eating Disorders by Lolly Wool, Therapist at Castlewood...
By Lolly Wool, Therapist Listening to a client give an account of being called horrible names, being beat up in a bathroom or getting text or Facebook messages with degrading names, is the proof that...
View ArticleEating Disorders and the LGBT Community
For the month of June, Castlewood is focusing our #ColorfulRecovery Campaign on the issue of eating disorders within the LGBT community. The entire purpose of this campaign is to educate, inform, make...
View ArticleAthletes Under Pressure: An Everyday Struggle
By any standard, Gracie Gold is an accomplished skater and an admirable athlete—yet her 2016 hasn’t been quite as smooth as she may have hoped. Gold recently came in fifth place at this year’s Skate...
View ArticleWarning Signs of Over Exercise
Something we often say at Castlewood is that eating disorders are not fundamentally about food; in fact, some of the defining characteristics of eating disorders have little to do with food or with...
View ArticleProtect Yourself from Cyberbullying
We’ve blogged in the past about bullying, and the various ways in which it contributes to eating disorders. As we have noted, many of our own clients come to us attesting to experiences with bullies;...
View ArticleSpeaking Words of Compassion to Those in Recovery
When you know someone who is in eating disorder recovery, it’s only natural that you’d want to be an encouragement to them—to say something that boosts their spirits, rallies their confidence, or...
View ArticleWhat Does Self-Love Look Like in Eating Disorder Recovery?
Before you can truly commit to ongoing recovery, you have to believe that you’re worth it. You have to believe that you deserve a life of fullness, wholeness, and wellness. You have to love...
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