Articles and Interviews
What is ARFID? Symptoms, Causes, and Lived Experience
Learn about the less common eating disorder, Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder.
How Yoga Can Support Eating Disorder Recovery
Discover how yoga can help you challenge perfectionism, connect with your body, develop body positivity, and practice radical acceptance.
How to Challenge All-or-Nothing Thinking
All-or-nothing thinking (or "black-and-white thinking") is common in individuals with eating disorders and other mental health challenges. Dialectical thinking can help us challenge and reframe our thoughts.
Body Image: How to Transform Low Self-Worth
In Western culture, we are fed messages every day about what we “should” look like. In Eat Breathe Thrive’s Virtual Campfire series, we had the opportunity to change the narrative and take a break from our judgments about our bodies.
Stories of Eating Disorder Recovery: Cara Lisette
Eat Breathe Thrive: Stories of Eating Disorder Recovery is designed to give people with lived experience of eating disorders a space to share their personal journeys of recovery. In this blog post, Cara Lisette, a mental health nurse, blogger, and Etsy shop owner shares her experience of eating disorder recovery.
How to Bring Body Positivity into your Yoga Practice
Jill Lacasse shares how you can use your yoga practice to foster body acceptance and appreciation, rather than unhelpful comparisons and body dissatisfaction.
Yoga and Eating Disorders: Maris Degener on How Yoga Heals
Maris Degener, star of I Am Maris, shares her perspective on yoga, and how it has healed her relationship with her body, mind, and spirit.
Causes of Eating Disorders: What You Need to Know
What causes eating disorders? Mental health professionals recognize three overlapping spheres of influence: biological, psychological, and sociocultural forces.
Cardiovascular Complications of Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are serious, potentially life-threatening illnesses. While yoga can be an important tool at the right stage of recovery, it can also put some students at risk of serious health complications. Here are the four major types of cardiovascular complications all yoga teachers should be aware of.