Center for Eating Disorders

10/22/2025

We have an excellent team of clinical dietitians at the Center for Eating Disorders, skilled in working with children, teens, and adults with eating disorders and body image issues along with co-occurring mood disorders, trauma, and related conditions.

Amanda Villescas, RD and Kristina Tate, MPH, RD offer a client-centered approach that is highly individualized, collaborative, and tailored to individual needs and circumstances always seeking to find what works best for you.

10/21/2025

10/21/2025

Healing is a beautifully dynamic process. Our psyches and bodies can heal if we get out of the way. And that means a lot of letting go - of stories we tell ourselves that aren’t true, feelings that we are used to but often deceive us, patterns that are second nature. But step by step it happens, naturally. And we come home to ourselves.
We wish this for you, for anyone and everyone who suffers from an eating disorder.

10/19/2025

Excellent post from about what people with eating disorders want from treatment and their providers. Our field needs to listen to what people want in terms of care, not what insurance companies dictate.


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Last week, we asked our wonderful online communities about what clinicians wanted to know about providing the best care for those with longstanding eating disorders and also what those with longstanding eating disorders wanted clinicians to know. SO many people shared such thoughtful, helpful, and impactful thoughts. While Dr. G, Elyse Resch, and Dr. Beth Hartman McGilley will be gratefully reviewing each and every comment, message, and email that was sent to prepare for their Renfrew keynote presentation, the main themes that kept showing up in the numerous messages from those with longstanding eating disorders were so impactful that we wanted to ensure everyone received the opportunity to see and learn from them.

To everyone who shared, thank you so very much. 💚 Also, did something major get missed? Is there a particular message that was captured that feels especially important to you?

10/16/2025

A compassionate, understanding sounding board can do wonders. Talking or writing to a caring person about difficult times can be deeply healing. Expressing ourselves to another person helps us work through impasses and resolve emotional stuck points.
We often can feel like we are broken records, even in therapy, rehashing the same issues over and over. But talking it through with someone who is curious and actively listening can, over time, help us gain clarity and work through troubling emotions.

Therapy works that way. Good friendships too, loving relationships with people who believe in you. Simply the act of talking about an internal experience to someone who is truly listening can be healing. Even if it takes 100 conversations or 500.

Healthy, supportive human relationships that offer room for talking about and working through life’s traumas and challenges are pure gold. A therapist can serve that role, a treasured friend, a minister or teacher, a parent or sibling. The need to be heard and to talk through complicated or vexing life issues is human. Sometimes over and over until we figure it out. In therapy that’s called “working it through”. It is a healing process.

10/16/2025

What would our field do without bringing the truth, deconstructing the weight loss industry and weight stigma in our field and in the field of medicine and research day after day. Her contribution is deep and important and we are grateful for it.
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The weight loss industry is throwing every bit of spaghetti they can at the wall to try to get simply existing while fat to be considered a lifelong disease. They’ve been influencing the WHO since the beginning which may be why so many scientists produced a definition that is so ridiculously unscientific.

We can’t fall for this and we need to call it out when we see it.

To read more about this, check out “Does this Semaglutide (Wegovy) study really show four-year sustained weight loss? Part 2”

on WeightAndHealthcare.com

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Weight Loss Study:
“The WHO defines clinical ob*sity as ‘abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that may impair health.”

Me
That’s not a scientific definition of “clinical” anything.

“may impair health?” How are we determining that?

While we’re at it, how are we defining
“abnormal” or “excessive” or “impair”

How are we differentiating health “impairments” that “may” be caused by whatever “abnormal or excessive fat accumulation” is,
from the exact same “impairments” that happen to thin people?

Health orgs MUST do better than a
“clinical definition” that was driven by the weight loss industry to give them the largest possible market.

10/14/2025

We love these words from

Healing is letting go of defenses that no longer serve you. As these defenses, including ED thoughts and behaviors and trauma responses transform you feel safer to be more authentically you.

10/13/2025

💬 This week’s support groups at F.E.A.S.T.:

Monday: Caregiver Support Group [CANCELLED due to holiday]

Tuesday: Sibling Support Group at 5pm PT / 8pm ET
• Open to siblings 13+ navigating life alongside a loved one with an eating disorder
• A safe, peer-led space to share and connect

Thursday: Caregiver Support Group at 11am PT / 2pm ET
• Open to parents, spouses, roommates, and anyone in a caregiving role

Thursday: Men of F.E.A.S.T. at 10am PT / 1pm ET
• A dedicated community for fathers and male caregivers
• Share experiences, access resources, and find solidarity in your caregiving journey

📎 Register here: feast-ed.org/supportgroup-reg or feast-ed.org/men-of-feast

10/13/2025

Recovery is a multi-layered complex process of personal growth and integration. Sometimes it can feel like you aren’t getting anywhere, that it’s hopeless. It isn’t.

We have been treating people with eating disorders since 1983. And we have learned from experience that bursts of integration and learning can happen when you least expect it. The trick is to just keep putting one foot after the other. Keep showing up for yourself. Rest when you need to - it can be exhausting at times. Then, when you can, take another small step.

Having a treatment and support team guiding you along can make all the difference. Friend and family support can too. Podcasts, books, and music can inspire you. Being out in nature can help you heal.

Be patient with yourself and kind. You’ll get there.

10/09/2025

To all professionals, graduate students, and lived experience experts - the Academy for Eating Disorders is now accepting abstract submissions for workshops and papers for their 2026 International Conference on Eating Disorders (ICED) taking place in June 2026 in The Hague, Netherlands.
Information on how to submit in the link below!

09/09/2025

CED's own Board President and founder of our Bodywise Program for BED, Amy Pershing, LMSW will be leading this training on 10/10 addressing trauma informed treatment for the treatment of people dealing with chronic overeating and BED.
Amy is a pioneer in the identification and treatment of BED - do not miss this excellent training seminar! Register through the link below!

Trauma creates fertile ground for issues with food.

06/28/2025

Sign up today for our next Virtual Yoga for Eating Disorder Recovery session starting Th July 17, 6:30 - 7:30pm (meets weekly for 4 sessions total). Developed and lead by CED’s clinical team member, Meret Flessenkaemper, MA, Founder of Meret Yoga LLC, Certified Yoga Instructor, Mindful Movement, and Intuitive Eating Specialist, this group is designed to help participants develop a deeper connection to their bodies and internal process using a gentle, self-accepting approach.

Register by contacting the Center for Eating Disorders at 734-668-8585 or emailing us at info@center4ed.org. Leave a message stating you would like to register for the group along with your name, email and phone number. Meret will get back to you shortly to confirm and to answer any questions you may have. Suggested donation of $10-$20 per session.

The group is for individuals 18 or older and is weight and gender inclusive.