02/24/2026
Join us for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2026 (Feb 23-Mar 1) to raise awareness, challenge stigma, and share hope with everyone impacted. We have clinicians who specialize in somatic therapy if you need to book a therapy appointment. 🫂
Decolonized therapy for eating disorders moves away from Eurocentric, individualistic, and weight-normative approaches, focusing instead on cultural, systemic, and community-based healing. It seeks to remove the stigma and acknowledges that these conditions can be a survival response to racism, colonization, and systemic trauma.
Here are three ways to destigmatize eating disorders with decolonized therapy:
1. Shift from “Individual Pathology” to “Contextual Survival.”
Decolonized therapy reframes eating disorders not as a personal failure or a purely biological defect, but as a potential act of survival or a coping mechanism against systemic oppression, such as racism, fatphobia, and poverty.
2. Practice Cultural Humility and Nutritional Reclamation.
Decolonized treatment rejects the “one-size-fits-all” approach, particularly in nutrition therapy, which often assumes a Western diet and pathologizes cultural foods.
3. Integrate Community-Centered and Collective Healing.
Instead of focusing only on individual, one-on-one sessions, this approach incorporates family, community, and social networks into the healing process. Building Solidarity: It utilizes support groups tailored for BIPOC individuals or those with shared, marginalized identities to break the isolation often caused by stigma.
For more information, resources like the BEAM (Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective) and Inclusive Therapists offer wonderfully specialized support. ❤️
We offer secure telehealth services across Alabama, Georgia, Texas, and Tennessee, and are based in Nashville, Tennessee!
Here if you need us or have any questions. Your mental health matters! 🥹🌱
