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Bon Anniversaire INDD!
May 6, 2008 in Adolescent Eating Behaviors, anorexia, Anorexia Nervosa, Anti- Diet Campaign, Behavioral Health, Behavioral Strategies and Eating Disorders, Blogs, Body Acceptance, Books, Bulimia, Bulimia Nervosa, Carer Support, Cheri Erdman EdD, COE (Compulsive Over-Eating), Cognitive Processing and Effects of Dieting, Community Health Education, Constructs of Pyschological Distress, Culture, Diet Breaking, Dieting Behaviors, Dieting Industry, Disordered Eating Behaviors, Eating Disorder Advocacy, Eating Disorder News, Eating Disorder Recovery, Eating Disorder Research, Eating Disorders, Eating Disorders and Mental Health, ED advocacy, ED Hope & Recovery, ED's and the Media, EDNOS, Empowered Families, Empowered Parents, Engaged Families, Environmental factores influencing ED's, Evidence Based Treatment for Eating Disorders, Evidence-Based Medicine, Family & Culture, Family Based Therapy, Fat Acceptance, Genetic Analysis and Eating Disorders, Genetic and Environmental causes of ED's, Health, Health & Wellbeing, Imprinting and Addictive Processes, INDD, International No Diet Day, Karen Stimson, Largesse, Love Your Body, Mary Evans Young, Mind & Body, Parent Activism and Eating Disorders, Parent Advocates, Parent Support, Personal, Personal Narratives, Public Health, Public Health and Nutrition, Raj Patel, Self-Care, Size Accpetance, Size Esteem, Society and Weight Related Issues, Socio-Cultural Factors and Advertising to Promote ED's, Stuffed and Starved, Thoughts | Tags: "No Diets", anorexia, Anti- Diet Campaign, Body Acceptance, Books, Cheri Erdman EdD, cognitive processing and Eating Disorders, Cognitive Processing and Effects of Dieting, Community Health Education, Constructs of Pychological Stress, Diet Addiction & Society, Diet Breaking, Dieting Behaviors, Eating Disorder Recovery/Support, Eating Disordered Behaviors, Eating Disorders, Empowered Parents, environmental factors influencing ED's, Evidence-Based Medicine, Fat Acceptance, Genetics and Body Composition, Health, INDD, International No Diet Day 2008, Karen Stimson, Largesse, Life, Love Your Body, Marketing and Diets, Mary Evans Young, Media and Promotion of Dieting, Parent Activism and Eating Disorders, Parent Adovcates and ED's, Parents Against Diets, Public Health and Nutrition, Public Health News and Information, Raj Patel, Recovery, Self-Care, Self-Esteem and Dieting Behaviors, Size Acceptance, Size Esteem, Society and Weight Related Issues, Socio-Cultural Factors and Dieting Behavior, Stuffed and Starved, The Network For Size Esteem, Thoughts, Weight-Loss Industry | 2 comments
I love how the birth of International No Diet Day began “from a picnic in Mary’s living room” in the early ’90’s and fertilized it’s magnitude world-wide. Ms Evans-Young is herself a recovered anorexic and wrote the book Diet Breaking: Having it all Without Having to Diet and it couldn’t be a better time than now to let the message sink in– deep and with reflection.
Largesse gives the background on the term: size esteem which was initially coined by Richard Stimson, husband to a contributing director/writer at the site, Karen Stimson who explains it perfectly:
– Feeling acceptance of, respect for, and pride in one’s body, whatever its size or shape –
But I like this analogy even more highlighted by Cheri Erdman EdD who wrote the book Live Large! and thought about it as a simple yet poignant equation: Size Acceptance + Self Esteem = SIZE ESTEEM
Either way you think about it, the insanity of dieting, wanting to force our bodies to be a size/shape it was not genetically determined to be– and thankfully so for the beautiful variety of shapes, sizes, colors, we all add to the collage of life, is quite dubious.
It’s even further magnified when you or a loved one suffer from an eating disorder and are trying to regain your health and follow through with recovery and maintaining wellness in a seemingly endless fat-phobic, diet-crazed, fashion-consumed environment. Our daughter at times can take on this incessant self-doubt and accusational inquiries about why she has to eat what she has to when others, her classmates, etc. eat less than she does and are constantly discussing “fat” laden topics— it’s enough to make anyone go a little bonkers. Advertisers, marketing, the health ins field, even health care (hey, let’s face it– those mega-million dollar hospitals that now look more like shopping malls want to treat the ill business) and the all time winner: the diet industry.
Stuffed and Starved is a title from researcher Raj Patel more about food prices, the global-glut, etc. but I had to think about this a little bit more this morning how it really ties into so many other layers of Life– and will be worth dissecting and playing off the similar as well as dissimilar dualities we can only pretend don’t exist, or just think is someone else’s “problem” to fix, get over, medicate– like the cliched remark I’ve heard countless times since our daughter was diagnosed with anorexia- “why doesn’t she just eat?!”, then the instant turn against parents when our children don’t eat = it’s your fault, you did something “wrong”, etc.
Yes, INDD is a day we find relative and meaningful in our family. And with the weather reaching low 70’s, sun shining– I think a picnic is just what we’ll do to celebrate this day!
-shanti
:Prayer to the Bodhisattva:
March 19, 2008 in Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa, Adolescent Eating Behaviors, anorexia, Anorexia Nervosa, Artistic Therapy and Healing, Behaviora Strategies, Behavioral Health, Books, Carer Support, Disordered Eating Behaviors, Eating Disorder Advocacy, Eating Disorders, Eating Disorders and Mental Health, ED advocacy, ED Hope & Recovery, ED recovery, Emotional Healing, Emotional Journeys, Empowered Families, Empowered Parents, Engaged Families, Erase Stigma of Anorexia, family, Family Education/Resources, Family supported ED treatment, Healing Through Meditation, Health, Health & Wellbeing, Hope & Recovery for ED's, Improvement of Psychological and Behavioral Treatments, Life, Literary Genres, Parent Activism and Eating Disorders, Parent Advocates, Parent Support, Parent/Family Support and Eating Disorders, Personal, Personal Narratives, Personal Stories, Poetry, Poetry/Literature, Rabindranath Tagore, Self-Care, Spirituality, Sutras, Symbolic Imagery, Thoughts, visual Koans, Writing & Healing, Zen calligraphy, Zen Koans | Tags: Adolescent Eating Disorders, anorexia, Anorexia Nervosa, Behavioral Health, Bengali Poets, Buddhism, Carer Support and Eating Disorders, Eating Disorder Hope & Recovery, Eating Disorders and Recovery, Emotional Healing, Emotional Journey, Empowered Parents and Eating Disorder Recovery, Engaged Families and Eating Disorder Treatment/Recovery, family, Family Empowerment and ED, Family Resources for ED Treatment, Healing and Eating Disorders, Healing Through Meditation, Heath and Recovery, Life, Literary Genres, Literature, Parent Activism and Eating Disorders, Parent Advocates, Parent Support, Personal, Personal Narratives, Poetry & Healing, Rabindranath Tagore, Self-Care, Sutras, Thoughts, Upanishads, visual Koans, Zen calligraphy | Leave a comment
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain
but for the heart to conquer it.
Let me not look for allies in life’s battlefield
but to be my own strength.
Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved
but hope for patience to own my freedom.
-Rabindranath Tagore
-Sarvamangalam!
: Eclipse Solaire :
February 21, 2008 in anorexia, Anorexia Nervosa, anthologies, Behavioral Health, Body Acceptance, Body Image & Writing, Books, Bulimia, Bulimia Nervosa, Carer Support, COE (Compulsive Over-Eating), Community Health Education, Disordered Eating Behaviors, Dr Anita Johnston, Eating by the Light of the Moon, Eating Disorder Advocacy, Eating Disorder Treatment, Eating Disorders, Eating Patterns and Weight Related Issues, ED advocacy, ED Hope & Recovery, Empowered Families, Empowered Parents, family, Family Education/Resources, Health, Health Care, Improvement of Psychological and Behavioral Treatments, Lunar Eclipse, Mental Health, Mythology and Healing, Parent Advocates, Personal Empowerment, Personal Narratives, Phases of the Moon, Psychology & Counseling, Psychology and Myth, Public Health and Nutrition, Relationships, Self-Care, Self-Help Narratives, Stories that Heal, Women & Writing, Women and ED, women/psychology, Writing & Healing | Tags: anorexia, Anorexia Nervosa, Behavioral Health, Body Acceptance, Books, Bulimia, Bulimia Nerovsa, Carer Support, Dr Anita Johnston, Earth Cycles, Eating by the Light of the Moon, Eating Disorders, Eating Patterns and Weight Related Issues, ED advocacy, ED Awareness, Empowered Parents, family, Family Support for Eating Disorders, Food, Health & Wellbeing, Life, Lunar Eclipse, Mental Health, Mindful Eating, Mythology for Healing, Nutrition, Phases of the Moon, Psychology & Counseling, Psychology and Myth, Recovery, Self-Acceptance, self-awareness, Self-Care, Self-Healing, self-help, Stories that Heal, Support for Eating Disorders, Writing&Healing | 2 comments
I find Eating By The Light Of The Moon to be a fitting thought for the day…
Your body is precious.
It is your vehicle for awakening,
treat it with care.
-BUDDHA
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