Welcome to EMBODIED RECOVERY for EATING DISORDERS (ERED) – a trauma-informed, relationally oriented, and neurobiologically supported approach to the treatment of eating disorders that weaves modalities and interventions based on the latest research in traumatology, interpersonal neurobiology, and child development.
Drawing on principles from Polyvagal Theory, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy®, Sensory Integration, and Body-Mind Centering®, EMBODIED RECOVERY for EATING DISORDERS offers training, consultation, and program development for physical and mental health professionals.
The Body Is Not the Problem.
It is the Answer.
Eating disorders are complex, multi-layered and pernicious. Many current evidenced-based best practice treatments have limited long-term outcomes. The body, the very stage where the war is waged, is often the missing link to effective treatment for eating disorders.
4 FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLES of EMBODIED RECOVERY
for EATING DISORDERS (ERED)
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SOMATO-Psycho-Social
Eating disorders and recovery are impacted by “bottom-up” processing. To fully understand what drives eating disorders behaviors and thoughts, we must expand our relationship with the body to include consideration a multitude of life experiences which shape neurobiological development and regulation.
2
Recovery = Embodiment
Recovery is an additive process which increases embodiment of the attachment, defense and sensory processing systems, not the result of decreasing or eliminating eating disorders behaviors or symptoms.
3
ED is the body speaking
Eating disorder behaviors are the way that the body speaks about human experiences of survival, attachment and making sense of self and the world. By learning how to speak the body’s languages of 5-sense perception, sensation and movement, we can de-code the messages that eating disorders behaviors and thoughts are trying to communicate about the state of regulation and embodiment of the attachment, defense and sensory processing systems.
4
The Body as a Resource
The body is a resource, not an obstacle, in the recovery process and often needs to be resourced directly through a wide variety of body-based interventions before it can effectively metabolize food.
Available Podcasts
Listen to conversations about ERED and the advances in the field of eating disorders treatment.