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Healing Paths: Fusing Yoga and Therapy for Comprehensive Eating Disorder Recovery

Meet guest contributor Stacy J. Bryant, who shares how, through her gift of writing, realized she was struggling with disordered eating. Read how she is meeting herself where she is each day through yoga and therapy to heal the shame that lived beneath the eating disorder behaviors and thoughts for so long. Stacy’s writing is beautiful, and you will be moved!

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Mapping the Body: A Story of Scoliosis, Body Image, and Yoga

Guest contributor Sarah Webb shares how living with scoliosis affected her body image, causing her to feel trapped in a broken body. Sarah describes the pain she endured as well as the hope that she felt after attending her first yoga class. For Sarah, yoga was the beginning of true healing, offering a path to feeling empowered and whole in her body.

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5 Reasons Adaptive Chair Yoga Is For Everyone

There are many barriers that keep people from trying yoga. Some relate to health, physical challenges, and body image challenges. If you are new to yoga or looking to explore ways experience the practice, guest contributor Mary Higgs shares how Adaptive Chair Yoga not only breaks down barriers to yoga by making it more accessible, but it also focuses on the mind-body connection by encouraging practitioners to trust and listen to their bodies.

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“You Look Healthy:” Why These Words Can Be So Hard to Hear

For so many of us in recovery, being “healthy” creates quite a conundrum. Although we commit to health and desire the benefits that come from being healthy, it can be painfully difficult to hear the words: “You look healthy.” Here I open up about the trouble I had with this word, and how I eventually learned to expand my definition of healthy from one rooted in eating disorder thinking to one that aligns with recovery values.

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My Body is My Home: How Yoga Helped Me to Journey Inward

Meet guest contributor Evie Rose, who shares about making the brave, hard choice to leave university to seek help for an eating disorder and addiction. Evie describes how she’s integrated yoga into her recovery journey, and the many ways the practice has helped her feel again and move her body with intention and compassion. If you could use a little hope today that recovery is possible, give Evie’s post a read.

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Systemic Shame: Exploring How Exclusion Impacts Eating Disorder Recovery

In her latest blog post, Niya Bajaj explores how the experiences of individuals who do not fit in the “skinny, white, affluent, girl” (SWAG) stereotype impacts if and how they seek help for eating disorders. Educating on the yoga practice of Satya, Niya identifies how yoga therapy can support inclusive recovery and guide individuals to reconnect with aspects of their identity and cultural practices to support their recovery.

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How Yoga Helped Me Heal

Guest contributor Caroline Young, MS, RD, LD, RYT, shares her story of yoga and eating disorder recovery. From watching her mother practice yoga as a child to taking classes in college, Caroline describes how this practice helped her find lasting connection with her body and emotions.

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