The Beyond Blog

Hear from Beyond's eating disorder therapists and eating disorder dietitians about relevant topics related to eating disorders, diet-culture, feeding children, and mental health topis!

Mar 56 min read

Traveling While Fat: Tips From a Fat Eating Disorder Therapist

Author: Kait Vanderlaan, LCSW Traveling to a new place can be such an amazing experience, but it can also be stressful when you live in a...

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Dec 18, 20234 min read

Lessons I Learned from My Toddler: Book Review Edition (holiday gifts or library checkouts!)

While reading to our children allows our littles to be exposed to different words and promotes language development, we also can choose...

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Nov 14, 20233 min read

4 Tips for Hosting an Eating Disorder-Informed Thanksgiving

The holidays can be a very stressful time for people with eating disorders. With more family gatherings centered around food, there are...

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Oct 16, 20234 min read

3 Spooky Myths about Sugar

Sugar is an increasingly hot topic in the nutrition world ever since we all got sick of the depressing low fat era of the 90s. But sugar...

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Sep 27, 20233 min read

Tips for Navigating Intuitive Eating with Food Allergies

Learning to be an anti-diet intuitive eater means relearning listening to our bodies when deciding what and how much to eat. The idea is...

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Jul 27, 20233 min read

Lessons I Learned from My Toddler: Joyful Movement Edition

“When it comes to defining movement, the limit does not exist.” Once again I come to you writing about how my experience parenting my...

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May 2, 20234 min read

Reflections on Diet Culture, Weight Stigma, and COVID-19

As my photo memories of “3 years ago today” pop up on my phone to remind me of the era of banana bread, toilet paper shortages, and Zoom...

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Jan 2, 20232 min read

New year, same you: Celebrating who you are and the body you’re in - today.

It’s that time of year again… the holidays have come and gone, we are dreaming of longer days and warmer weather here in the northeast…...

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