TREATMENT GOALS ARE TO:

• Provide a safe, supportive, and confidential environment
• Identify effective coping skills to confront emotions and stress without relying on food
• Increase self-esteem and ability to care for oneself through personal boundary setting
• Reduce preoccupation with food and break the compulsive cycle of overeating
• Release food from being your enemy or "significant other"
• Confront underlying problems to experience relief and establish lasting change
• Identify and plan new ways to expand your life and explore hopes and dreams

 TREATMENT CONTENT:

• Getting started; new guideline for eating
• Discovering the function of your disordered eating
• Untwisting distorted thinking
• Self-care and support system
• Anger, boundaries, and spiritual nourishment
• Healthy bodies, “size wise”
• Acceptance of self and body
• Addressing underlying issues from earlier in life
• Breaking the disordered eating cycle
• Understanding the stages of recovery

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