DR MARIANNE MILLER
CARING EATING DISORDER TREATMENT IN SAN DIEGO AND THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA, TEXAS, AND WASHINGTON D.C. FOR ADULTS & TEENS
How Spirituality (however you define it) Can Help Binge Eating Disorder Recovery
Since I was a little girl, spirituality has always been a big part of my life. It has morphed and evolved over the years. I’ve grown and changed and learned how some of my former spiritual beliefs were oppressive and repressive to living my authentic self. Now that I’ve learned how to open up myself to a broader view of spirituality and let go of the elitism and limitations of some spiritual views, I’ve moved into a larger world of spiritual change and growth, which has both empowered and grounded me. Living in San Diego, California helped my eating disorder recovery because not only did I find an eating disorder therapist who really knew her stuff, I also felt connected spiritually to the ocean and to nature around me. Walking on the beach in California soothes my soul. Cultivating my spiritual self in San Diego accelerated my eating disorder recovery. Wherever you live, whether it be in Denver, Chicago, Atlanta, NYC, or London, you can recover from binge eating disorder completely by tapping into spirituality, however you define it.
A Mini-Guide to Practicing Self-Love in Binge Eating Treatment and Recovery
My word of the year is love. Yes, yes I got this idea from Lizzo’s album Special and from Sonya Renee Taylor’s book, The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love. After listening to the album hundreds of times and reading the book over and over again as I treated eating disorders in San Diego and coached recovering from binge eating in cities like London, Chicago, Atlanta, and New York, I figured it out. I linked the power of self-love to the binge eating recovery process. In order to help yourself recover from binge eating, You have to learn to love yourself. It may sound hard. It may even feel impossible. I’m here to give you hope that self-love is not only possible, it’s inevitable when you get the right binge eating help.
Holiday Activities in Chicago to Help Your Binge Eating Recovery
I love Chicago. I’ve visited many times, for work, for play, and for SHOPPING (magnificent mile, anyone?). People were so friendly that I have to remind myself that I’m in a big city. Plus, being right there by Lake Michigan? The blend of nature and city excitement was a win for me! Any sort of distraction serves as self care when you’re struggling with binge eating disorder. If you live in Chicago, or you’re visiting there for the holiday season, I encourage you to do some awesome self-care and check out the following places. It’ll help you feel connected with others and with this magical time of year. It will benefit your binge eating recovery. I include takeaway tips to help you practice coping skills while you’re there.
A Deep Dive into Dissociation and Binge Eating with Dr. Danielle Hiestand
I’m so excited for you to hear from San Diego trauma and eating disorder specialist, Dr. Danielle Hiestand, LMFT, CEDS on the topic of dissociation and binge eating. Danielle was actually a former doctoral student of mine from long ago, and she did amazing research on eating disorders. She has since become one of the top eating disorder therapists in San Diego, known especially for how she integrates eating disorder treatment and trauma therapy. Plus, she’s going to be a guest speaker for my Summer 2022 Freedom From Binge Eating class! Winning!
Overcoming Binge Eating with Eating Disorder Dietitian Kathleen Meehan, MS, RD
You’ve probably noticed that I’m talking about binge eating a lot lately. One reason is because I see so many people suffering from binge eating in my San Diego practice. Binge eating disorder (BED) is when you have uncontrollable urges to eat typically large amounts of food in a short amount of time. Often disassociation and a sense of detachment occurs during the binge. Afterword, you feel overwhelmed with shame and self-loathing. You promise yourself you’ll never do it again, and then you do. It’s such a difficult way to live. Binge eating has nothing to do with willpower, and it isn’t a moral issue. Binge eating disorder is a brain disorder, and you can get treatment for it so you can live a free and fulfilling life.
How My Freedom from Binge Eating Class Can Help You Redefine Your Relationship with Food and with Your Body
You struggle with binge eating or emotional eating in San Diego or elsewhere. You eat “right” during the day, and then as soon as you get home (or as soon as you put the kids to bed), you head to the refrigerator and the pantry to begin eating. At first you feel relief—like you’ve been holding your breath all day and can finally let it out and gulp in fresh, clean air. Then the numbness or detachment settles over you. It is a welcome respite from the pent-up stress, frustration, and anger. You don’t end the binge until you feel really, really uncomfortable—then the shame seeps in. You can’t believe you did it again. You had promised yourself that you would never binge again—that you would follow your diet or meal plan perfectly and give up binging once and for all. Yet here you are, feeling nauseous, extremely uncomfortable, and hopeless.
Battling Binge Eating? Amy Ornelas, RD on How Eating Disorder Dietitians Can Help
Grappling with binge eating in San Diego is so freaking hard. It consumes your waking thoughts and hijacks your brain. All you want to do is enjoy your life and see the amazing sights in San Diego and elsewhere, but you just can’t seem to turn off the obsessive thoughts, the constant urges, and the shame—and there can be so much shame. I have worked many years with San Diego eating disorder dietitian Amy Ornelas, RD. She is SO GIFTED at what she does—it’s like magic how she helps people recover from binge eating. Check out her approach to binge eating in this interview!
Binge eating? Three Questions to Ask Yourself from a Binge Eating Therapist.
Struggling with binge eating? Having more urges to binge since COVID hit? Or, has it always been there, lurking in the background, ready to pounce when you’re feeling especially tired, stressed, or overwhelmed. It’s so hard to deal with binge eating in San Diego and elsewhere. Regardless of whether you meet the criteria for binge eating disorder or just grapple with binge eating every once in a while, it really sucks. Sure, there may be initial relief and numbing out from stress, but after a while discomfort, guilt, and shame can set in, which is so challenging. To help you figure out what to do if you struggle with binge eating, I’ve outlined three questions to ask yourself to get you on your way.
Emotional Eating, Guilt, and How Grieving Can Help
Have you been feeling tired? Not just the tired that prompts you to go to bed early or take a nap (although you likely have been feeling that too), but the bone-deep fatigue that makes you wonder how you’re going to get through your day? I’ve also been feeling that tired.
This coronavirus situation, the one that many thought was going to be over in a couple of weeks, is dragging out longer and longer, and in many ways the end doesn’t seem in sight. Returning to normal in San Diego and elsewhere isn’t even on the radar anymore—it’ll be a new normal, one that we don’t know what will look like.