Emily Formea 3 days ago The First Blog to Read <3 Em I’m not even sure where to begin… let’s start with … Hi! I’m Emily! I’m a young 20-something living in Boston and trying to find myself… ...
Emily Formea Sep 23 Why does everyone seem to struggle with food? (Eating Disorder Awareness) MAJOR disclaimer: I am not suggesting that every single soul on this Earth struggles with food! That’s not my intention whatsoever in wri...
Emily Formea Sep 9 Healing for Your Worth: Eating Disorder Recovery (Guest Blog by Miranda Snyder) I sickeningly treasured my initial diagnosis of anorexia as a unique, personal detail for seven years. My first outpatient recovery stint...
Emily Formea Aug 26 How to Protect Your Recovery from Other People (Eating Disorder Recovery) I think recovery is a two-part process: recovering yourself and then recovering those around you. & what I mean by the second part of the...
Emily Formea Aug 12 What a Stack of Pancakes Taught me about my Eating Disorder When I was 12 years old, I developed an eating disorder. I went from being the girl who freely ate Fritos with her friends to counting ev...
Emily Formea Jul 15 The Story Behind Your Eating Disorder & How to Truly Recover from it Our brains love stories. They run off narratives, plot lines, characters, and background information (history). We live our lives remembe...
Emily Formea Jul 8 How to Trust Yourself with Food Again (Eating Disorder Recovery) I remember when I struggled with food that there was also this underlying tension between myself and well me. I would go to a buffet and ...
Emily Formea Jun 24 My #1 Tip when it comes to Self-Confidence I was talking to my friend the other day about the voice in our heads. You know her, the one that says, “You could NEVER wear that,” or, ...
Emily Formea Jun 11 Eating Disorder Recovery: Dealing with Friends & Family & Food I remember the #1 contributing factor to me and my eating disorder: the fear of other opinions. The fear of what other people would think...
Emily Formea May 28 How to Deal with Emotions during Recovery (Eating Disorder & Mental Health Support) When I was going through my eating disorder recovery, I had heard about the opposite action theory. Opposite action is when you do the op...
Emily Formea May 13 Eating Disorder Recovery: How to Release Control, Perfection, and Routine I can honestly say that any eating disorder has a root cause: control. I think it’s much easier to see the ‘control’ when it comes to wom...
Emily Formea May 6 The Truth About Self-Love & Self-Confidence “The truest form of self-love is loving the things about yourself you’ve spent a lifetime trying to change.” -Me My freshman year of coll...
Emily Formea Apr 23 Let's Talk About Binge Eating: What it is and what to do about it? All eating disorders are not as different from one another as I always believed that they were. I always thought that orthorexia, which i...
Emily Formea Apr 15 Anxiety & Eating Disorders (COVID-19) I remember being told that anxiety and eating disorders were linked. I remember thinking, “I for sure have anxiety!” But, what I don’t re...
Emily Formea Apr 9 Eating Disorder Recovery During Stressful Times (COVID-19) Your eating disorder THRIVES off of stress. When do you feel most likely to restrict? When do you feel most likely to binge? When do you ...
Emily Formea Apr 1 How to Shift Your Energy UP the Emotional Ladder (Dealing with Negative Emotions) I don’t know if you know this, but I’m a pretty positive gal sometimes to a fault, I might add. I’m the first person to try to look at th...
Emily Formea Mar 25 My 2020 Takeaways So Far- My Resolutions Update Life has its ups and downs. Done. Just kidding;) But, honestly, these past few months have been CRAZY! January brought with it some serio...
Emily Formea Mar 20 How to Focus on Nourishment & Leave Your Diet Brain Behind Diets. They can really mess our noggins up. I remember the first time I ever went on a diet. I was in the seventh grade and my doctor tol...
Emily Formea Mar 11 Eating Disorder Recovery-The Internet & Intuitive Eating I remember seeing the word ‘intuitive’ on Instagram. I was deep in my eating disorder and had the impression, like probably most of you d...
Emily Formea Mar 4 Eating Disorder Autopilot: How to get off the plane! I think when it comes to me and my eating disorder, there’s a key characteristic I never really understood: my subconscious. I never real...
Emily Formea Feb 19 The Power of Your Mind & Identity The redundancy of your life is your subconscious program. Let me explain:) My eating disorder had become my new ‘normal.’ My autopilot, s...
Emily Formea Feb 11 My Eating Disorder Recovery-How Gaining Weight Gained me a Life! I wanted to be so small. Like “magazine cover” small. I wanted to fit into the smallest sizes and places. I wanted to shrink down and tak...
Emily Formea Feb 5 Food Freedom Recovery & Health Consciousness I get asked a lot by clients, women online, and by my own inner voice pretty much every day, “How do I balance my eating disorder recover...
Emily Formea Jan 29 Food Restriction: Seeking Validation Through Food This was one of the hardest blog posts for me to right and also one of the toughest lessons I had to learn when facing my own eating diso...
