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🍽️ Comfort food may bring temporary relief, but lasting emotional wellness comes from healthy coping skills and self-awareness.

If you find yourself turning to food during times of stress, anxiety, loneliness, or overwhelm, you're not alone. Emotional eating is a common response to difficult emotions, and there are practical ways to regain balance without guilt or shame.

Our latest article, Emotional Eating: 10 Tips To Help, shares simple strategies to help you recognize emotional eating triggers, build healthier habits, manage stress, and strengthen your emotional well-being one step at a time.

If you're ready to break free from emotional eating and create a healthier relationship with food, this article is a great place to start.

📖 Read more here: https://reachoutrecovery.com/emotional-eating-10-tips-to-help/

There are moments in this journey when you just need to know you are not the only one.

The F.E.A.S.T. blog was built for those moments. It's a growing library of perspectives, insights, and honest reflections from caregivers, clinicians, and advocates who have been in the thick of it. Whether you are newly navigating an eating disorder diagnosis or years into the journey, there is something here for you.

No sign-up required. No cost. Just real voices, real experiences, and real guidance you can come back to whenever you need it.

📖 Explore the blog at feast-ed.org/blog

Have you visited the F.E.A.S.T. blog before? Let us know in the comments. 💛

One of the hardest parts of toxic relationships is that they rarely lower our standards overnight.

It usually happens slowly.

Through criticism.
Through inconsistency.
Through emotional manipulation.
Through repeatedly being made to feel “too sensitive,” “too emotional,” or “too much.”

Over time, many people begin adjusting to behavior they once would have recognized as unhealthy.

They start:
• apologizing for having needs
• walking on eggshells
• accepting less emotional safety
• doubting their own intuition
• feeling grateful for bare minimum effort

This is one reason healing after emotional abuse can feel so confusing.

Many survivors are not “choosing less” because they lack strength. Often, their nervous system has adapted to chronic stress, unpredictability, invalidation, or trauma bonding.

Healing often involves rebuilding:
✨ self-trust
✨ boundaries
✨ emotional safety
✨ self-worth
✨ the belief that healthy love should not require abandoning yourself

If this resonates with you, you are not alone.

I wrote more about this here: https://nutritionandtherapy.com/blog/why-toxic-relationships-slowly-lower-our-standards/

Why Toxic Relationships Slowly Lower Our Standards - New Hope Counseling and Wellness Center Healing from abusive or toxic relationships often involves relearning what healthy love really looks like. Learn the path to recovery here.

Hormones don’t just affect mood—they can change how ADHD shows up throughout a woman’s life.
Psychiatrist Dara Abraham, DO, explains how puberty, menstrual cycles, perimenopause, and menopause can influence focus, energy, mood, and even medication response. If ADHD symptoms seem to shift over time, hormones may be part of the reason.

🎧 Listen now: https://CHADD.org/.../podcast-video-review-how-hormones.../

Hormones don’t just affect mood—they can change how ADHD shows up throughout a woman’s life.

Psychiatrist Dara Abraham, DO, explains how puberty, menstrual cycles, perimenopause, and menopause can influence focus, energy, mood, and even medication response. If ADHD symptoms seem to shift over time, hormones may be part of the reason.

🎧 Listen now: https://CHADD.org/adhd-news/adhd-news-adults/podcast-video-review-how-hormones-affect-adhd-in-women/

If you have trauma and you feel disconnected from yourself or others, you're not alone. We are here to provide hope and be on your team toward recovery. A holistic embodied approach to feeling connected, mind, body and soul.

Why Your Mind and Body Feel Disconnected After Trauma | Cincinnati | Therapy Cincinnati Feeling disconnected after trauma? Learn why your mind, body, and emotions feel split—and how EMDR therapy in Cincinnati can bring them back together.

Did you know we offer help, resources, and treatment for maternal mental health? Amy is a PMH-C or a certified Perinatal Mental Health Specialist. Contact us for more info!

State Fact Sheets — Maternal Mental Health Leadership Alliance: MMHLA State Fact SheetsOur State Fact Sheets include data and information about maternal mental health and related programs and policies, and other state policies and programs that impact maternal health. Information is arranged in easy-to-read tables with sources and links to external websites and/or pu...