GENERAL:
Coping with the Holidays
Eating Disorders and Holidays
Surviving the Holidays with an Eating Disorder [1] [2, PDF] [3] [4]
Twelve Ideas For Negotiating the Holidays
Challenges During the Holidays
“The best way to get through the holidays with an eating disorder is to truly look for those people who provide you with the support you need, those who bring joy to your face, whether family, friends, or even fellow peers in recovery, so that with them you are able to find the comfort and freedom outside of your eating disorder struggle.” -Nader Armanios (source)
DIAGNOSIS-SPECIFIC:
Managing BED Symptoms Over the Holidays [1] [2]
Resolve to Challenge Anorexia this Winter
Preparing for Easter in Bulimia Recovery
“Holidays can be challenging. So much food around can be overwhelming. Remember food is not the enemy.. It just feels like it. Relax try to eat intuitively. Enjoy the people you are with. Don’t put too much pressure on yourself.” -Jo Cook (source)
RECOVERY-SPECIFIC:
Managing Recovery During the Holidays [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
6 Ways to Prevent Holiday Relapse
Handling Holidays with Dietary Restrictions
(Please Note: I am from the United States, and this list includes the holidays I celebrate. The same ideas can easily be applied to other celebratory days and events as well.)
HOLIDAY-SPECIFIC:
New Years
5 Recovery Tips
Emergency Tips for New Years
Coping Tips
Resolutions: Good vs. Triggering
Are Your Resolutions Aiding Your Recovery?
New Years and Recovery
Valentine’s Day
How Can You Cope?
Valentine’s Day in Recovery
Easter
Easter Dinner
Independence Day
Declare Independence from Your Eating Disorder
Navigating the 4th of July
Halloween
5 Tips for a Happy Halloween
Staying Safe on Halloween with an ED
Binge Eating and Halloween [1] [2]
Halloween Candy and Mindful Eating
Thanksgiving
Surviving Thanksgiving with an Eating Disorder
Thanksgiving with an ED: 10 Tips
How to Make It Easier
Thanksgiving Tips
Thanksgiving and Eating Disorders
Thanksgiving Do’s and Don’ts
Have a Binge-Free Thanksgiving
Christmas
Survival Guide PDF
Coping with Christmas [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Christmas and Eating Disorders
Christmas Support
Tips for Christmas [1] [2]
The Holidays Can be Scary
H unger means you eat when physically hungry instead of emotionally hungry. A ttitudes about your size has to with the size of your heart instead of the size of your body. P eople accept and value you for who you are, not according to how you look. P roblems are resolved in ways other than stuffing your feelings with food. Y ou spend as much time and energy on helping others, as you do on how you look.
H appiness comes from within rather than from expectations of others. O ccasions for the holidays emphasize relating to others instead of emphasizing food. L ove of self means you deserve to treat yourself in the best humanly possible way. I dentity of self involves more than how you look. D isapproval of self is changed to approval of who you are. A cceptance of what one can not change includes your body features. Y ou treat yourself as you treat your best friend. S ociety values you for being you without emphasis to your weight or size.
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