Life With Versus Without the Eating Disorder Free Handout

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The Eating Disorder Center provides therapy for eating disorders and body image in Rockville, Maryland serving Bethesda, Potomac, Gaithersburg, and Olney - and virtually throughout Maryland. We also offer eating disorder therapy in Arlington, Virginia and throughout the state of Virginia, as well as in Washington, D.C. 

Our therapists are not traditional “smile and nod therapists.”  They are action oriented and help clients use evidence based tools and strategies to decrease eating disorder thoughts and behaviors.  The Eating Disorder Center uses effective modalities including CBT, DBT, and ACT to help clients find freedom from eating disorders and body image struggles.  The clinicians on our team also use creative interventions, such as providing clients with handouts to explore and promote eating disorder recovery.  This handout is an example of a tool that our clinicians will use with clients in sessions or as an assignment for in between sessions.

In recovery from an eating disorder, it can be helpful to think about your life with an eating disorder versus without an eating disorder. Consider the impacts on your mood, your support system, and your quality of life.  Oftentimes, people struggling with eating disorders report more mood changes, irritability, isolation from friends and loved ones, and a decrease in ability to focus on tasks such as work and school.

You can use this handout to explore the differences of your life with versus without an eating disorder.  The instructions of this handout are to fill in the top box with colors, words, symbols, etc., with what your life would be like in your eating disorder and the bottom box with what your life would be like without your eating disorder.

Then, take some time to reflect on this difference.  It may also be helpful to bring this handout to a therapy or coaching session to further process it.  You may develop further insights into the benefits of eating disorder recovery and can discuss with your therapist or coach ways and strategies to work towards recovery and sustain a more fulfilling and well-rounded life.

We provide eating disorder therapy in Rockville, Maryland, and virtually throughout Maryland for children, teens, and adults struggling with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, OSFED, ARFID, orthorexia, and compulsive exercise. We also have therapists who specialize in eating disorders co-occurring with trauma, OCD, and mood disorders.​

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The Eating Disorder Center is a premier outpatient eating disorder therapy center founded by Jennifer Rollin. We specialize in helping children, teens, and adults struggling with anorexia, binge eating disorder, bulimia, OSFED, and body image issues. We provide eating disorder therapy in Rockville, MD, easily accessible to individuals in Potomac, North Potomac, Bethesda, Olney, Silver Spring, Germantown, and Washington, D.C. We also provide eating disorder therapy in Arlington, Virginia and virtually throughout Virginia. Additionally, we offer eating disorder therapy virtually in New York (NYC), Florida, Pennsylvania, and California. We provide eating disorder and EMDR trauma therapy in Rockville, Maryland and virtually throughout Maryland and Virginia. We provide eating disorder recovery coaching via Zoom to people worldwide. Connect with us through our website at www.theeatingdisordercenter.com