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Why Therapy Hasn’t Worked for You (Yet)
If you’ve been in therapy for years… If you’ve talked about your childhood. Processed your trauma. Cried about your body. Understood your patterns. Journaled about control. Analyzed your perfectionism. And you are still stuck in your eating disorder… I want you to hear this clearly: It might not be you. It might be the wrong approach. The Old Protocol Problem Most traditional eating disorder treatment still follows an old structure: Weight restoration Monitor behaviors Explor
Danie van Kay
4 min read


“I want to recover, but I don’t want to gain weight.”
No shit. No one does. That’s the thing. This sentence is often treated like a contradiction; something you’re supposed to resolve before you’re allowed to move forward. But it isn’t a moral problem or a mindset issue. It’s the sound of a brain and nervous system responding to prolonged threat. And we all experience it, even when we logically know we're suppressing our natural body weight. When restriction continues over time, the brain does not simply register “less food.” I
Danie van Kay
4 min read


The Power of Eating-Induced Hunger: Why You Don’t Feel Hungry Until You Start Eating
What Is Eating-Induced Hunger? Eating-induced hunger refers to a biological reaction where hunger signals arise only after starting to eat. This is often seen in individuals recovering from restriction, dieting, or eating disorders, and it is not a psychological failure but rather a physiological adaptation to starvation. Many of us are familiar with the sensation of not feeling hungry, eating because it's necessary, and then suddenly feeling unable to stop and out of control
Danie van Kay
3 min read
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