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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
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“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
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