While sitting at a Vietnamese restaurant with a steaming hot bowl of bún bò huế for lunch, guest contributor Minh-Hai Alex, MS, RDN, RYT, shares the memories, joys, and fears she sees while looking at the food before her. By sharing what she sees when she looks at her plate, Minh-Hai invites readers to connect with food through story and comfort, memory and appreciation—an uplifting perspective that all can benefit from.

Guest contributor Lora McCandless struggled with an eating disorder for many years, often feeling alone and unseen. Here, Lora shares how hearing the words “Be Kind to Yourself” for the first time set her on a journey to learning how to practice self-kindness in her recovery and in her life today as a mother, wife, and human.

In this month’s blog series on yoga therapy and inclusive eating disorder recovery, Niya Bajaj investigates the impact of systemic exclusion on eating disorder recovery. She educates about how we can apply the niyama of tapas (TAH-pahs) to make systems more inclusive. Niya offers practical suggestions for how researchers, care providers, and individuals seeking care can practice tapas to build systems that are more inclusive.

Writer and yoga teacher Ashley Paige explains how the fifth chakra, also know as the throat chakra, relates to eating disorder recovery. Learn some practices to help heal this energy center so that you can be authentic in your words, and actions and feel empowered to communicate openly.

Writer and yoga teacher Ashley Paige explains how the fourth chakra relates to eating disorder recovery. Learn why taking steps to practice self-respect and self-love are cornerstones to healing our relationship with food and our body.

In this month’s blog series on yoga therapy and inclusive eating disorder recovery, Niya Bajaj sheds light on how food insecurity is associated with all forms of eating disorders and can have negative impacts on recovery. She shares why the practice of satya, or truthfulness, helps us better recognize and address this reality and includes practical suggestions to create true inclusion for all by including systematically excluded populations in the eating disorder community.

Writer and yoga teacher Ashley Paige explains how the third chakra relates to eating disorder recovery. Learn why exploring your strengths, values, and sense of purpose are important for both recovery and this chakra.

Learn about the yoga philosophy known as the kleshas, or psychological blocks. The kleshas can be a helpful lens through which to understand how eating disorder thoughts and behaviors create blocks in our lives. As Ashley Paige shares in this blog post, once we understand the block, we can learn to make new choices that will lessen its intensity and eventually remove it.

Guest contributor Liz Dehler shares how the Buddhist teaching of impermanence can be a tool in eating disorder recovery that helps us shape a new relationship with our experiences and the world around us. Liz provides some practical ways to begin embracing impermanence in your daily life and a short meditation to practice also.