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Through advocacy work, community and professional events, and media outreach, Veritas is helping to bring cutting-edge research, best-practice care, and scientifically backed information into the national eating disorder conversation. Here in our blog you can learn about the work we and others are doing to advance the understanding and treatment of eating disorders. You’ll also find interesting articles and helpful insights that can support you or a loved one on the journey to lasting recovery.
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Culinary Corner: Banana Bread
The transition back to the family table, social eating, and meal preparation can be a very challengi...
The Impact of Food Insecurity During COVID-19 For Individuals With ARFID
The COVID-19 pandemic has created stress on our internal infrastructure, disrupting our food systems...
Voices of Veritas: The First Step to Recovery is Knowledge—Is it an Eating Disorder or Something Else?
Our 2020 Voices of Veritas series features thought leaders and subject matter experts at Veritas Col...
Compassion: An Ingredient to Eating Disorder Recovery
Elisha Contner Wilkins, MS, LMFT, CEDS-S, Executive Director of Veritas Collaborative’s Child, Ado...
What To Do If Your Loved One Is Struggling With An Eating Disorder During The COVID-19 Pandemic
As we navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and begin to define our “new normal”, it’s important to a...
How to Talk to a Loved One About Their Eating Disorder
Family and friends can play an important role in identifying eating disorder behaviors and symptoms....
Voices of Veritas: Creating a Can Eat Culture
Our 2020 Voices of Veritas series features thought leaders and subject matter experts at Veritas Col...
Maintaining Eating Disorder Recovery During COVID-19
As our world navigates the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, one thing is certain – w...
10 Recovery-Focused Activities
As our day to day life may look different for the next few weeks, we have compiled a list of recover...
Voices of Veritas: Breaking Down Barriers to Care
In our Voices of Veritas series, we highlight the Veritas team members that help fulfill our visio...
Let Me Give It To You Straight
Hi, I’m Dad Versus Eating Disorder and I use a lot of metaphors. I mean, metaphors are great and a...
Maintaining Your Recovery During the Holiday Season
The holiday season is a wonderful and exciting time for families and friends to celebrate together....
Supporting Your Loved One’s Recovery During the Holiday Season
The holiday season is a wonderful and exciting time for families and friends to celebrate together....
Navigating the Doldrums of Eating Disorder Recovery
There are areas of ocean near the equator known as the doldrums. Known for stagnant, humid, and wind...
We Are Brave
A few weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to share my story as a caregiver at the Veritas Collaborativ...
Managing Seasonal Change in Eating Disorder Recovery
Although in many parts of the country it still feels like summer, fall has officially begun! While...
Caregiver Self-Care: Taking Care of You
This is written by the parent of a child with an eating disorder. The author walked with his child t...
A Light in the Darkness – How You Can Play a Role in Suicide Prevention
September is Suicide Prevention Month, and now more than ever, we need to examine how we can each pl...
Eating Disorders and College Students
Kayla* was a 19-year-old sophomore art student who garnered the attention of her professors and was ...
Recovery Isn’t A Straight Line
Recently my daughter has had some setbacks in her recovery. This is normal. Very normal. You’ll he...
Weight Bias in Schools
In the medical field, as well as in life, things are not always either black or white, but rather va...
The First Step to Recovery
It was an evening in January. A school night. I cooked an Italian dish, I can’t remember exactly w...
OCD and Eating Disorders: Untangling the Diagnostic Web
The Veritas Collaborative Symposium on Eating Disorders offers medical, mental, behavioral and other...
Supporting our Service Members & Their Families
Today and every day, we recognize tremendous service, dedication, and sacrifice of those who have se...
Practicing Self-Care During the Summer
The anticipation of summer – the warmer weather, vacations, and possibly changes in routine – ca...
Do The Work
After her diagnosis and once we knew her admission date into residential, my daughter asked one ques...
Voices of Veritas: Emilee Rojas
In our “Voices of Veritas” series, we’re introducing you to some of the world’s most engagin...
How To Be An Ally
While many people believe eating disorders predominately affect teenaged, straight, cisgender female...
Why Eating Disorders Can’t Afford to Wait
June 2 marks World Eating Disorders Action Day, when members of the eating disorder community –...
A Parent’s Perspective on Recovery
Recently there was a discussion in a Facebook group for ED caregivers about what recovery looks like...
Voices of Veritas: Eduardo Polit
In our “Voices of Veritas” series, we’re introducing you to some of the world’s most engagin...
No Diet Day: Balanced Eating For Health
On May 6th, the National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA) Network observes No Diet Day, to encoura...
Cultivating Positive Body Image
Every day, Americans are inundated with approximately 4,000 media messages. Many of the messages tar...
A Focus on Whole-Person Health
This month marks the 70th annual Mental Health Awareness Month, a time when mental health allies nat...
There’s A Lot To Look Forward To This Year At Veritas Collaborative
There’s a lot to look forward to this year at Veritas Collaborative, all of which will bring us th...
Contributing to the Education on Pediatric Eating Disorders for Medical Students
If you’ve ever met Dr. Preeti Matkins, then you know how fortunate we are to have her at the helm ...
Voices of Veritas: Taylor Rae Homesley, LPC
In today’s Voices of Veritas post, we meet Taylor Rae Homesley, associate center director at Verit...
Stress Awareness Month: 9 Ways to Practice Self-Care
In honor of Stress Awareness Month, we are sharing 9 ways to practice self-care in recovery. Self-ca...
Balanced Eating for Health
Nutrition is a hot topic year round, however come January it seems the presence of the newest nutrit...
Voices of Veritas: Leah Graves
Veritas Collaborative is home to some of the world’s most engaging thought leaders, compassionate ...
Make A Resolution To Practice Self-Care
You’ve successfully made it through another holiday season. This may not have been an easy feat, c...
Breaking the Stigma: 7 Truths About Eating Disorders
Despite common misconceptions, eating disorders can affect anyone regardless of gender, age, race, e...
EDs Don’t Take Holidays Off: Ways to Support Your Loved One This Season
While the holidays are a time most people look forward to, they can often magnify personal struggles...
Baby Boomers and Eating Disorders: The Rise of Disordered Eating at Midlife and Beyond
No age or gender is immune to eating disorders. Eating disorders can flare up repeatedly throughout ...
Eating Disorders and the LGBTQ+ Community: A Disproportionate Impact
When the majority of people think about those diagnosed with eating disorders, the stereotype that c...
Treating Patients with Eating Disorders: It Takes a Village
The treatment of eating disorders is one of healthcare’s most complex therapeutic pathways. Helpin...
Voices of Veritas: Dr. Preeti Matkins
Our Voices of Veritas blog series will highlight our staff by sharing their personal and professiona...
The Collaborative Kitchen: Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins
The changing seasons often trigger a myriad of emotions in individuals with eating disorders. These...
Recovery: The Journey to Uninhibited Joy
For persons recovering from an eating disorder, it can feel unsettling and sometimes impossible to s...
The Collaborative Kitchen: Butternut Squash & Sage Lasagna
Normalizing eating behaviors is one of the main goals during eating disorder treatment and recovery,...
A Changing Tide for Males with Eating Disorders
It can be mighty frustrating to be a male with an eating disorder. On top of battling a life-threate...
You’re More Than A Number (Even in College)
Whether you are in recovery from an eating disorder or someone simply entering college for the first...
The Collaborative Kitchen: Soft and Chewy Oatmeal Cookies
With the new year in full swing, we are bombarded with post-holiday diet talk and “new year, new y...
The Collaborative Kitchen: Homemade Guacamole Recipe
Recovering from an eating disorder requires intentional effort, and people often look for guidance o...
A Garden Grows In Durham
As an art therapist, the most rewarding part of my job is witnessing a person reignite their creativ...
Practicing Mindfulness Through Music
As we grow from infancy to adulthood, our preferences, beliefs, and senses of self undergo dramatic ...
Veritas Collaborative Now Offering Nasogastric (NG) Tube Feeding Services
Veritas Collaborative, a Specialty Behavioral Health Hospital for children and adolescents with eati...
Missing School Should Not Prevent Seeking Treatment
For most adolescents, school is the place they spend the most time, energy and attention. It is wher...
The Metaphor of Butterflies
During the summer, the patients at Veritas Collaborative enjoy watching the metamorphosis of caterpi...
Art Therapy: A Visual Record of the Eating Disorder Road to Recovery
A collaborative oil pastel drawing created by a patient & Karen Kuebler during an individual art...
NEDAwareness Week 2013
NEDAwareness Week, the largest education and outreach effort on Eating Disorders in the United State...
Yoga on the Path to Eating Disorder Recovery
Yoga is an ideal component of therapy for individuals with eating disorders. The word yoga, translat...
A Young Person’s Perspective on Eating Disorders
As a young person myself, I have experienced, firsthand, the pressures young people face from the me...
Dr. Holly Rogers Shares New Mindfulness Book with Veritas Collaborative Staff
KORU: the spiral shape of the unfurling fern frond; the natural representation of the balance betwee...
BEDA National Weight Stigma Awareness Week
This week is National Weight Stigma Awareness Week. BEDA, The Binge Eating Disorder Association, h...
A Young Person’s Perspective on Eating Disorders
As a young person myself, I have experienced, firsthand, the pressures young people face from the me...
