The complication of disordered eating is that food cannot be avoided, unlike the source of other addictive behaviors.
It’s a delicate mental illness that hides on the fringes of a diet-obsessed culture driven to focus on the exterior. Yet experts are finding that shifting exceedingly to psychology—particularly the practice of mindfulness—is altering the success rate of programs.
An examination of in-patient programs and diet programs shows that there’s a pivot to focus on behaviors by lining them up side by side with opportunities to explore emotions. In both cases, mindfulness is getting the credit it deserves by being a force for lasting change….