Mindfulness for Binge Eating Disorders and other mental distress

by Matt C
(London)

June 15, 2010
I often find myself trawling the internet looking for anything interesting about binge eating and other eating disorders. Whether it’s useful articles, forum entries or blogs; anything to learn more about self help tips, better ideas for therapy, and new developments.

So I thought I would try to remember to blog about anything I find interesting and help spread the word a little bit!

Learning from other peoples experiences is one of the most encouraging ways to find our own way toward recovery (as long as we remember that what might work for one, may not necessarily work for another) and the internet helps us tap into a wealth of experience in ways never previously achievable!

Today, I popped by my favourite site on all things psychological – www.psychcentral.com. There was a new blog entry about Mindfulness, which is an approach to both therapy and self-help which I’m sure many of you have heard all about.

It’s a beautifully intuitive approach, applicable to helping ease any kind of suffering, through using what you could think of as ‘mini-meditations’ throughout your normal daily activities.

I have ofcourse already written about using Mindfulness to help with stress and eating disorders at: http://www.coping-with-binge-eating.com/mindfulness.html which I hope some may find helpful.

But back to ‘psychcentral’ where Elisha Goldstein PH.D blogs regularly about the subject. I thought her article “Ten Ways To Live Mindfullness Today” was a concise and accessible introduction to Mindfulness that anyone could start to follow immediately and hopefully start to feel improvements in mood and levels of stress very quickly. So I thought I’d share it here for the benefit of anyone who may pop by my website.

You can read Elisha Goldsteins blog here:
http://blogs.psychcentral.com/mindfulness/2010/06/10-ways-to-live-mindfulness-today/

So if you are struggling with binge eating, purging, food cravings, compulsive eating or any other such trouble – why not give Mindfulness a try today, and start to take notice any little improvements in your symptoms that it may bring.