Building a Safety Net at Work: How Companies Can Support Employees with Eating Disorders

Intro: Eating disorders don’t clock out at 5 PM. Creating supportive workplaces isn’t about diagnosing—it’s about building environments where healing can thrive. 1:Breaking the Silence: Creating a Culture of Compassion The greatest barrier to support isn’t resources—it’s shame. Companies can dismantle stigma through intentional cultural shifts: Leadership Vulnerability When executives share their own journeys, magic…

Building a Safety Net: How Campuses Can Create Three-Tiered Eating Disorder Prevention

Intro: Eating disorders thrive in silence and isolation. Campuses have a unique power to disrupt this—not through surveillance, but by weaving care into daily campus life. Tier 1: Universal Safeguards – Changing the Ecosystem Prevention starts long before symptoms emerge. It’s about creating environments where disordered relationships with food struggle to take root: Redesigning the…

TMS Breakthrough: Rewiring the Reward System in Eating Disorder Recovery

Intro: For decades, eating disorders were seen as choices or flaws. Now, non-invasive magnetic pulses are revealing what neuroscience confirms: this is about circuits, not character. 1:The “Reward Short-Circuit”: Why Pleasure and Nourishment Disconnect Picture your brain’s reward system as a radio. In healthy brains, eating fries triggers a clear “pleasure signal.” But in eating…