Belonging and Mental Health: Why Pride Is About More Than Identity
June 1, 2026 SpringSource: Eating, Weight & Mood Disorders
Most LGBTQIA+ people can remember the first moment they felt truly seen and accepted for who they are. Maybe it was a friend or family member who did not flinch. A community that did not require explanations. A relationship where the armor finally came off. A space where the careful calculations that had become second […]
Why Do I Keep People-Pleasing? Understanding Self-Abandonment and How to Stop
May 29, 2026 SpringSource: Eating, Weight & Mood Disorders
She had been dreading the family gathering for weeks. Her sister, someone she loves and mostly gets along with well, had a way of making every shared occasion feel like something to survive. Not because she meant any harm. Because she carried her own anxiety like weather, and wherever she went, everyone else got rained […]
Scared to Stop Your GLP-1? Understanding Concerns About Weight Regain
May 8, 2026 SpringSource: Eating, Weight & Mood Disorders
If you are taking a GLP-1 medication like Wegovy or Zepbound, there is a good chance you have already thought about what happens when you stop. Maybe your prescription costs more than your budget can sustain long-term. Maybe your insurance coverage is uncertain. Maybe you are simply wondering, with yourself or with your doctors, whether […]
The Missing Piece in Weight Care: Integrating Mental Health and Medicine
April 27, 2026 SpringSource: Eating, Weight & Mood Disorders
The Four Pillars of Obesity Medicine The Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) emphasizes that comprehensive treatment to improve an individual’s health through weight loss involves the application of four essential pillars: nutritional counseling, physical activity, medication(s), and behavioral modification. These fundamental principles work in tandem and are of equal importance to a patient’s success. Three of […]
GLP-1 Medications and Eating Disorders: A Complicated Relationship
April 24, 2026 SpringSource: Eating, Weight & Mood Disorders
By now, most people have heard of GLP-1 medications and know someone who is using them. Wegovy, Zepbound, Ozempic are names that have moved from prescription pads into everyday conversation, appearing in news headlines, social media feeds, and dinner table discussions with a speed that reflects just how much cultural weight we collectively attach to […]
Why Am I So Hard on Myself? Understanding the Inner Critic
April 14, 2026 SpringSource: Eating, Weight & Mood Disorders
Most people know the voice of the inner critic well, even if they have never given it a name. It shows up in the morning when you look in the mirror. It arrives uninvited after a difficult conversation at work, replaying every word you wish you had said differently. It is there when you eat […]
Emotional Eating: Why It Happens and What It’s Trying to Tell You
March 30, 2026 SpringSource: Eating, Weight & Mood Disorders
For many people, emotional eating is something they struggle with in secret. It might look like reaching for food after a long day, eating past fullness without fully realizing it in the moment, or feeling pulled toward certain foods when emotions feel overwhelming, dull, or hard to describe. Sometimes people will say “I’m eating my […]
Fatphobia, Body Positivity, and GLP-1 Medications
March 16, 2026 SpringSource: Eating, Weight & Mood Disorders
Can You Love Your Body and Still Want to Lose Weight? For most of my adult life, I carried between 30 and 90 pounds above what doctors considered my optimal weight, even though I ran marathons in my 30s and did nearly everything I was told should work. For many people, conversations about weight feel […]
What If Recovery Isn’t the Shore?
March 15, 2026 SpringSource: Eating, Weight & Mood Disorders
A Letter to Harm Reduction I have lived with an eating disorder for over twenty-five years. What began as a ripple—a quiet desire to feel in control and make sense of the chaos—slowly seeped into every corner of my life. On the surface, I appeared to have it all together, but underneath the eating disorder […]
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