You Are Worthy of Recovery From ED’s: Let Acupuncture Help

Eating disorders are serious, crippling mental disorders that can affect a person’s physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing. They involve a preoccupation with weight gain/loss and food such that eating patterns are disrupted and behaviors around food changed. These types of behavioral changes can affect a way a person thinks or feels about themselves mentally, emotionally, and socially. There are several different kinds of eating disorders, each with their own severities, but the most common are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder. 

Like most physical and mental health problems, eating disorders are best combated by utilizing a variety of modalities, such as mental health counseling, medication, nutrition therapy, and acupuncture. 

If you’ve never heard of acupuncture being used to help recovery of eating disorders, it most definitely can! Acupuncture treatment helps restore the flow of your life force energy, what’s known in eastern medicine as qi. Qi energy flows through pathways in your body called meridians, and each meridian controls one or more organs in your body. Correcting this energy flow promotes good health, healing, and overall mental and physical wellbeing. When used as a complementary therapy in an eating disorder treatment plan, acupuncture can help promote reduced anxiety, relaxation, and a change of attitude towards your body. It can also help support your bodily functions as they work to heal any long term physical damage done by the disorder. 

Acupuncture can also help reroute neural pathways that respond positively or negatively to food and body dysmorphia. It can help with persistent digestive issues such as constipation or nausea, insomnia and other sleep disorders associated with eating disorders, and menstrual problems that become quite common with rapid fluxes in weight, hormones, and stress levels, which are all affected by the disorder. 

It’s not just acupuncture that we offer here at Acupuncture and Holistic Health Center that may help you in your recovery stages! Holistic herbs and supplements that can help with digestive or metabolic problems, menstrual issues, and persistent anxiety are often gently recommended, and we will work with your other care providers to assist in the nutrition plan that will work best for you to achieve the results that you want.

You deserve your recovery, and you are worthy of seeking help through it. Acupuncture can help you as part of your comprehensive care plan so that you can thrive. We understand the value of treating you holistically, and treating the whole self, which includes the physical, mental, and spiritual levels within you. 

If this sounds like something you feel would benefit you in your recovery process, give us a call at (904) 296-9545 to schedule your consultation today!

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