Building Healthy Roots

Acute or chronic stress may change an individual’s eating patterns due to psychological and emotional stressors (Cameron, Maguire, & McCormack, 2011).  Survivors of sexual trauma may have more psychological and physical stress leading to an increase in food intake that is used as a coping skill. (Connors & Morse, 2006) Binge eating is often thought of as a lack of self-discipline if one provides judgment without knowing a person’s history leading to this behavior. In …

Childhood trauma such as emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect are often a common denominator with eating disorders (Utzinger, Haukebo, Simonich, & Wonderlich, 2018). Eating disorders include binge eating disorders, both Bulimia Nervosa and binge eating disorder without vomiting. Interestingly, a history of emotional abuse happens more often for people diagnosed with bulimia nervosa. Bulimia Nervosa is a result of a person eating regular or large amounts of food and throwing it up …