by RefreshMH | May 28, 2018 | Eating Disorder Treatment
Most practitioners acknowledge that in order to provide the most effective treatment for a client, treatment must take into account their personal preferences, styles and characteristics. When it comes to treatment approaches geared towards males with eating...
by RefreshMH | May 23, 2018 | Eating Disorder Treatment
Recovering from an eating disorder is hard work. It requires challengingpatterns of behavior, ways of thinking, and even re-conditioning the way that we experience emotions. In treatment clients are asked to do many things that are outside their comfort zone. This is...
by RefreshMH | Jun 30, 2017 | Anorexia Treatment, Bulimia Treatment, Eating Disorder Treatment
The practice of yoga quite literally means to “yoke” or link—in this case, specifically the practice of linking the mind, the body, and the spirit. And while yoga is often reduced to the image of some lithe, superhuman, twenty-something woman performing a series of...
by RefreshMH | May 26, 2017 | Anorexia Treatment, Bulimia Treatment, Eating Disorder Treatment
On Friday evening, April 21, 2017, we held our official Cielo House Pleasanton housewarming barbecue. With a number of new staff members, as well as the wonderful additions of the house garden and “art shed,” there was much to celebrate and showcase to the East Bay...
by RefreshMH | Mar 30, 2017 | Anorexia Treatment, Bulimia Treatment, Eating Disorder Treatment
“Imagination is absolutely critical to the quality of our lives… Imagination gives us the opportunity to envision new possibilities—it is an essential launchpad for making our hopes come true. It fires our creativity, relieves our boredom, alleviates our pain,...
by RefreshMH | Mar 30, 2017 | Anorexia Treatment, Bulimia Treatment, Eating Disorder Treatment
This was the question that was posed to the audience at Oakland Women’s Film Festival. It was part of the remarks by Matt Keck to introduce the film The Illusionists, a documentary about negative body image, consumerism and globalization. It seemed as though the...
