Let’s Talk Eating Disorders & Perinatal Mental Health
Did you know:
9% of the US population, or 28.8 million Americans - ranging from kids to older adults, will experience an eating disorder at some point in their lives.
We are starting to see disordered eating and negative body image in children as young as 8-years-old.
According to the American Pregnancy Association, eating disorders affect about 7 MILLION American Women each year, and tend to peak during childbearing years.
Binge eating is the most common eating disorder in the United States, which affects 3.5% of women and 2% of men.
The National Alliance for Eating Disorders states: 16% of pregnant women will have experienced an eating disorder at some time in their life, and 50% relapse within a year of delivery.
Nearly 12% of pregnant people report eating disorder symptoms during their pregnancy or postpartum.
Only 1 in 5 people with an eating disorder seek treatment from someone who specializes in working with eating disorders.
I want to take a moment to acknowledge that these statistics and information is from diagnosed and reported cases of eating disorders.
If we were to know the numbers of how many people experience struggles with food judgements, negative body image, and compulsive exercise, I can guarantee that those statistics would be significantly higher.
All of this is why it is so important to me that I do the work I do. The intersectionality between perinatal mental health and battles with food/body/exercise (not just diagnosed eating disorders) is not talked about enough.
Even if you do not have a diagnosable eating disorder, if your relationship with food and your body feels distressing, or has a significant impact in your day-to-day life, your experience is also VALID.
My hope for you is that my FREE LIVE webinar - Nurtured & Embodied: Find Peace With Food & Body (During Pregnancy, Postpartum, & Beyond) - can help to relieve some (or a lot!) of that pain, and for you to feel like you can let go of old beliefs and habits, and move forward into parenthood with confidence and balance in your relationships with food and your body.
You can register for the webinar here!
