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Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2023: Powering Up Together! Virtual Support Group

In honor of Eating Disorders Awareness Week, this virtual support group will focus on how we gain power from our community of others working in their recovery. We’ll discuss the difficulties associated with living in a society driven by diet culture while Renfrew alumni know the falsehoods and traps diet culture provides. Discussion will focus…

The Renfrew Center’s Residential Alumni Support Group

The Renfrew Center is offering a virtual support group for alumni of our Residential program as they move forward in their recovery. Participants in this online group will: Discuss the unique challenges faced by those in eating disorder recovery after leaving residential treatment. Receive take-away tips to navigate relationships and prioritize self-care in the home…

Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2023: Eating Disorder Advocacy – Finding Your Voice

Renfrew’s Eating Disorder Awareness Week campaign, We’ve Got the Power, is rooted in empowerment. It is a message which tells us we are strong enough to overcome and to live fully. Once we’re able to find our inner strength, many of us feel called to share that light, wanting to help others that are in…

Size Bias and Eating Disorder Recovery: Healing Across the Weight Spectrum

Weight stigma, also known as weight bias, fatphobia, or anti-fat bias, describes the systematic oppression that people in larger bodies experience in occupational, social, and medical systems. This bias is especially harmful among people personally impacted by eating disorders. Thus, awareness of anti-fat bias is essential in providing affirming care in eating disorder treatment spaces….

Voice of Inspiration: A Conversation With Alum Erica Leigh

The journey of recovery can be arduous, humbling, fulfilling, and transformative. Most of all, it is possible! To honor the full recovery journey, this webinar will capture a rich conversation between Renfrew Alumna Erica Leigh and Renfrew Alumni Services Coordinator, Erin Birely, LCPC. Eating disorder recovery is unique to each individual – there is no…

Grieving the Promises of Diet Culture in Recovery

There is a reason that the diet industry amasses billions of dollars every year. It tells us that if we pursue thinness or wellness with enough drive and dedication that things will be easier, better, and brighter. It promises that if we achieve the ideal body, than other challenges won’t be as hard.  It makes sense to…

Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2023: Empowering Self-Image Art Group

In honor of Eating Disorders Awareness Week, this art therapy workshop will empower participants to reexamine preconceived notions about our struggles, vulnerabilities and self-worth. We will use discussion and art-making to envision what strength and power could look like in each of us and how we can work with and build on the very qualities…

Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2023: Skills for Scrolling – Social Media Literacy and Eating Disorder Recovery

Research studies have established consistent links between social media use and body dissatisfaction, disordered eating, depression, and anxiety. Can we engage with social media in a way that helps rather than hurts us? In honor of Eating Disorders Awareness Week, join us to learn what it means to be social media literate, and get the…

Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2023: Embodied Empowerment Movement Groups

In honor of Eating Disorders Awareness Week, join Sara Earl, MS, NCC, The Renfrew Center of Philadelphia, in a revitalizing movement group. Learn to nourish yourself with movement rather than punishing yourself with exercise. This mindfulness-based, joy-fueled, 30-minute movement experience will boost energy, soothe nerves and improve mood. Flex, release, sway, twist, regulate, synchronize, express,…