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10/14/2026

You don’t have to look “sick enough” to deserve support 💚

October 14th is National Eating Disorders Screening Day, a reminder that eating disorders are not always visible and that early recognition matters.

Eating disorders can affect people of all ages, genders, and body sizes. Sometimes, the warning signs can be easy to overlook.

They might look like
🔍 Constant thoughts about food, weight, or body image
🔍 Feeling anxious or guilty after eating
🔍 Increasingly rigid food rules
🔍 Exercising to compensate for eating
🔍 Avoiding meals or social situations involving food
🔍 Feeling like your relationship with food is taking over your life

If any of these experiences feel familiar, you do not need to wait until things become more difficult to ask for help.

Screening can be a first step toward recognizing concerns and finding support. It is not a diagnosis, but it can help open the conversation.

At Connected Eating, we believe everyone deserves to have their concerns taken seriously, regardless of how their struggles appear on the outside.

You deserve support at every stage. You do not have to reach a certain level of suffering to ask for it.

For Canadian eating disorder resources and screening information, visit NEDIC at nedic.ca.

Save this reminder or share it with someone who may need it.

https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/screening-tool

10/12/2026

Thanksgiving can feel complicated in eating disorder recovery 🍂🧡

While the holiday can bring family, connection, and meaningful traditions, it can also bring food anxiety, changes in routine, body comments, and pressure around eating.

If Thanksgiving feels overwhelming this year, you are not alone.

A few gentle reminders for the holiday weekend

🌿 Keep meals and snacks regular. Skipping meals to “save room” for Thanksgiving dinner can make eating more difficult later.
🌿 Give yourself permission to enjoy holiday foods. Stuffing, mashed potatoes, pie, and other traditional favourites can all have a place.
🌿 Set boundaries around food and body talk. You do not need to explain your plate or participate in conversations about dieting.
🌿 Avoid compensating for what you eat. You do not need to exercise more, restrict food, or change your routine to make up for a holiday meal.
🌿 Lean on your support system. Reach out to someone you trust, take breaks when needed, and give yourself space to manage difficult feelings.
🌿 Be gentle with yourself. One challenging meal or difficult day does not erase your recovery progress.

You deserve to enjoy the connection, traditions, and memories that come with Thanksgiving, even if food feels difficult right now.

Your recovery deserves care through the holidays, too 💚

Save this for the Thanksgiving weekend, or share it with someone who might need a little extra support.

10/05/2026

Even exciting transitions can come with a sense of loss.

A new school year can mean leaving behind familiar routines, teachers, friends, classrooms, supports, or simply the comfort of knowing what to expect.

And sometimes the hardest part of a transition is holding both things at once. Excitement about what is ahead and grief for what has changed.

For someone in eating disorder recovery, that uncertainty can make old behaviours feel tempting again. Food rules, restriction, body checking, or rigid routines may offer a temporary sense of control when everything else feels unfamiliar.

This is a time to lean into support, not the eating disorder.

🌿 Keep meals and snacks steady
🌿 Stay connected with people who support your recovery
🌿 Give yourself time to adjust
🌿 Notice when old behaviours start feeling appealing again
🌿 Ask for more support before things feel overwhelming

A difficult transition does not mean you are going backwards.

You may simply be learning how to carry your recovery into something new 💚

10/02/2026

Meet Vida Sussman, Recovery Coach at Connected Eating 🌿

Vida is a graduate of McMaster University’s Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behaviour program and is passionate about supporting young people in building a more positive relationship with food and their bodies.

Alongside her work as a recovery coach, Vida is helping develop healthy eating education for high school students, with a focus on supporting girls through this important stage of growth and transition.

Her hope is to help young people feel more supported, informed, and confident as they navigate food, body image, and everyday pressures.

We’re so glad to have Vida as part of the Connected Eating team 💚

09/30/2026

September 30th marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day.

Today, we honour the children who never returned home, the Survivors of residential schools, and the families and communities who continue to live with their impacts.

For those of us working in nutrition, this history also asks us to look closely at our own field.

During the 1940s and 1950s, Canadian government researchers conducted nutrition experiments involving Indigenous children in residential schools without informed consent. Many of these children were already living with inadequate food and malnutrition.

Learning this history matters.

Truth and reconciliation also means recognizing how food, nutrition, and health care were used within colonial systems, listening to Indigenous voices, and continuing to learn how our professions can do better.

September 30th is one day of remembrance and reflection. The learning must continue beyond today.

Every Child Matters 🧡

09/28/2026

Have you heard of the 3 Ps?

Puberty. Pregnancy. Perimenopause.

These are three major periods of change that can make food and body image concerns feel louder.

Changes in hormones, body shape, appetite, identity, mood, routines, and social expectations can all come together during these stages. For someone with a history of disordered eating or an eating disorder, old thoughts and behaviours may also start to resurface.

Eating disorders do not only affect teenagers. They can appear, return, or change throughout the lifespan.

If food rules, body checking, restriction, bingeing, purging, or exercise urges are becoming harder to manage during one of these transitions, you deserve support before things feel overwhelming.

Awareness of eating disorders needs to exist at every age and stage 💚

09/25/2026

Is intuitive eating for everyone?

Sometimes, not right away.

For many people in eating disorder recovery, hunger and fullness cues can feel confusing, muted, intense, or hard to trust. After periods of restriction or other eating disorder behaviours, the body and brain may need time and consistent nourishment before those cues feel more reliable.

That is why recovery often starts with more structure.

Regular meals.
Regular snacks.
Enough food.
Consistent support.
Gentle practice.

If intuitive eating feels too early right now, you can still practise flexibility. You might make substitutions based on what sounds good or what feels manageable, or add more when your body is asking for it.

The key is that intuition can be used to eat more or make an equivalent substitution, not to eat less than your recovery plan calls for.

Over time, regular nourishment can help rebuild trust in hunger, fullness, satisfaction, and your body’s needs.

Recovery is not about doing food perfectly. It is about learning to care for your body even when the cues are still finding their way back 💚

09/23/2026

At Connected Eating, our team meets for weekly supervision 🌿

This gives our clinicians dedicated time to reflect, ask questions, share perspectives, and thoughtfully consider how we can best support the individuals and families we serve.

Eating disorder care can be complex, and no clinician should have to work in isolation.

Weekly supervision helps us stay connected as a team, keep learning from one another, and approach client care with thoughtfulness, collaboration, and support.

We also discuss best evidence-based practice, research and continued education opportunities. We are continually growing and learning from experts in the field as well as our best teachers… our clients.

Behind every appointment is a team that is continuing to learn, reflect, and care 💚

09/21/2026

What are we teaching young girls to value about women in sport?

A sports betting campaign featuring Sydney Sweeney has sparked backlash from female athletes who say it sexualizes women in sport.

Athletes responded by showing what women in sport actually do.
Train. Compete. Work hard. Achieve.

Girls deserve to see female athletes celebrated for their skill, strength, dedication, and accomplishments, not reduced to their bodies.

In 2026, we can expect more from how women in sport are represented.

09/20/2026

Yom Kippur can bring up complicated feelings for someone in eating disorder recovery.

Fasting is an important part of Yom Kippur for many Jewish people. But protecting your health matters too.

If fasting could put your recovery, physical health, or emotional well-being at risk, eating and drinking may be part of taking care of yourself.

Not fasting does not mean the day has to lose its meaning.

Yom Kippur can still hold space for

🌿 Prayer
🌿 Reflection
🌿 Teshuvah
🌿 Community
🌿 Compassion for yourself and others

If you are unsure how to approach the fast during recovery, consider speaking with your treatment team and a trusted rabbi who understands your needs. You’d be surprised how many people with eating disorders, or even a history of struggling, have been told by ultra-orthodox rabbis not to fast. You might not feel sick enough, or you might want to use Yom Kippur as an excuse to starve. Then you know it’s probably not a good idea to fast. Pikuach Nefesh, saving a life, trumps other mitzvot, commandments. Eating disorders can be lethal so sabotaging your health for Yom Kippur is contraindicated!

You deserve to practice without sacrificing your recovery.

Wishing everyone observing a meaningful Yom Kippur 💚

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436 Glengrove Avenue West
Toronto, ON
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+14169673777

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