"The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion, fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?"

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Please refer to the following information below, which will assist you if you have a loved one suffering from an eating disorder. Excerpts from Carolyn's book, "The Eating Disorder Sourcebook":
Guidelines for Families and Significant Others Treatment
How to Approach and Talk to Someone you Suspect has a Problem
Guidelines for Others when a Loved One is in Treatment
Getting Help and Support for Yourself

Family Involvement in Our Program:

Family and significant others are an important part of the treatment. Therapists help each client to establish individual relationships and family goals on a weekly basis. Family work involves therapy sessions, having meals together, passes and even overnight excursions. All of this is important to help facilitate full recovery.

A family/significant other group is scheduled every week, although we realize many significant others may not be able to attend all of these. A family weekend is scheduled once a month and we highly encourage everyone to participate. Individual family sessions are set up on an as-needed basis. If family members or significant others cannot travel to the facility, we set up phone conference sessions. In very rare cases, sessions with family members or significant others are contraindicated, at least for a period of time. The therapist will explain this decision and work with the significant others, as appropriate, on this issue.