Remuda Ranch Eating Disorders Treatment Programs

Type I diabetes and an https://www.remudaranch.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">eating disorder can be the worst possible combination. While most people with bulimia purge through vomiting or excessive exercise; someone with diabulimia purges by under-dosing insulin, which causes sugar to be eliminated from her body through urine reducing their caloric intake.

 

In the last 10 years, this dangerous new trend of manipulating insulin doses to lose weight has emerg...

A Letter to The Person You Were Before https://www.remudaranch.com/blog/item/200-what-i-wish-i-had-known-then" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Eating Disorder Recovery

 

Many women who have achieved long-term eating disorder recovery tell us that Remuda Ranch at The Meadows was the first place where they truly began their transformation.

They often say that even though t...

 

By Deirdre Stewart, The Meadows Director of Trauma Resolution Services

 

The Brain Center at Remuda Ranch at The Meadows opened less than a month ago. It sits high above and looks out onto the gorgeous Sonoran Desert. Its beautiful views and natural, peaceful setting provide an optimal environment for healing, restoration, quieting of the nervous system, and finding a conne...

College is an exciting time for many young adults. It’s often their first chance to establish an identity entirely separate from their parents or caregivers. But, with that freedom comes a lot of social pressures. Legends of crazy parties, wild binge drinking, casual sex gets passed down from generation to generation. The idea that irresponsible drinking and sex are rights of passage for college students is a...

By James D. “Buck” Runyan, Remuda Ranch at the Meadows Executive Director

When a person is found to have a problem such as diabetes, there are quick reactions from family and professionals to treat the affected person with a sense of urgency. Diet, exercise, proper sleep, stress reduction and medications are all implemented within a short period of time with the hope of limiting the consequences of a poorly functioning or non-functioning pancreas.

Though the general po...

By Noah Smith

Anxiety affects millions of Americans, and adults aren’t the only ones who live with it; children and teens struggle to cope with nervous conditions and mood disorders such as depression, too. For teenagers, anxiety can be difficult to cope with because it affects their performance at school, their relationships, and their social lives.

It’s important to talk to yo...

The practice of treating eating disorders has become more complicated in the last few years. Recent research has shown that a variety of factors can influence an individual’s development of an eating disorder.

We now know that there is a strong genetic component to eating disorders that makes individuals more vulnerable to the disease based on different temperaments and brain functions. We also know that there are many neurobiological factors that greatly influence t...

By Hayley Rambo, 2016 Remuda Ranch Alumna

Dear ED,

For years, you held me under the delusion that if I put my trust in you, you would make me invincible.

You would alleviate the pain that threatened to overwhelm me and turn my flaws into perfection. You made me believe that if I let you come first in my life, you would make me a disciplined student, a successful musician, and a person in control - a person my p...

by Moriah Hvizdak

How can you accept your outsides if you hate the person inside? How can you care for the shell if you don’t care for the core first? This was my dilemma for so long. Slowly destroying my body as I turned my rage inward.

By the time I started recovering from my eating disorder and self-harm I could see no way that I could ever like myself, let alone love myself enough to stop hurting myself. It seemed impossible, but I ...

By Ashley Martin, 2016 Remuda Alumna

“You are a liar. You tell me I am worthless, and unworthy. You say I am not worth fighting for. You tell me I am undesirable and unpleasant. According to you, I am ugly and overweight, incapable and broken.

You are a thief. You steal my happiness and my hope. You steal my motivation and my inspiration. You steal away my self-worth and my confidence.” It isn’t hard to remember how I felt when I wrote t...