When you first hear that Temperament Based Therapy with Supports (TBT-S) focuses on the neurobiology of eating disorders, it may feel overwhelming and out of your league. But you are fully capable of learning about how the brain works!
For those with an eating disorder, we will explain what is happening in your brain and why the root of your illness lies in your biology and not in your environment or social choices.
For those of you seeking guidance on how to best support a loved one with an eating disorder, understanding them is the first step.
At Brain Based Therapy NW, we break down each day into a different theme, and we talk about the brain areas every day in a bunch of different contexts. There will be lecture style teaching at some points, but even more hands-on activities and group discussion times to facilitate learning and comprehension. Check out our ‘Brain Areas’ series on this blog if you want to learn more about the specific brain areas we teach about during the 5-day treatment!
Much of the population tends to assume that eating disorders are psycho, social, or environmental illnesses. However, they are biological! They are just as biological as diabetes, or an autoimmune disorder, or an allergy.
In order to fight an eating disorder, we must understand the root cause. The science we teach is digestible, readily applicable, and lifechanging.
The feedback we have received always speaks highly of the neurobiological aspects of this treatment. While the eating disorder community still shies away from the brain basis of eating disorders, but we are working to shift that paradigm.:
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