Eating Disorders: Grizzly Bear Parenting and Hope When Your Child is Anorexic

Eating Disorders: Grizzly Bear Parenting and Hope When Your Child is Anorexic

Why can you remain hopeful when it seems like all the odds are against you and your child? There are many reasons why you can hope, and we will only talk about one. Here it is:

Love and grizzly bear parenting is stronger than ED (eating disorder).

I know that girls, women, boys and men die from eating disorders. Believe me, I read the statistics. I also know that we can’t live with our heads in the sand and think, “It’ll never happen to me.”

But I also know the power of love and the “Mama and Papa Bear” that occurs to parents when their child is sick or in danger. It is this strong, grizzly, powerful love and protection that will help you help your daughter whether she thinks she needs it or not.

In the past, parents were broke when it came to helping their children with eating disorders. You may have been placed on the periphery of your child's treatment. I have no research to back this up. However, lack of parental involvement may have contributed to treatment being less effective over the years.

Fortunately, that is changing.The Maudsley approachis becoming more respected as the treatment of choice if you have an anorexic teenage daughter or son. Research shows it is more effective than individual therapy, and recovery rates are impressive to say the least.

You can have hope because there is a form of treatment that empowers you as a parent.The Maudsley approachgives you permission for mom and dad to come out inside you; not against your daughter, but against the eating disorder. She needs youget grizzlytowards the ED so you can save her life.

Inspired by Lynn A Moore