Found at the root of many women’s eating disorders — their Moms!
This isn’t exactly a new concept. 
Many young women that I see have very obvious connections between their relationships with their Moms and their relationships to their bodies. In the way that many women try to control their own bodies, they begin to do it with their daughters. So, rather than the eating disorder being internal (a hyper critical inner monologue) it begins externally. “You can’t eat sweets, you are getting too big, we need to hide the cookies from you…” etc. As they grow into women, that voice becomes a negative introject– meaning, women with eating disorders have taken the voice of a critical Mom and made it their own toward themselves. Of course eating disorders aren’t all about Mom. There are many different reasons as to why women and men develop EDs. However, it’s always a good idea to involve families in the treatment of eating disorders. Eating disorders don’t develop in a void, but they thrive and grow in seclusion. Bringing the family in helps to disassemble the isolation as it begins to make connections around the roots of the disorder. Mom’s shouldn’t be afraid to go into family therapy. Rarely is one person to blame for a person’s disorder. These things come down from generation through generation and can really be analyzed, sorted through, and understood for a divine healing for the whole family and all the generations to come.
