We offer a variety of clinical and therapeutic services to support individuals and loved ones through the various stages of their journeys. We provide education about eating disorders and their underlying causes to develop a compassionate community that promotes hopefulness and supports healing.
Join MEDA for a meaningful morning of community, connection, and courage as we gather to honor the power of storytelling and the many paths to recovery. We are honored to […]
Too much of a good thing: Understanding exercise addiction and compulsive exercise Presented by: Amy E Boyers, Ph.D. (She / Her) In this presentation, participants will learn what exercise addiction and compulsive exercise […]
We`re just two weeks away from this virtual event, featuring thoughtful conversation with author and dietitian, Deb Benfield, MEd, RDN/LDN, RYT, as she discusses her new book, Unapologetic Aging: How to Mend and Nourish Your Relationship with Your Body.
At a time when midlife and older bodies are increasingly targeted by diet culture, wellness and longevity messaging, and fear-based narratives about health, Unapologetic Aging offers a compassionate and liberating alternative. Grounded in eating disorder–informed and trauma-aware care, Unapologetic Aging is an invitation to challenge harmful cultural messages, embrace self-compassion, and step into aging with dignity, agency, and authenticity.
Whether you’re navigating your own relationship with aging, supporting clients, or seeking a more compassionate approach to body image across the lifespan, this conversation will offer insight, validation, and practical tools for healing.
Join us online, Thursday, September 24th at 7 p.m. ET. Register at the link in our bio.
#EmpoweredAging #AuthorEvents #DebBenfield #UnapologeticAging #SeptemberEvents #VirtualEvents
Sep 11
Back-to-School Reminder: Not everything that deserves an A belongs on a report card.
As a new school year begins, here`s a different kind of checklist:
☐ Ate lunch, even when the day felt busy.
☐ Asked for help instead of pretending everything was fine.
☐ Took a break without feeling guilty.
☐ Sat with a friend who looked alone.
☐ Remembered that your worth isn`t measured by grades, sports, appearance, or productivity.
Undoubtedly, school teaches us a lot of important lessons. We hope this year also teaches that taking care of yourself isn`t something you have to earn.
If this season brings up stress around food, body image, or perfectionism, you`re not alone. Support is available, and reaching out is a sign of strength, not failure. MEDA is here to help.
📧 Email: info@medainc.org
🌐 Learn more: www.medainc.org
#BackToSchool #EatingDisorderRecovery #BodyImage #MentalHealthMatters
Sep 9
DON’T FORGET TO SAVE THE DATE! Don’t miss your opportunity to submit your session presentation for next year’s MEDA Conference.
Each year, the MEDA Conference brings together more than 450 professionals to learn, connect, and collaborate around eating disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery support. Through expert speakers, educational sessions, networking opportunities, and continuing education, the conference advances compassionate, evidence-based care, and strengthens our professional community.
We invite clinicians, researchers, educators, advocates, students, people with lived experience, and others committed to advancing the eating disorders field to submit a proposal.
We are seeking engaging presentations that challenge conventional thinking, introduce new perspectives, and offer practical strategies attendees can bring back to their work and communities. Proposals should reflect creativity, collaboration, lived experience, and clinical excellence while responding to the complex and evolving needs of those impacted by eating disorders.
Your experience, expertise, and perspective could help move the field forward.
Submit your proposal and join us in shaping the MEDA Conference 2027.
Deadline is October 9th. More details and submission form available at the link in our bio!
#MEDAConference2027 #EvidenceBasedTreatment #CallForProposals #EatingDisorderCare #AdvancingHealthcare
Aug 28
NEXT MONTH!
MEDA is pleased to welcome Amy Boyers, PhD, Co-Founder of @galen.hope, for a professional training on Friday, September 18th: "Too Much of a Good Thing: Understanding Exercise Addiction & Compulsive Exercise."
Movement is so often framed as unambiguously healthy that harmful patterns can hide in plain sight. This training examines how fitness culture contributes to delayed diagnosis, and why exercise addiction warrants clinical attention as a disorder in its own right - even in the absence of an eating disorder.
In this presentation, you`ll:
-> Recognize what exercise addiction and compulsive exercise look like in practice
-> Understand the medical complications that can accompany them
-> Walk through the stages of treatment, including common interventions, mindful movement, and reintegrating movement during and after recovery
-> Explore how exercise addiction presents in athletes and the dilemmas that come with it
Dr. Boyers will also address how appropriate movement can be thoughtfully integrated into eating disorder treatment.
Register now on our calendar at the link in bio!
#ProfessionalTraining #ExerciseAddiction #CompulsiveExercise #EatingDisorderTreatment
Aug 25
In our latest MEDA Professional Spotlight episode, dietitian Anita Dharwadkar RDN, LDN, shares clinical insights on the complex, often misunderstood intersection of eating disorders and chronic illness. This conversation challenges siloed care and highlights the need for nuanced, patient-centered treatment.
Visit the MEDA Substack: www.recoverwithmeda.substack.com to listen!
#MEDAProfessionalSpotlight #EatingDisorderCare #ChronicIllness #PatientCenteredCare #IntegratedCare #Dietitian #ClinicalInsights #EatingDisorderRecovery #HealthcareProfessionals #WholePersonCare #MEDACommunity #ProfessionalEducation
Aug 25
MEDA is teaming up with @equiphealth for a free 60-minute virtual training on Tuesday, October 14th at 12pm PT / 3pm ET, featuring Dr. Meera Beharry, Staff Physician and Adolescent Medicine Advisor at Equip.
This presentation will review the current literature, epidemiology, and diagnostic landscape of co-occurring EDs and SUDs, including the limitations of current screening tools. We will highlight the benefits of integrated service delivery through treatment approaches like Motivational Interviewing (MI), DBT, and psychoeducation.
Dr. Beharry has over 20 years of experience caring for children and young adults and will present on how expert, evidence-based adolescent care can expand reach and impact across our field. 1 CE credit available.
Learn more and register on the MEDA calendar (navigate to October) at the link in our bio!
#EvidenceBasedCare #OctoberEvents #EatingDisorderSupport #RecoverySupport #EatingDisorders #SubstanceUse
Aug 21
Join us on Thursday, October 8th at 7pm ET for a hybrid book event with @drmelissafreizinger Associate Director of the Eating Disorder Program in Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, as she discusses DISOBEY: Finding Freedom from Your Eating Disorder.
Co-authored with Drs. Christina Tortolani and Renee Rienecke, DISOBEY is a compassionate, science-backed workbook that helps readers push back against their eating disorder and reclaim their identity, relationships, and a full, meaningful life - featuring recovery stories and art from adolescents and young adults who have been there.
Register here via the calendar at the link in our bio!
#EvidenceBasedCare #OctoberEvents #EatingDisorderSupport #RecoverySupport #AuthorTalks #RecoveryStories #HybridEvents
Aug 20
Stories can impact people in ways that facts and statistics cannot.
They also have the power to remind us that we are not alone.
They help us recognize ourselves in one another.
They give language to experiences that may have felt impossible to explain and remind people struggling with eating disorders that they are not alone. A shared story can soften shame, challenge assumptions, open the door to difficult conversations, and offer hope to someone who cannot yet imagine recovery for themselves.
When one person speaks honestly about what they have carried, it can give someone else the courage to seek support, hold onto hope, or believe that healing is possible.
At MEDA’s 2026 Annual Breakfast, The Stories We Carry, Voices of Courage, we will come together to listen to two powerful stories shaped by eating disorders and recovery - and honor the courage it takes to share them. We are delighted to welcome @mallarytenoretarpley, MFA and @threaldannyoconnor to share their stories of strength, resilience, struggle, and hope.
That is why supporting MEDA’s 2026 Annual Breakfast matters. By attending, sponsoring, or donating, you help elevate these stories while making MEDA’s treatment, support, education, and advocacy possible.
Join us on Friday, November 6, at the Boston Marriott Newton. Come to listen, connect, and help build a community where every story matters.
Learn more and register at the link in bio.
#MEDABreakfast2026 #TheStoriesWeCarry #VoicesOfCourage #PowerOfStorytelling #EatingDisorderRecovery #EndTheStigma #YouAreNotAlone #EveryBodyDeservesSupport #SupportMEDA
Aug 17
Living a life in recovery is not made up only of big milestones. Small moments matter, too.
What`s one small act of healing or self-care you`re proud of lately?
#LifeInRecovery #HAESAligned #EatingDisorderAwareness
Aug 15
We`re so excited to host this thoughtful conversation with author and dietitian, Deb Benfield, RDN, LDN, RYT, (@agingbodyliberation) as she discusses her new book, Unapologetic Aging: How to Mend and Nourish Your Relationship with Your Body.
At a time when midlife and older bodies are increasingly targeted by diet culture, wellness and longevity messaging, and fear-based narratives about health, Unapologetic Aging offers a compassionate and liberating alternative. Grounded in eating disorder–informed and trauma-aware care, Unapologetic Aging is an invitation to challenge harmful cultural messages, embrace self-compassion, and step into aging with dignity, agency, and authenticity.
Whether you’re navigating your own relationship with aging, supporting clients, or seeking a more compassionate approach to body image across the lifespan, this conversation will offer insight, validation, and practical tools for healing.
Thursday, September 24th at 7 p.m., join us online or in-person at the MEDA offices!
Register on our calendar at the link in our bio!
#EmpoweredAging #AuthorEvents #DebBenfield #UnapologeticAging #SeptemberEvents
Aug 13
Are you ready to present at the National MEDA Conference 2027?
Each year, the MEDA Conference brings together more than 450 professionals to learn, connect, and collaborate around eating disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery support. Through expert speakers, educational sessions, networking opportunities, and continuing education, the conference advances compassionate, evidence-based care, and strengthens our professional community.
We invite clinicians, researchers, educators, advocates, students, people with lived experience, and others committed to advancing the eating disorders field to submit a proposal.
We are seeking engaging presentations that challenge conventional thinking, introduce new perspectives, and offer practical strategies attendees can bring back to their work and communities. Proposals should reflect creativity, collaboration, lived experience, and clinical excellence while responding to the complex and evolving needs of those impacted by eating disorders
Your experience, expertise, and perspective could help move the field forward.
Submit your proposal and join us in shaping the MEDA Conference 2027.
More details and submission form available at the link in bio.
#MEDAConference2027 #EvidenceBasedTreatment #CallForProposals #EatingDisorderCare #AdvancingHealthcare
Aug 11
Eating disorders don`t discriminate, but treatment doesn`t always reflect that.
In this blog from our friends at @within_health, Jamie Singleteary, MA, LPC, NCC, CPCS, explores how stereotypes still shape who gets diagnosed, why treating the whole person matters more than treating symptoms alone, and what truly individualized care looks like in practice.
Read more on our blog, found at the link in our bio.
#eatingdisorderrecovery #inclusivecare #mentalhealthawareness
Aug 11
What if health included safety, access, community care, cultural connection, enough food, adequate sleep, autonomy, joy?
What would change if we defined health through care instead of control?
Share one thing that helps you feel supported, grounded, or connected.
#HealthAtEverySize #BodyLiberation #EDSupport #RedefineHealth
Aug 9
A huge thank you to our incredible sponsors supporting this year`s MEDA`s Annual Breakfast, "The Stories We Carry, Voices of Courage," on November 6th. We can`t continue to do this important work without you.
Every eating disorder carries a story: of frustration, of the exhausting search for help, and ultimately of resilience and hope. Your sponsorship does more than support this event. It helps ensure that more people find expert care, more clinicians know what to look for, more families receive answers sooner, and more individuals have the opportunity to recover.
Interested in becoming a sponsor? Opportunities are still available and sponsorship levels start at $1,000. See the full list of sponsor benefits - head to the link in our bio and click "MEDA Breakfast."
Questions? Email cjudge@medainc.org.
#MEDABreakfast2026 #EatingDisorderRecovery #MEDA #StoriesWeCarry
Aug 6
MEDA is pleased to welcome Amy Boyers, PhD, Co-Founder of @galen.hope Hope, for a professional training on Friday, September 18th: "Too Much of a Good Thing: Understanding Exercise Addiction & Compulsive Exercise."
Movement is so often framed as unambiguously healthy that harmful patterns can hide in plain sight. This training examines how fitness culture contributes to delayed diagnosis, and why exercise addiction warrants clinical attention as a disorder in its own right - even in the absence of an eating disorder.
In this presentation, you`ll:
-> Recognize what exercise addiction and compulsive exercise look like in practice
-> Understand the medical complications that can accompany them
-> Walk through the stages of treatment, including common interventions, mindful movement, and reintegrating movement during and after recovery
-> Explore how exercise addiction presents in athletes and the dilemmas that come with it
Dr. Boyers will also address how appropriate movement can be thoughtfully integrated into eating disorder treatment.
Register now on our calendar at the link in bio!
#ProfessionalTraining #ExerciseAddiction #CompulsiveExercise #EatingDisorderTreatment
Aug 5
New research from Center for Countering Digital Hate (@counterhate found YouTube is still recommending harmful eating disorder content to accounts registered as 13-year-old girls.
The platform has shown it can reduce these harms. Now it should stop recommending this content altogether.
Head over to counterhate.com to read the findings + urge YouTube to take real action now.
#EatingDisorderAwareness #OnlineSafety #PlatformAccountability #KidsOnlineSafety #DigitalWellbeing
Aug 3
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