Explore Eating & Body Image Conditions
Click below to explore each condition, including warning signs, real stories, and what kind of recovery approaches help:
Your worth is not measured by your weight. Recovery is not about control it’s about coming home to yourself.
At TruPaths, we understand how complex, painful, and private eating and body image disorders can be. For many, they start as a way to cope, to control, or to feel “enough.” But they often become cycles of shame, secrecy, and exhaustion.
If you or someone you love is struggling with food, body image, or compulsive exercise and especially if it overlaps with addiction you are not alone. There is hope. There is healing. And there are recovery centers that truly understand.
Eating disorders are not just about food they’re about fear, perfectionism, emotional pain, or trauma. And they don’t always “look” like the stereotypes. People of every age, gender, size, and background struggle.
These conditions can also co-occur with substance use, especially when food or appearance is tied to control, numbing, or anxiety.
Click below to explore each condition, including warning signs, real stories, and what kind of recovery approaches help:
TruPaths connects individuals and families to recovery programs that treat both the emotional pain and the behaviors tied to eating and body image disorders. We focus on nonjudgmental, medically-informed, and emotionally validating care. We guide you to:
Access to residential, outpatient, and intensive care programs designed for long-term recovery and support.
Specialized centers that treat both eating disorders and substance use disorders at the same time, for deeper healing.
Therapists who understand how past emotional wounds impact eating patterns and body image.
Programs that honor all gender identities and promote body positivity with compassion and respect.
Supportive care for individuals of all sizes, backgrounds, and diagnoses, because healing should never be one-size-fits-all.
Understanding the emotional pain beneath eating disorders and body image struggles.
Using drugs, alcohol, food, or distractions to cope often signals deeper emotional wounds.
When meals feel like tests, and breaking the rules feels like failure.
When control turns into chaos, and your body becomes the battleground.
When mirrors, photos, or the scale distort how you feel about yourself.
When substances feel like the only way to quiet your mind or suppress hunger.
When reaching your goal doesn’t bring peace, just the next impossible standard.
At TruPaths, we believe:
Whether you're just starting to ask questions or urgently need help, TruPaths is here to walk with you. With care. Without judgment. Always.
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