Loving Someone with an Eating Disorder by Dana Harron

In Loving Someone With an Eating Disorder, you'll find valuable information about eating disorders, diagnostic categories, and common misconceptions. This book provides that help by addressing your uniquely complex and difficult situation, and provides much-needed support for growth and healing. As a romantic partner, you need to know how to navigate issues such as parenting, sex and intimacy, and running a household. If your loved one is one of millions of Americans who suffers from an eating disorder such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia, you may feel alone, without guidance or understanding. You'll discover ways to communicate with empathy and understanding, strategies for dealing with mealtime challenges, and tips to help you both find your way back to trust, love, and intimacy. In this compassionate guide, eating disorder expert Dana Harron offers hope to partners of people with eating disorders. She lives in Virginia with her husband and daughter where she is an avid, but not skilled, knitter.Print Loving Someone with an Eating Disorder - Understanding, Supporting, and Connecting with Your Partner Harron has lectured at facilities such as Temple and George Washington University (where she is also serving as associate clinical faculty). She is currently dividing her time between writing, speaking, clinical supervision and direct client work.ĭr.

Ince then she has engaged in a wide variety of professional activities ranging from co-leadership of a unit at the state hospital of Delaware to college counseling and eventually to private practice. She completed internships at the Renfrew Center and the Belmont Center, both in Philadelphia. Harron completed her doctorate at Widener University’s Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology, where she was also the honored recipient of the Neubauer community service scholarship and the Empathy and Caring Award. Harron enjoys working with couples and helping partners individually to understand eating disorders, find healthy boundaries and clarify communications (among other things).ĭr. She is the founder and director of Monarch Wellness & Psychotherapy, a boutique practice that specializes in mind/body problems such as eating disorders, anxiety, trauma and fertility issues. Dana Harron is a practicing psychologist in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington DC.

Loving Someone with an Eating Disorder by Dana Harron