ABSTRACT
This chapter describes exercises that are accessible to a variety of practitioners who may not be specifically trained in the specific therapeutic modalities described. The mind and body are inextricably connected and reciprocally influence each other. Struggles with the body, prominent for all who suffer with eating disorders, are also existential struggles with the very pain of being a person living in a finite body. The role of subjective emotional or embodied experience in the conceptualization of eating disorders is lacking in the way eating disorders are conceptualized in the Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. Embodiment-focused efforts at prevention and treatment of eating disorders are situated at the crossroads of a variety of disciplines. Cognitive and behavioural models of treatment have been commonly used for the treatment of disordered eating. The high mortality rate of eating disorders is cited as a rationale for more forceful methods of refeeding.
