Perfectionism in eating disorders isn’t just a personality trait it’s often a protector, guarding deeper emotional wounds. Explore how Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy helps identify and unburden the exiled parts that carry shame, fear of rejection, and trauma beneath perfectionistic behaviours. Examine the role of temperament, emotion avoidance, and self-worth in the development and maintenance of anorexia, bulimia, and orthorexia.

Combining Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), behavioural chain analysis and parts mapping for those experiencing crisis or suicidal ideation.

We understand legacy burdens as emotional, relational, and cultural debts carried by parts of the system that were simply trying to survive. Eating disorder behaviours often emerge as protectors, following these old rules to avoid pain, rejection, or perceived danger.

When we meet these parts with curiosity instead of control, and when we begin to name the inherited messages they carry, the system can begin to breathe. We don’t force healing; we make space for it.