The Morgan Foundation

06/05/2026

Category Laundering and Manipulation.

At ICED 2026, Dr. Rebecca Peebles participated in the panel discussion, “From Recognition to Action: Addressing Weight Stigma in Family-Based Treatment.” Apparently, during her part of the presentation, Dr. Peebles utilized this slide: Dr. Cheri Levinson provided additional information about this slide when she posted on social media, “People with a BMI of 25-37 actually have the LOWEST mortality rates....

At ICED 2026, Dr. Rebecca Peebles participated in the panel discussion, “From Recognition to Action: Addressing Weight Stigma in Family-Based Treatment.” Apparently, during her part of the presenta…

06/02/2026

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Recently, one of the creators of the Inclusive Eating Disorder Certification Program questioned how I can speak so vehemently about collaboration when I am, in that person’s view, so divisive in the eating disorder community. That question deserves an answer because it exposes one of the field’s most persistent evasions. Many people in the eating disorder community use the word collaboration when they mean agreement, access, approval, politeness, ideological alignment, or silence....

Recently, one of the creators of the Inclusive Eating Disorder Certification Program questioned how I can speak so vehemently about collaboration when I am, in that person’s view, so divisive in th…

05/26/2026

The Eating Disorder Community is in Decline and I will not Pretend Otherwise

I am angry. Not performatively angry. Not professionally offended. Not angry because I lost an argument on the internet or failed to receive applause from a community that mistakes approval for moral authority. I am angry because my daughter is dead. Morgan died from anorexia. On October 30, 2016, a brilliant light was extinguished. That date is not rhetoric. It is not branding....

I am angry. Not performatively angry. Not professionally offended. Not angry because I lost an argument on the internet or failed to receive applause from a community that mistakes approval for mor…

05/12/2026

WHAT’S IN YOUR WALLET?

The last chapter in Center for Discovery’s all but played out existence is being written. The May 11 auction of its parent company, Discovery Behavioral Health was not an ordinary sale process but instead, was a forced unwinding of a leveraged behavioral health platform. Public reporting indicates that Discovery’s lenders, Capital One and HPS Investment Partners, had already taken control after declaring the company in default on roughly $270 million in debt, removing the board and installing their own leadership structure....

The last chapter in Center for Discovery’s all but played out existence is being written. The May 11 auction of its parent company, Discovery Behavioral Health was not an ordinary sale process but …

04/27/2026

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The latest hobgoblin to perplex the eating disorder community is the use of GLP-1 medications. Competing presentations and articles are being published. Accusations of bias are already bandied about. This raises the inevitable question ... was the talk or article biased or was it simply incomplete? That distinction matters more than it may first appear. To call a presentation “biased” is to suggest a fundamental defect....

The latest hobgoblin to perplex the eating disorder community is the use of GLP-1 medications. Competing presentations and articles are being published. Accusations of bias are already bandied abou…

04/20/2026

WHAT AM I BID FOR …

For people in the eating disorder community, this is not an abstract finance story. This is Center for Discovery, one of the most recognizable names in eating disorder treatment, a brand that for years presented itself as a leader in residential and outpatient care for adolescents and adults, and a major component of the larger Discovery Behavioral Health platform. That platform reportedly expanded across 16 states and more than 150 treatment centers at its peak....

For people in the eating disorder community, this is not an abstract finance story. This is Center for Discovery, one of the most recognizable names in eating disorder treatment, a brand that for y…

04/13/2026

When confirmation bias and social activism seek to replace science and evidence.

On April 6, 2026, the journal, Fat Studies – The Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society published the article, “GLP-1 medications for weight-loss: a triumph of marketing over pa…

04/08/2026

Sick Enough (Second Edition) by Dr. Jennifer L. Gaudiani

Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani’s first book, Sick Enough became one of the most influential medical texts on eating disorders for a mixed audience of clinicians, patients and families. Her recent Second Edition considerably expands its reach. It is broader in diagnostic scope, more explicit in its rejection of weight stigma, and more attentive to populations historically marginalized within eating disorder discourse, patients in larger bodies, those with ARFID or atypical anorexia, athletes, neurodivergent individuals and others....

Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani’s first book, Sick Enough became one of the most influential medical texts on eating disorders for a mixed audience of clinicians, patients and families. Her recent Second Edi…

04/02/2026

What Chiles and the Meta Cases Mean

Therapists have expressed concern about the recent Supreme Court decision in Chiles v. Salazar and what it means for their practice. They see this decision as a ruling about conversion therapy. But that framing is far too narrow. What the Court actually determined is far more consequential for your practice. The opinion partially redefined psychotherapy as protected speech under the First Amendment....

03/26/2026

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The March 25, 2026 jury verdict in Los Angeles against Meta and Google, paired with the $375 million New Mexico verdict against the same companies the day before, mark a structural shift in how courts conceptualize harm arising from social media platforms. These cases do not merely expand liability. They reframe the legal ontology of digital platforms from neutral intermediaries into potentially defective consumer products....

The March 25, 2026 jury verdict in Los Angeles against Meta and Google, paired with the $375 million New Mexico verdict against the same companies the day before, mark a structural shift in how cou…