Dining

When clients are considering our program, one of the first questions we often get asked about is our food and dietary options. 

What you can expect during your stay:

• Trained & talented kitchen team, including our Executive Chef & Kitchen Manager, with years of experience providing healthy & nutritious – yet, soul filling meals to our guests.  
• We strive to provide diverse meals packed with culturally rich flavors, and even comfort cuisine when appropriate.
• Daily breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks are included in your workshop registration costs.
• Snacks are provided and located throughout client areas, including items such as granola bars, nuts, crackers, fruit, and more.
• We offer minimal caffeine, sugar, sodas, and desserts.
• We provide a wide array of healthy beverage options.

Dietary Needs & Restrictions

Our kitchen and staff are equipped to handle a wide array of special dietary requests.  During our admissions process, our team will discuss with potential clients their preferences, needs, and restrictions.  

We have worked with many dietary needs & restrictions, including:

Body & Food Wellness

At The Bridge, clients sometimes enter our program with an unhealthy relationship with food and body image due to their underlying and unresolved historical trauma.  

This can include: 

Food and body wellness is often a struggle for many of our clients, as it is most certainly a “symptom” of underlying & unresolved trauma.  Our care team and our kitchen team work closely together to assist clients education and balance where and when appropriate.

However, if a potential client is active in acute disordered eating behaviors (such as Anorexia & Bulimia), it is likely that they will receive a recommendation to attend a primary Eating Disorder Treatment Program prior to attending The Bridge to Recovery.  Our program focuses on trauma as the acute concern, and not the eating behaviors.  Getting the eating behaviors stabilized prior to attending our program then allows the client to focus on the underlying historical causes of all their maladaptive behaviors.