HEALTH & WELLNESS
Limor Weinstein GIVING HOPE WITH HER GROUNDBREAKING B E S P O K E W E L L N E S S PA R T N E R S B Y J U L I E S AG O S K I N LEAH CASTO, PHOTOGRAPHER
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inding solutions for young people experiencing everyday stresses as well as eating disorders is a family affair at Bespoke Wellness Partners, a comprehensive center founded by licensed psychotherapist and eating disorder specialist Limor Weinstein. With licensed therapists, plus music therapists, yoga instructors and even a dance and arts therapist, the Upper East Side based Bespoke is breaking new ground and alleviating stigmas surrounding mental health issues. March might be Eating Disorder Month, but Limor knows that
disorders can continue both mentally and physically throughout one’s life – she also knows that there is hope, and is trying to bring that hope back with Bespoke. “Working with eating disorder clients, specifically teenagers for the past 15 years, I realized there wasn’t one centralized place that was both warm and collaborative that uses evidence-based techniques,” explains Limor, a leading expert in the field. “There was nothing to accommodate the whole family. Here, we have a medical doctor on staff, and have expanded to eight therapists and dieticians. I’m
not sure if there is anything else like this.” Having been born and raised in Israel, Limor, who served in the Israeli army and even lived on a kibbutz for a time, has also dealt with her own traumas throughout her life. “I had anorexia at 14 and was sick until I was 24. I was binging, purging and was addicted to laxatives. We had no money, my father was in jail, and I was living on a kibbutz with a foster family at the age of 12 after being separated from my family. When I was 21, I moved to the US and found myself in another unhealthy relationship. I thought I was dying at one point
