PARK Magazine

HEALTH & WELLNESS
Limor Weinstein
GIVING HOPE WITH HER GROUNDBREAKING
BESPOKE WELLNESS PARTNERS
BY JULIE SAGOSKIN
LEAH CASTO, PHOTOGRAPHER
Finding 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