Hope at Every Age - Developing an Appetite for Recovery
A Collaborative Approach to Eating Disorders
A Girl Called Tim - Escape from an Eating Disorder Hell
My Kid is Back
“Choose whatever you like, Mum’. I looked at the menu and chose pancakes with maple syrup. Yum. Like many mothers around the world, I celebrated ‘Mother’s Day’ this past Sunday. I felt completely blessed, invited to brunch with all four children, and all five grand children. We sat in a lovely restaurant and I was [...]
… i got your book A Girl Called Tim out of the library last week and i literally read the whole thing in one day because i just couldnt put it down … it was the first book i have ever read that describes exactly how i feel its fantastic and im defiantly (sic.) going to [...]
My little Myne Cottage will be ‘bursting at the seams’ tonight when my family comes to dinner. There will be seventeen of us – my four children and their families; their dad, George, and his partner; the lovely Sri Lankan parents of one of my daughters-in-law, and – me. I am pretending my dining-living area [...]
The doctor told me today I have an eating disorder… If your child, or friend, or partner, or parent, or colleague, says this to you, what will you say in response? Or maybe you are the person with the eating disorder – if so, what did people say, how did they re-act, when they learnt [...]
I’m taking a break from book-writing to comment on Laura’s Soap Box: Good will hunting. Laura, thank you for this post, which relates very closely to matters within my heart and soul. For more than 20 years, from age 11 to in my 30s, I struggled with an illness which was considered by all around [...]
I reached for the phone. I was ready to accept the guidance of my minister and psychiatrist so I could become a person with normal behavioural habits. ‘I will go to the mental health hospital this Sunday,’ I vowed. ‘If I don’t go I will defer my recovery. I want to be free.’ But on [...]
ED says U said – Understanding the Language of Eating Disorders is filling up fast with hundreds of dialogues contributed by carers and people with eating disorder experience from around the world. Thank you! Of course, I want more! One conversation that has popped up time and time again runs like this: “Why is [...]
For years I felt my soul was literally in tatters, like those bits of seaweed you see washed up on the seashore. My eating disorder had devoured it, squeezed all sense of self out of it. Left it vulnerable and exposed to the forces of the outside world. Left me with no safe haven, living [...]
I regained me before ‘coming out of the closet’, so to speak, to share my experience of an eating disorder. I have been exploring ‘online’ for about five years. That’s all. I have met many people online in this time and cherish the many friendships that have evolved from communicating in this way. Although I [...]
Have you ever found yourself eating and eating and eating and, even though you know that you won’t be happy with this choice later, you’re unable to stop? This is the disordered path that Sophie Skover walked for years. Eleven years ago, Sophie had bulimia nervosa (BN) and repeatedly found herself living in this destructive eating pattern. [...]
