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
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 [...]
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 [...]
Mentoring is one of the most under-valued skills and gifts around. The dictionary describes a mentor as ‘an experienced and trusted adviser’. Shannon Cutts is this and much more. I met Shannon at the 2009 NEDA conference in Minneapolis. There she was, with her lovely long hair and gorgeous smile, exactly as you see in this picture. Except [...]
This week is ‘packed to the rafters’ with joyful moments. First there was the birth of my fifth grand child and third grand daughter, Amelia Jane, on Tuesday, and today the birth of an e-book – Hope at Every Age – Developing an Appetite for Recovery. This e-book has been inspired by the interest in my [...]
Children who develop an eating disorder deserve the opportunity to receive evidence-based treatment – that is, a treatment that has been thoroughly tested and has both runs and explanation on the board. Alas, for most people, this is not a reality in 2012. It is a dream. Recovering from an eating disorder, for many children [...]
TwistED is out, and ED says U said is in. Thank you to the many respondents who have shared thoughts on the concept and title for the upcoming book on understanding the language of eating disorders. Your insights are appreciated. TwistED was a working title and your heartfelt and evidence-from-experience observations have pointed out an ambiguity – we [...]
Eating disorders have pretty much a language of their own. We say one thing and it is heard and interpreted as another. This can be hard to accept when our intention is noble. Something happens on the way from the speaker to the listener. The sense of the words can be twisted into many meanings, depending [...]
Exercise is good, but excessive or compulsive exercise can be dangerous. At age 13, Kristen embraced the outdoors and enjoyed cross-country running at school. She was not overweight, had never been a big eater, ate little junk food and was not concerned about her body image, but she did want to improve her personal best [...]
“… families talk about getting their kids back.” Professor Susan Sawyer, director of adolescent health at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, is talking about the RCH’s highly successful implementation of the Maudsley Approach for early intervention of anorexia nervosa in children and adolescents. Parents often feel they have ‘lost’ their child when an eating disorder develops. This is [...]
Do you see your ED as having been a battle with your appetite, your body shape, or compulsive behaviours that have no real ‘meaning’ other than that you feel you must do them? My response to this question from Extra Long Tail is, all of the above. Eating disorders, like people, come in all shapes and sizes, [...]
