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 [...]
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 [...]
The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) is adding its voice to the growing numbers opposed to Jenny Craig CEO, Amy Smith, being named as the keynote speaker choice for the Alliance of Girls’ Schools upcoming conference. The Alliance is a non-profit organization “which aims to promote the education of girls in single sex girls’ schools [...]
Fifty years ago this month, I was developing Anorexia Nervosa, an illness that nobody in rural Australia knew about back then. The illness sabotaged four decades of my life. For fast recovery, early intervention is critical. Today we have a national website. Nowhere for ED to hide. Get that, ED, nowhere for you to hide. [...]
We all need to love our body but when we have an eating disorder this is not enough. We need to understand the language too. The language in our brain. An eating disorder is not a choice or something that can be switched off with a throwaway line; it is a biologically-based brain disorder that, [...]
With Australia’s first national eating disorder conference for families only 13 months away (May 23-25, Brisbane; can’t come soon enough), it is worth watching this Channel Seven Morning Show segment to know what the eating disorder field is up against in education in Australia. If ever there was any doubt that Australia needs an eating disorder [...]
Life isn’t fair. My psychiatrist said that to me, rather bluntly, years ago, when I was crying my way through a session about an injustice that had occurred as a result of my eating disorder. What he meant, when I calmed down sufficiently to reflect, was that by ceasing to expect life to be fair, [...]
ANZAED will hold an interactive ”Webinar” by Dr Josie Geller, from the University of British Columbia on 21 March. The extra good news is that this event will be free for all ANZAED members. The Webinar will involve a live presentation where participants can log in and watch on the web and/or listen via telephone. Full technical details will be [...]
Regaining one’s life from a long-time eating disorder is an amazing feat. Imagine an unwelcome, extremely bossy person living in your home for 10 years or more; well, it’s a thousand times worse when the equivalent lives in your brain, and you just can’t get a moment’s peace. Regaining one’s true self, and pushing that [...]
A devoted mother shared today that her daughter is restricting her food intake because soon she is to become an inpatient in a renewed effort to put her well on to the road of recovery. I understand the daughter’s thoughts because for many years I had the same thoughts my self. It’s all about a [...]
