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 [...]
I fainted on the morning of my wedding day in 1971. Not from nerves, but from hunger. Bang! When I ‘came around’, I found myself lying on my parents’ bed, with my mother fussing over me; I didn’t know what day it was. I was 20 years old and had been suffering anorexia and bulimia [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
By the time you guide a child to recovery from an eating disorder, you are an expert on many things, including survival. Exciting new research is revealing how your experience with caring can help other carers, and speed the process of recovery. Until an eating disorder developed in her family, Pamela Macdonald was ‘just another mother’ [...]
