ATYPICAL ANOREXIA
Anorexia nervosa is one of the most well-known and most discussed eating disorders. Despite education and awareness efforts, many people,...
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- Feb 27
- 6 min
DID SOMEBODY SAY 'JUST EAT'?
Having an eating disorder is far more complicated than feelings about food. Eating disorders are difficult to understand for those...
- Dec 4, 2021
- 3 min
THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS
Families can be tricky at the best of times, and during Christmas they can be a real nightmare. Christmas for me was never a joyful...
- Dec 1, 2021
- 5 min
CHRISTMAS WITH AN EATING DISORDER
Supporting a family member with an eating disorder at Christmas presents a lot of complex and challenging problems. It is important to...
- Oct 20, 2021
- 2 min
PLAYING WITH EATING DISORDERS
I have struggled with my eating disorder for years, but I wasn’t officially diagnosed until this year. My eating disorder went unnoticed...
- Sep 28, 2021
- 5 min
EATING DISORDER MINDSET
Eating disorders come to serve a purpose for those who suffer from them : after all, one of the first things we're taught in psychology...
- Sep 4, 2021
- 6 min
USING AFFIRMATIONS IN RECOVERY
When we have an eating disorder , we're plagued by intrusive, negative thoughts. When we think like this, our confidence, mood and...
- Aug 18, 2021
- 2 min
A Brief Explanation of CBTE
Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBTE, is one of the leading evidence-based treatment for adults with an eating disorder. It is also...
- Jul 10, 2021
- 3 min
SIGNS YOUR TEENAGER MAY HAVE AN EATING DISORDER
So you know eating disorders are serious and increasingly prevalent. Untreated, they can lead to serious and possibly fatal medical...
- Dec 22, 2020
- 8 min
NAVIGATING CHRISTMAS WITH AN EATING DISORDER
It's just one day It's nothing. A blip Plus, it’s not even really a whole day. I mean, when I was ill I did a lot of sleeping. And you...
- Nov 3, 2020
- 6 min
Eating Disorder Myths
Eating Disorders are life-threatening illnesses yet anorexia, bulimia, binge-eating, and the other disorders are still misunderstood and...
- Feb 6, 2020
- 7 min
IS IT BINGE EATING DISORDER?
Binge eating disorder (BED) is a type of feeding and eating disorder that was added as an official diagnosis in DSM V (Diagnostic and...
- Jan 27, 2020
- 7 min
MOTIVATION IN EATING DISORDER RECOVERY
There are some questions around motivation in eating disorders that I get asked regularly- how do we find it; how can we hold on to it...
- Dec 30, 2019
- 7 min
New Year's Resolutions In ED Recovery
A New Year's resolution is a decision to do or not do something to accomplish a personal goal or break a habit. It comes at the end of...
- Dec 14, 2019
- 5 min
EXPOSURE THERAPY
Exposure Therapy has been shown to be the most effective anxiety treatment for people with many anxiety disorders. They can also help...
- Nov 4, 2019
- 5 min
set point in recovery
In my new blog series ' Recovery in the 21st century', I'll be looking at all aspects of recovery in terms of the newest research,...
- Sep 7, 2019
- 4 min
ACE scores and eating disorders
I'm in the process of finishing my clinical trauma specialist certification, and it's got me thinking (again!) about the powerful and...
- Jun 29, 2019
- 5 min
- Jun 22, 2019
- 6 min
So what is diabulimia?
Diabulimia is a media-coined term that refers to an eating disorder in a person with diabetes, typically type I diabetes, wherein the...
- Jun 3, 2019
- 3 min
The neurobiology of anorexia
Anorexia, like all eating disorders, tend to start in adolescence. The thing that triggers our eating disorder varies, the comments from...