good thoughts
Creating a visual aid that brings hope can be a very therapeutic. The idea with a few rules can make it more powerful than repeating words to yourself, trying to think positive, or fumbling your way...
View Articlewisdom teeth and triggers
You realise you are now in a different place when no matter how ordinary the things you do, create memories or triggers. Nothing is ever the same again is it. Once you have had an eating disorders, the...
View Articlewhat triggers most and it’s not the HSC
Soph has sailed really through her HSC. Her mood has been mostly stable, apart from one weekend melt-down. She studied (mostly), kept an even keel on her boat and got through. One day after the exams...
View Articlean open letter from another mum
I wanted to share this lovely post from one of my readers. As a mum with two children struggling with an eating disorder she gives some great advice, hope and strength to those of use following a...
View Articlethere is no shame in relapse
Relapse is not a failure point. It is not a weak point. It is not the fault of parent/carer or sufferer. Relapse is very much a normal part of having and recovering from an eating disorder. From the...
View Articlelevels of black and white
Whilst black and white thinking can make decisions and life simple, it stunts both growth as a person, expression, communication and the ability to perceive or discern what is around us. Another way of...
View Articlepeer support
There is a movement towards getting past sufferers to offer peer support to those sick with an eating disorder or in earlier stages of recovery. Good move and often it helps to talk to someone who...
View Articleexternalising the eating disorder
“Learn to separate yourself from the eating disorder” Heard that yet from your therapist? If you are in very early recovery you are not going to understand what they mean. You and the eating disorder...
View Articleeating = healing
You can have all the help, support, treatment and therapists but the bottom line about recovery, relapse and healing is this: To beat anorexia you have to eat This isn’t the “just eat” type of comment....
View Articleslippery slope or not
We have been down to visit Sophie – my half semester visit to check she is going ok and to help with homesickness. When she was home in July, I blogged how she had lost weight. Not in any danger zone,...
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