Adults with Anorexia
Resources around Family-Based Therapy (FBT) are getting better for parents who are caring for a child with an eating disorder. This is a very good thing.…
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Writing on eating disorder recovery for adults — the recovery process, neural rewiring, extreme hunger, weight restoration, and more.
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Podcast Episode on How to Overcome Fear of Food in Anorexia
I explained in the last podcast how I used information from the FEAST website on Family-Based Therapy to kick start my own inner mealtime matron. That was…
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New Podcast Episode: How I used Family-Based Therapy in Anorexia Recovery
This is not the podcast, to get it, you have to go to the Podcast Episode Here. If you subscribe in iTunes, you'll get new podcast episodes each week as I…
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Podcast Episode: Dr. Muhlheim on Adults with Eating Disorders
Hooray! I've added a podcast to my blog. It's called the Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast and is available for free download in iTunes and Google Play. You…
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Adults and Anorexia: The need for understanding and treatment
This blog post is another that was inspired by a reader who wrote to me. We had a series of in depth email exchanges and I wanted to use her story as an…
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Writing the Book: Body Confidence. Body Love. Anorexia.
See this cat. See that swagger. That's one cat who loves her body. I'm that cat. One thing that came up for me whilst writing the book, was the subject of…
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Why "down-talking" the seriousness of eating disorders doesn't help recovery
"There, there, it will all be okay," are exactly the words your ED wants you to hear. When one tells a person with an ED to recover when they are ready, one…
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Back to the veganism and eating disorders conversation
I wrote a post sometime last year now about my opinion on why people who have suffered from an eating disorder such as Anorexia cannot, and should not be…
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Keanu Reeves Stands Up for Eating Disorders [Video]
It's a thrilling day for a group of eating disorder advocates who found one another via the internet and have been working as a sparse, yet determined,…
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It's my 10-year Anorexia recovery anniversary!
I'll raise a glass to that! It's my 10 year Anorexia recovery anniversary this month, and I'm really bloody excited about it! Those who know me know that I…
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The Role of the Non-Professional Community in Eating Disorder Advocacy
I've been sprouting on about why I don't think that sufferers and ex-sufferers of eating disorders make the best ED therapists. If you need to recap the…
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Can you separate your triggers from your eating disorder?
Can you separate your triggers from your eating disorder? In my last post I skimmed over this point, but I think it is incredibly important for both active…
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Midweek Rant: Rosewood Ranch
An advocate friend drew my attention to a particularly awful website today. It's riled me up something rotten. "Love addiction and eating disorders both…
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How ex-sufferers can help the eating disorder community
How ex-sufferers can help the Eating Disorder community I wrote last week about why I don't think sufferers of eating disorders should become treatment…
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Why Eating Disorder Treatment Needs an Overhaul
There was a study published this month that showed what many of us have been saying for a long time: eating disorder treatment is massively ineffective in…