Explore insights tailored for friends, family, and partners providing support to individuals grappling with eating disorders or on the path to recovery.

Eating disorders differ widely; behaviors vary by diagnosis. Calorie counting, not inherently disordered, may harm food relationships. Breaking it requires education, self-compassion, varied foods, and facing fears.

Understanding the stages of change will help you and those supporting you to better navigate your recovery journey. Where you are currently at within the stages of change will dictate what will best help you to take steps forward in your recovery.

Placing too much importance and value on the size and shape of your body and your ability to control your body e.g., identifying as the “fit” or “skinny” friend, keeps you trapped in an eating disorder.

Recovery can give you the energy and mental space to think about things deeply, pursue learning, enjoy the little things in life and show up authentically.

There is no one size fits all approach to eating disorder treatment. Treatment will depend on your eating disorder presentation and symptoms, access to services and your financial resources, among other things.

There is no rhyme or reason when it comes to fear foods; a fear food for one person could be a safe food for someone else.

Often a product of toxic diet culture, anyone can experience fear foods. But, people suffering from an eating disorder or disordered eating commonly experience fear foods, causing them to restrict the variety of foods they eat.

For those experiencing an eating disorder or disordered eating, the holiday period can be a challenging time of the year. But there are things that you can do to help you cope and hopefully even enjoy the holiday period.

As an eating disorder recovery coach, I focus on the HOW to support my clients in implementing practical recovery skills to encourage behavioural changes that move them towards their recovery goals. As a coach with lived experience of recovering from an eating disorder, I demonstrate living a recovered life and share aspects of my recovery journey to provide hope that recovery is possible.

When recovering from an eating disorder, you must act before you’re ready. If you wait until you’re 100% ready to recover, you’ll likely be waiting the rest of your life.

Need help knowing where to start? I've written this blog to provide some guidance and hopefully make the recovery process a little easier.

The vast majority of people with an eating disorder are not medically “underweight”. You cannot determine the severity of an eating disorder based solely on body shape and size, and the assumption that you can is a harmful stereotype. An eating disorder is a mental health diagnosis characterised by changes in behaviour, thoughts and attitudes to food, eating, weight or body shape that negatively impact your life.

Want to know the warning signs that you or a loved one may be experiencing an eating disorder? Read the blog to find out.

A lapse or relapse during eating disorder recovery is often triggered by something associated with the underlying causes of your eating disorder. Eating disorders are complex, arising from a combination of biological, psychological and cultural risk factors, meaning that what triggers one person in recovery won’t necessarily trigger another.

Want to know what to look out for to protect your recovery? Read the blog to find out.

Do you need help admitting and accepting that you have an eating disorder? I understand how hard this can be. For a long time, I was in denial about my eating disorder, and accepting I had an eating disorder was the start of my recovery journey. One of the first steps towards accepting that I had an eating disorder was being honest with myself and considering the intention behind my behaviours with food and exercise.

Supporting people to improve their relationship with food is intrinsically linked with support to improve their body image. Unfortunately, diet culture is rampant within society. So, it is understandable that you may have experienced body image struggles throughout your life. But with practice and patience, there are things you can do to improve your body image.

It could be argued that Western culture is diet culture, and consequently, most of us have been indoctrinated into diet culture since birth. Many of the beliefs instilled in us by diet culture feel like truth, and we accept them as fact. Dismantling our beliefs involves developing an awareness of them and learning to recognise diet culture’s pervasive messages. Once we can recognise diet culture, we can reduce its influence on our lives.

As someone who has been through the recovery process, I know how challenging navigating recovery can be. So, I want to make the process a little easier for you with my top five tips for eating disorder recovery.