Podcasts
Overcoming an eating disorder
Lexi Crouch suffered from an eating disorder for 15 years. She has now overcome it and is a mentor to others going through a similar situation. Lexi and Belinda Chelius, General Manager of EDQ, joined Kat Feeney on the Afternoons Program.
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Joanne Cook on suffering and recovering from anorexia in mid-life
At the age of 43, Jo Cook was raising her four teenagers and active in the community in Hobart. Jo could never have foreseen how an eating disorder would demolish that life.
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Amanda Webster’s battle to save her anorexic son
Amanda Webster’s eldest son Riche was always very bright and he had his passions. These passionate interests became a obsessive and tinged with anxiety; then he started taking a serious interest in his food.
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Megan Axelsen opens up about her ongoing battle with anorexia
Megan describes herself as having two brains: one tells her to exercise obsessively and to starve her body. The other is that of an educated academic and athlete.
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AED Publishes Nine Truths about Weight and Eating Disorders
The Academy for Eating Disorders (AED) has released a new document titled Nine Truths about Weight and Eating Disorders in order to increase awareness of eating disorders in people along the full spectrum of body sizes.
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Researchers identify first genes linked to anorexia nervosa
See: Source Article I feel deeply emotional about this week’s announcement on genetic discovery. For a start, contributing a DNA sample to this ground-breaking research led by Professor Cynthia Bulik has helped me and thousands of others to feel that our lives and illness experience count. We want to ease suffering of others. Participating in … Read More
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‘To run you have to eat’ – how self-determination set Audry free from anorexia
See Also: Source Article The second article in a “patient and doctor” series on understanding eating disorders Dr. Richard Kreipe’s recollection of treating Audry After more than five years of treatment for restrictive anorexia nervosa in various inpatient and outpatient settings in which she was unable to achieve or maintain a minimal healthy body weight, … Read More
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Beat Eating Disorders: Carers’ stories
A great and ongoing resource from a UK website, with people of all ages and backgrounds, telling their stories about being carers openly and honestly.
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Family Involvement in the Recovery Process
Eating disordered behavior reflects a dysfunctional relationship with the self. Family Involvement cannot “fix” the eating disordered individual. It is a unique combination of heredity, environment, culture, and conditioning that cause eating disorders to develop.
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11 Myths About Eating Disorders, Debunked By Someone Who Lived It
During the summer, most individuals feel the pressure to slim down to what’s considered “beach body ready.”Unfortunately, some of these people may cross over the line of healthy dieting and exercise and develop an eating disorder.
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Predictors of therapeutic alliance in two treatments for adults with severe and enduring anorexia nervosa
Therapeutic alliance (TA) has been found to be a significant predictor of outcome for patients with severe and enduring anorexia nervosa, accounting for more variance than treatment type. To better understand how to promote TA for this population, this study aimed to investigate predictors of TA in adults with SE-AN.
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12 Ways to Support Your Partner with Binge Eating Disorder
I am in love with someone in recovery from binge eating disorder. There was no manual for this trip, no “how to” guides. It has been a many year journey. This is a bit about what I discovered to support her along the way.
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5 Ways To Help A Partner With An Eating Disorder
Wrestling with an eating disorder can be a lonely endeavor. People coping with eating disorders often feel alone and misunderstood, and it doesn’t help that we live in a society that champions a certain body type above all others.
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Severe and enduring anorexia nervosa (SE-AN): in search of a new paradigm
Anorexia nervosa is one of the earliest psychiatric illnesses to be described in the medical literature with well documented accounts made in the 19th century by both Gull [1] and Lasègue [2]. They both expressed optimism about the eventual outcome of treatment.
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5 Ways to Be an Ally to Your Partner’s Eating Disorder Recovery
See Source Article here Dear Partner, You probably didn’t think that the text you sent last night about your Crossfit personal record might be a problem. You also probably had no idea that I’d spend hours dwelling on the offhand comment you made about eating too many calories at lunch. And it might not have … Read More
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