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August 9, 2022 Mental Health and Wellbeing

The Worst Days in Recovery

There’s a saying: your worst days in recovery are better than your best days with an eating disorder. I wish

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July 15, 2022 Eating Disorders

How to Carry On when You Feel Stuck in Eating Disorder Recovery

Feeling ‘stuck’ in eating disorder recovery is really common. You might feel like you’ve made some (or even a lot)

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July 12, 2022 Eating Disorders

Coping with an Eating Disorder in the Summer Months

Managing recovery from an eating disorder is challenging at the best of times, but there are various factors that can

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June 19, 2022 Eating Disorders

Things No-One Told Me About Eating Disorder Recovery

Anorexia recovery is hard, probably the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life. There were things that I didn’t

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June 3, 2022 Eating Disorders

How to Maintain Eating Disorder Recovery While Travelling

Travelling , be it a short city break, a long backpacking holiday and everything in between, can throw up a

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May 12, 2022 Eating Disorders

How to Cope When Your Eating Disorder is Telling You to Relapse

An inevitable part of recovery for most people is thoughts about relapse. For many people that doesn’t materialise, however for

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April 6, 2022 Eating Disorders

How to Cope with Calorie Labelling in Restaurants

This week we have seen the introduction of new legislation here in the UK, whereby calories are now to be

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March 9, 2022 Eating Disorders

10 Things I’ve Learnt a Year After Discharge from Eating Disorder Services

Today marks a whole year since my last appointment with my eating disorders service. I have been under them on

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March 3, 2022 Eating Disorders

The Financial Cost of Eating Disorders

Eating disorders are costly in many ways. Most often, people think about the costs to our health and wellbeing which

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February 28, 2022 Eating Disorders

What I Wish I Knew as a Parent of a Child with an Eating Disorder

For Eating Disorders Awareness Week this year I wanted to gather some experiences of parents. A lot of parents reach

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January 21, 2022 Eating Disorders

Getting Your Period Back in Anorexia Recovery

I want to preface this by saying that not everyone with anorexia will lose their period. It is not a

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January 19, 2022 Eating Disorders

Reminders for when Eating Disorder Recovery Feels Impossible

Recovery from anorexia is hands down the hardest thing I’ve ever done. It was the most physically and mentally painful

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November 3, 2021 Eating Disorders

Coping with Weight Gain in Eating Disorder Recovery

I get a lot of messages asking me about how to cope with weight gain, so I thought I would

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October 21, 2021 Mental Health and Wellbeing

The Downfalls of Being ‘High Functioning’

I do not, from the outside at least, appear to have a mental illness. But that’s the point. You can’t

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September 20, 2021 Bipolar Disorder / Eating Disorders

When Bipolar and Anorexia Collide

I now have a diagnosis of anorexia in remission, and I am in a good place with my recovery. I

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August 22, 2021 Eating Disorders

Eating Disorders and Laxative Abuse

Misuse of laxatives is an incredibly common behaviour used by people experiencing eating disorders, but is often very secretive. It’s

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August 6, 2021 Mental Health and Wellbeing

How it Feels to be a Prominent Mental Health Campaigner

I want to start this off by saying how incredibly grateful I am to everybody who supports me on social

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August 2, 2021 Eating Disorders

Eating Disorders: Is Quasi Recovery Always Bad?

When thinking about eating disorder recovery, the aim is generally to live a life entirely free from it. So why

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July 13, 2021 Eating Disorders

Do We Choose to Recover from an Eating Disorder?

Many recovery stories talk about choosing to recover. I agree that in some ways this is a really significant part

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July 3, 2021 Eating Disorders

How to Navigate a Relationship with Somebody with an Eating Disorder

Eating disorders are incredibly complex illnesses that infiltrate every area of the person’s life, and by default this means they

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June 10, 2021 Eating Disorders

Lies My Eating Disorder Told Me

Anorexia is a deadly illness, and it’s very difficult to explain to onlookers why those who have it are so

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May 28, 2021 Mental Health and Wellbeing

10 Things to Know Before Starting Therapy

Starting therapy can be daunting, and it can be hard to know what to expect. Here are some things I’ve

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May 12, 2021 Eating Disorders

Restaurants and Calorie Labelling – Helpful or Harmful?

Yesterday it was announced that previously discussed plans of adding calorie content to restaurant menus is going to come into

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April 29, 2021 Eating Disorders

How to Cope with Bad Body Image

I’m sure most people struggle with their body image, some more than others. As somebody who struggled with an eating

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April 11, 2021 Eating Disorders

Why Eating Disorder Treatment Must Improve

I don’t know Nikki Grahame. Nonetheless, her death on Friday has hit me very hard, as it has many of

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April 5, 2021 Eating Disorders

Five Things to Remember When Your Eating Disorder Calls

No matter how ‘recovered’ you are from an eating disorder, it may try and call you back. It could be

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March 15, 2021 Eating Disorders

My Anorexia Treatment: A Round Up

So, this is it. After 18 months, I have been officially discharged from the eating disorders service. Many of you

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March 9, 2021 Eating Disorders

Goodbye Eating Disorders Service

I did it. Today I close the chapter on this phase of recovery, as I am now officially discharged from

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February 20, 2021 Mental Health and Wellbeing

Thank You, Time To Change

Today I attended my last Time To Change event, as the campaign is finally coming to a close. I have

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February 13, 2021 Eating Disorders

Eating Disorders: The Grass Isn’t Greener

Anorexia is an evil illness. Onlookers might be confused as to why some of us try to cling onto it

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January 28, 2021 Mental Health and Wellbeing

What I Mean When I Say I’m Tired

I’m sure many of us who have experienced mental health problems have found ourselves in this position. Sometimes, we could

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January 16, 2021 Eating Disorders

How to Support Somebody with an Eating Disorder

Often, when people around us are struggling with their mental health, we can feel at a loss as to what

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January 1, 2021 Eating Disorders

10 Eating Disorder Recovery Wins

Content warning: I do discuss some eating disordered behaviours in the following post. Since starting treatment for anorexia again in

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December 24, 2020 Eating Disorders

Eating Disorders and Recovery Guilt

I am at a weird part in my recovery right now. I feel like I am very much living alongside

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December 19, 2020 Eating Disorders

Not Everybody with an Eating Disorder…

Eating disorders are hugely misunderstood, and there are many, many misconceptions that are best ignorant and at worst deadly. I

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December 1, 2020 Eating Disorders

Managing Christmas with an Eating Disorder

A couple of years ago I wrote a post about how to support somebody who has an eating disorder at

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November 28, 2020 Eating Disorders

Do You Really Miss Your Eating Disorder?

Inevitably, there are going to be times when no matter how recovered I get, a small pang of missing my

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November 18, 2020 Eating Disorders

How to Separate Anorexia from Your Identity

Eating disorders are incredibly complex illnesses because they take over your entire life. Every waking minute consumed by anorexia is

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November 7, 2020 Eating Disorders

Grief and Eating Disorder Recovery

Recovery is a good thing, right? It’s something we put ourselves through torture to achieve and work at every day.

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October 24, 2020 Eating Disorders

Eating Disorders: Are You Sick Enough?

I don’t know anyone who has had an eating disorder of any description and not questioned whether they are sick

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October 7, 2020 Eating Disorders

Top Eating Disorder Recovery Instagram Accounts

Instagram can be a very toxic place, especially the ‘recovery’ community. I say that in quotations, because often what masks

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September 19, 2020 Mental Health and Wellbeing

How it Feels to be a Nurse and a Patient

Being a mental health nurse and a mental health patient at the same time can sometimes be a little confusing.

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August 27, 2020 Eating Disorders

Anorexia Symptoms Nobody Talks About

When asked to conjure up an idea of what anorexia is, most people would immediately say restricted eating and a

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July 29, 2020 Eating Disorders

The ‘War on Obesity’ and the Battle Against Anorexia

The news is pretty inescapable these days, and it’s likely you will by now be aware of the governments plans

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July 24, 2020 Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar Disorder is not a Punchline

It’s been a while since I’ve written a post about bipolar disorder. As is known by my regular readers, anorexia

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July 18, 2020 Eating Disorders / Mental Health and Wellbeing

10 Lessons I’ve Learnt in Recovery

Recovery is a rollercoaster and is one I have been a passenger on many times. I have always felt very

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July 4, 2020 Eating Disorders / Mental Health and Wellbeing

25 Affirmations to Improve Body Image

Anorexia recovery is so hard, and a huge part of that is due to trying to come to terms with

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June 19, 2020 Eating Disorders

Anorexia Recovery: Onwards and Upwards

This week I was discharged from the day patient programme, after successfully maintaining at my target weight for four weeks.

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June 13, 2020 Mental Health and Wellbeing

What Does it Mean to be Healthy?

We are bombarded with images of ‘health’ everywhere – social media, supermarkets, television, billboards.  Being healthy is wonderful, and I

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May 29, 2020 Eating Disorders

Healthy Body, Healthy Mind?

It happened. This week I officially reached my target weight. After six months of watching the scale climb and climb,

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