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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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May 9, 2020 Eating Disorders

I Miss You, Anorexia

This probably feels like a strange post to write, especially when comparing it to something like this which I wrote

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May 2, 2020 Eating Disorders

Hidden Challenges in Eating Disorder Recovery

Eating disorder recovery is hard. It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done. The most challenging things? Weight gain and eating more.

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April 25, 2020 Mental Health and Wellbeing

How to Make the Most of Virtual Mental Health Care

These are strange times we are living in. Health and social care services all across the country (and the world)

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April 20, 2020 Mental Health and Wellbeing

30 Things I Want to Do Post-Lockdown

Lockdown life is hard, amirite? I know that I am incredibly fortunate to be in the situation that I am

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April 15, 2020 Eating Disorders

Pushing Past Quasi-Recovery

Over the last few weeks, as I approach my target weight, I have been getting frustrated with myself that things

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April 4, 2020 Eating Disorders

Anorexia Recovery: Cara vs Yoghurt

I’m putting a content warning here. As always, there are no numbers: no weights, no calories, no clothes sizes etc.

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April 2, 2020 Eating Disorders

Coping with an Eating Disorder During a Pandemic

Here’s a blog post I never thought I’d write. Let’s be honest, the last few weeks have been pretty crazy,

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March 7, 2020 Eating Disorders

The Anorexia Recovery Rollercoaster

Anorexia recovery is confusing. If you head over to Instagram and search any of the recovery hashtags, you’ll be inundated

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March 2, 2020 Eating Disorders

Eating Disorders Q&A

As many of you will know, raising awareness about mental health in general, but particularly eating disorders, is something I

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February 23, 2020 Eating Disorders

How Anorexia Tricks You

Anorexia is a wily minx. It’s incredibly good at tricking you. But the more years that pass that its presence

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February 17, 2020 Eating Disorders

Day Patient Update: Checkpoint

As of this week, I’m approximately halfway through day patient. I’ve gained over half of my weight target and my

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January 30, 2020 Mental Health and Wellbeing

Relapse and Mental Health Advocacy

Being a ‘mental health advocate’ is weird. Sometimes it can feel like I’m not doing it right. When I have

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January 19, 2020 Eating Disorders

A Week With Me: Day Patient Edition

I’ve done a couple of these before and they’ve been well received, and since my life is pretty different since

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January 17, 2020 Eating Disorders

Anorexia Recovery: Two Steps Forward

This week, I feel like a different person to the one who wrote this post. I’ve had a mixed week,

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January 2, 2020 Eating Disorders

My Recovery Journey: I Am Stuck

I feel so stuck. I have functioned with an eating disorder for a long time and I don’t understand why

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December 19, 2019 Eating Disorders

Recovery is a Full Time Job

I’m adding a content warning to this post. There’s no mention of my weight or numbers but I do touch

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December 11, 2019 Eating Disorders

Calories Aren’t The Enemy

So today, in the news, there are a lot of stories with headlines that look a little like this. I

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November 17, 2019 Blogging / Mental Health and Wellbeing

Top Tips for Starting a Mental Health Blog

Last year I went to Time To Change’s Story Camp and did a talk about how to create a mental

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October 25, 2019 Eating Disorders

Anorexia and the Unicorn Syndrome

Unicorn Syndrome: A phenomenon often seen in people with anorexia who feel that they are the exception to the rules

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October 22, 2019 Eating Disorders

Brain Dump: Starting Anorexia Treatment

Today I had the call. The call I have been desperate to get yet never quite ready for. Six weeks

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October 19, 2019 Eating Disorders

I Am Done: Breaking Up with Anorexia

I’m done. I am so, so tired of this illness, and I am done. As I write this I know

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October 13, 2019 Eating Disorders

The Unglamorous Side of Anorexia

Anorexia is an illness that still to this day, despite how dangerous it is and how many people die from

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September 15, 2019 Mental Health and Wellbeing

How to Become a Mental Health Nurse

This month marks two years since I qualified as a mental health nurse, and I’m almost at my 10 years

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August 16, 2019 Eating Disorders

Dear Weight Watchers

Dear Weight Watchers, I became aware of you as a small child. You were spoken of frequently in our house,

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August 6, 2019 Mental Health and Wellbeing

#IAmNotDangerous

The last week, with all the news covering the three mass shootings in America, has been difficult for those of

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July 21, 2019 Mental Health and Wellbeing

Me and My Secret Anxiety

I’m putting a content warning on this post because it touches on some sensitive topics such as self harm and

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July 14, 2019 Eating Disorders

The Paradox of Eating Disorder Services

As some of you may know from Instagram and my previous post, I had an anorexia relapse starting a couple

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June 23, 2019 Mental Health and Wellbeing

My Mental Health Heroes

There are a few people out there in the world who touch my heart and inspire me to do what

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Another challenge down! 🍩
It’s Eating Disorders Awareness Week this week.
With eating disorders awareness week coming up next week, this feels very relevant.
I am actually wearing something other than trackies or leggings today and I feel so much better for it - featuring my amazing new mirror sticker from my friend Libby! Plus the sun is shining and I think it’s going to be a good day.
Today started off pretty badly - the worst it has in a long time in fact.
I haven’t shared an outfit post with you guys for ages.
Just stopping by to remind you that you don’t have to lose weight just because lockdown is lifting - June 21st isn’t a deadline to hit a target BMI by.
I had a salted caramel hot cross bun with biscoff for breakfast which was very nice - I’m trying to experience all the hot cross buns the world has on offer because I missed out for so long!
Completed this weeks challenge! 🍬

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