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I want to talk about something that’s come up for me multiple times recently, both in my personal life and professional life (and if I
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I want to talk about something that’s come up for me multiple times recently, both in my personal life and professional life (and if I

Do you have a child (of any age) you suspect may be developing or living with an eating disorder? Do you often find yourself uncertain

Sometimes people ask me why I think I developed anorexia nervosa and how it is possible to have that degree of willpower to not eat

Professor Arthur Crisp said it best when he said – “saying you understand anorexia because you’ve dieted a few times is like saying you know

There were a lot of things I was told were going to happen during recovery. Actually, that’s an outright lie. I wish there were a

The list of things I gave a shot in the hopes that by doing them it would bring me closer to recovery from anorexia nervosa

Have you ever dismissed something as probably just the “placebo effect?” It’s only relatively recently that my understanding of the placebo effect has shifted from

When I was sick with anorexia nervosa there seemed to be nothing people could say that was right. Even compliments or things said with the

This morning I had an epiphany! I used to have a lot of these, and I feel like lately they haven’t been happening nearly as

A couple of weeks ago I shared a short blog on 3 Things I Miss About Anorexia so today I wanted to balance it out

I wish I could tell you in a way you could understand just how incredible it feels to get home from work, sit on the

Yes, you read that correctly. As terrible as living with anorexia nervosa was there were parts of it that were not all bad. I am

A couple of weeks ago I had the honour of being a part of delivering an eating disorders training day for doctors on the General

Welcome to the wild side. If you thought living with the eating disorder was hard and you’re feeling fed up, exhausted and ready for recovery

Life can change in an instant and it can also change imperceptibly slowly so much so that at the time you don’t even know it

The use of clinical hypnotherapy and principles from the field of clinical hypnotherapy are becoming increasingly widely used in health care and psychology. This is

You could say living with anorexia for almost 15 years opened my eyes to a thing or two about what it means to be stuck,

It is widely accepted that what we eat has a large impact on our physical health. There’s not many of us would argue otherwise. However,

When I initially sat down to write this blog it was titled “3 Reasons I Didn’t Recover Earlier”. Pretty quickly those 3 reasons became 5

Entry 1. I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand. ~ Confucius Entry 2. Immediately after getting back

As I sit here in my gorgeous little office reflecting on the life, I lived with anorexia nervosa it seems absolutely absurd that I could

2012 Entry 1. And just like that I’d one it. Again. You might think it ludicrous to claim ignorance of what was happening, and I

In the early years of my recovery from anorexia nervosa (long before I knew I’d ever look back and speak about them as “the early

I never intended to write this and especially not to share but every time I sat to start a blog no other thoughts and words

In the 7 years I spent at uni (plus a few more because it was punctuated with time off for both the incredible highs of

I sat motionless in the final moments of the summer sun’s glow and watched one tiny person after another paddle, stand, glide along a wave

How many times have you said or heard someone else speak a variation of the phrase “I know I shouldn’t but…” or “I know I

Looking back on the years I lived with anorexia nervosa there are a few things which stand out as utterly ruling my existence. Today they

Over the years I’ve worked with many people who are on the spectrum as well as the partners of people on the spectrum. I’ve also

A couple of weeks ago an event pushed me to curiously search for the little stash of things I’ve kept which have been given to

What Is It? Rheumatoid arthritis is an inflammatory condition which affects the joints of your hands, knees and ankles but sometimes it also has harmful

I raced from pebble to pebble, exhausted, confused, alone. Desperately seeking another and another and another. I wanted the smooth ones. My body craved for

Recovery is petrifying. Recovery is confusing. Recovery is overwhelming. One moment you’re all in and the next you’re all out. Plus, everything in between. And

When I was living with anorexia nervosa, I was told countless times that I had been sick for such a long time that my brain

Anorexia nervosa is considered one of the most difficult psychiatric disorders to treat1. Another way of saying this is that anorexia nervosa is one of

When people find out I write a blog on mindset and nutrition they often offer me suggestions on topics to write about that they’d like

What I thought I was going to a hypnotherapist for: She would somehow magically make me no longer afraid to eat. What actually happened: I

Not so long ago there was someone in my life who was very important to me. He was very different from me. Where I saw

While what we eat is by no means the be all and end all of health and happiness there are ways we can eat to

Would you believe it if I were to tell you that approximately 1 million Australians live with an eating disorder? It’s true. Of all the