It’s Not All About the Food is a practical, compassionate workbook for those navigating eating disorder treatment—whether you’re aiming for recovery, stabilisation, or simply the next doable step.
How to clothes shop in recovery
Clothes shopping can be filled with dread and tears in recovery. From body image concerns to sensory overload in shopping centres – its really choose your own adventure of what tips you over the edge. Our bodies will change in day to day life (e.g. bloating, hormone changes, hydration, activity levels) and our bodies change …
What is an eating disorder & why can’t ‘just eating’ fix it
An eating disorder is a serious mental health condition contributed to both by environmental and genetic factors. It effects around 4% of the population and symptoms among Australians are on the rise. Eating disorders include: Anorexia Nervosa Bulimia Nervosa Binge eating disorder Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) Other specified feeding or eating disorders (OSFED) …
Music & Meals
Meal times in eating disorder (ED) recovery can be an anxious stressful mess, both in the lead up and the aftermath. A recent study by Meneguzzo, P., Baron, E., Marchesin, S. et al. (2004) has revealed that background music during mealtimes helped maintain positive emotions in study participants pre and post meal, whilst silence during meal …
Exercise and Eating Disorders
Exercise can be an important part of healthy living when performed in healthy amounts in nourished bodies. It can strengthen muscle and bone, improve cardiovascular fitness, and promote psychological and mental wellbeing. However, when performed without appropriate fuelling from regular and adequate food and fluids it can be extremely damaging to the body, with consequences …
Severe and Enduring Eating Disorders
There is a tree that takes 5 to 10 years to flower, yet, it still needs watering, feeding and taken care of, its roots growing and absorbing nourishment underground over the years until ready. Sometimes we don’t immediately see the efforts of our hard work in treatment. The time spent at our psychologists office or …
RAVES – what the hell is it and how to use it?
Written by Robyn Dery APD RAVES is an acronym which describes a step by step process for learning to eat in a healthy way. RAVES stands for Regularity, Adequacy, Variety, Enjoyment and Spontaneity. It can be viewed as a priority system for learning to eat, a map for how to tackle a sometimes overwhelming issue. …
The persistent invalidation of an eating disorder
“I’m not that bad”
A Little Booklet About Eating Disorders
This booklet was developed as a carer resource for those supporting people with eating disorders. Our carers include health care professionals, support workers, educators, friends and family (both biological and chosen family).
Chewing the fat on weight stigma
Weight stigma refers to the discrimination towards individuals due to their body shape and size. Weight stigma is rife in the health care system, with health care professionals attached to outdated beliefs that weight is an indicator of health. Often we will be weighed in a GP office before (if ever) we are asked whether …