My Recovery from Chronic Adult Anorexia & A Call for Change in Eating Disorder Treatment
“I’m a successful, formidable woman, but PE still hurts.” “I’ve had a hard time forgiving my PE teacher for her cruel comments.” “It’s been 15 years and I’m not ready to talk about it.” “This topic still haunts me.” About a week ago, I posted a tweet and an Instagram picture asking women to share … Continue reading “The Line of Shame? – Get Over School PE”
I love fashion. I’ve only recently fully realised and owned this fact. Why should this be difficult? Because as I reached womanhood I was never sure if I had the right to own it. Maybe I wasn’t cool enough? Maybe I wasn’t pretty enough? Maybe I wasn’t thin enough? Fashion has always felt somehow exclusive. … Continue reading “#freeourbeauty: Own Our Fashion”
Getting dressed in the morning and making sure the lights are dim. Having my evening shower and closing my eyes as I run the sponge over a body – my body?? My arms are acceptable, but I can’t face my legs – my “problem area”. At one time their strength and curves felt like a … Continue reading “#Headlines/Bodylines – My First Body Positive Campaign”
This is my first post really reaching out beyond anorexia and eating disorder sufferers to women in general, encouraged by my recent thinking and blogging on the need to forge a bigger identity. Enough of making myself smaller! Poor body images affects so many women. Those of us who have been or should have been … Continue reading “#FreeOurBeauty: My Body Positive Manifesto”
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about identity and how important it is to both mental and physical recovery from eating disorders. When we feel trapped in the worst phases of an eating disorder, we can feel that we don’t have a clue who we are anymore; all we know is that we’re ill. I’m … Continue reading “Eating Disorders and Identity: From Recovery to Recovered and Beyond”
In response to Beat’s call to all its supporters to raise awareness this week by recording a short video on why we’re supporting their Why Wait? campaign, here’s my contribution as I’m nearing the end of My Sock It Tour Of London. Click on the link below to see my video 🙂 Hannah-EDAW2018 My fundraising tour … Continue reading “My Sock It Tour Of London – In Eating Disorders Awareness Week”
This is my first post focusing specifically on eating disorder treatment. Having spent years believing both treatment and full recovery weren’t accessible to me, and having never spoken to others about their treatment stories, I’ve felt unsure about how common my experiences have been. I’m still researching, speaking to other sufferers and recoverers and learning, … Continue reading “The GP Consultation – Best and Worst Practice”
Since beginning My Sock It Tour Of London fundraising for Beat, I’ve been thinking even more about the messages of the body positivity movement. My fundraising campaign is not only a logistical and meteorological challenge – running it alongside work and needing to be outdoors a lot in what seems to be a cold month; … Continue reading “I don’t have the perfect body…cos there ain’t no such thing!”
This blog post is a little different from usual! Firstly, it’s a video 🙂 And secondly, it’s a call for help in my forthcoming fundraising for Beat, the national eating disorders charity (https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/). Check out my video to find out more about My Sock It Tour of London. And please do visit my Just Giving … Continue reading “My Sock It Tour of London – Fundraising For Beat”
As a woman in my 30s recovering from anorexia, I have two fights on my hands – one against common social attitudes towards women as we get older, and the other dealing with anorexia as an ageing condition in itself. These are two fights I’m determined to win, and here’s the why and the how. … Continue reading “Anorexia and Ageing – My Recovery Fight Back”