To empower girls to overcome the power of an eating disorder and create self-like and self-worth. To help girls find a sense of purpose, confidence and happiness.
The inner voices of anorexia and bulimia whisper that you'll never be happy until you lose weight, that your worth is measured by how you look, that you can gain control over who you are by having control over eating or how much food stays in you. Your inner diet may tell you to be on constant diets or to exercise more than a healthy level - this might not be termed anorexia or bulimia but these are also signs of an unhealthy relationship with who you are.
Real happiness and self-esteem come from being comfortable with who you are-and that is only possible with having a healthy attitude to your body and how you nourish it. With treatment, support, and self-help strategies, you can overcome your eating disorder and gain true self-confidence.
Websites Offering Support:
Beat
supports anyone affected by eating disorders or difficulties with food, weight and shape.
Eating Disorders Support
is an organisation providing help and support to anyone affected by an eating problem such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa or binge eating disorder. It also provides help for those who are caring for or supporting someone with an eating disorder.
National Centre for Eating Disorders
provides information on eating disorders and information on ways and sources to help overcome it.
Books on this subject:
8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder
A unique and personal look into treatment of eating disorders, written by a therapist and her former patient, now a therapist herself.
Interweaving personal narrative with the perspective of their own therapist-client relationship, their insights bring an unparalleled depth of awareness into just what it takes to successfully beat this challenging and seemingly intractable clinical issue.
Chasing Silhouettes
is the story of how eating disorders pervade all homes—even the seemingly perfect ones. A unique resource, it addresses the whole of the illness: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual, providing shocking insight into the disordered eater’s mind. In addition to a stirring personal narrative, it includes advice from some of the nation’s top eating disorder experts, sample prayers for when yours run out, as well as stories of others who’ve battled—and overcome—eating disorders.
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