Adam Fare, expert by experience, kindly shares his thoughts and personal experience of navigating eating disorder treatment as a male. “Men get eating disorders too”. Words which have been used a lot, but with little real change or action. For Men’s Health Week, I...
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Occupational Therapy Intervention in Eating Disorder Treatment
Orri’s specialist Occupational Therapy team held a webinar for healthcare professionals earlier this month. The event explored the occupational therapy processes and interventions in eating disorder recovery. Featuring as the third event in Orri’s CPD series, the...
Orri’s Director of Research & Development, Dr Paul Robinson, is Clinical Advisor to the newly launched MEED guidance for recognising and managing medical emergencies in eating disorders.
The new MEED guidance is a welcome commitment to preventing deaths from eating disorders and ensuring that recovery becomes possible for all. The guidance, supported by project group Clinical Advisor and Orri Director of Research & Development, Dr Paul...
Orri’s Dietetics team answer your food recovery questions
Did you have a food recovery question for our specialist Dietetics team? We may have answered it below. 1) I really struggle with drinking enough fluids (mainly with water). Do you have any tips? Just as regular eating, regular hydration is also important...
Feeling lonely? Here’s what you can do to feel connected.
This years’ Mental Health Awareness Week is looking at loneliness – something pertinent to the experience of living with an eating disorder. We’re joining the UK’s biggest conversation on mental health to ensure no one feels alone in their experience of their illness....
A note to lonely you, a poem by our client
Inspired by this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week, a previous client has written a poem about loneliness and shares her hope for those in eating disorder recovery. To you whose heart aches, who is tired, who cannot see a way out, who was hurt again, who was shot...
Meet the Eating Disorder Associate: Layla
Layla is a new member of Orri’s Eating Disorder Associates (EDAs) team. She supports clients and the clinicians in her day-to-day, for the in person programme. Read our blog on what brought her to work in eating disorders and how she is finding the role so far. Can...
4 things to hold onto during the exam period
If you are in the midst of exam preparation and revising, you more than anyone can understand the pressure that can be felt at this time. Whether you are in your GCSE’s, studying your A-Levels or at university, the assessment period is often filled with high anxiety...
Change the Story, with Hope Virgo: the intentions behind the campaign – Guest Blogger
Hope Virgo, multi award-winning mental health campaigner and expert by experience in eating disorders, is our latest Guest Blogger. Below, she shares her intentions and her ‘hope’ for the #ChangeTheStory campaign, and discusses what she believes need to change in...
Orri and Wednesday’s Child, for Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week – Guest Blogger
For this year’s Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week, we’d like to draw attention to the experience of having an eating disorder whilst being pregnant or having just given birth, and the unique complexities associated with this stage of life. In effort to widen this...
Coping with Easter, with an eating disorder
The Easter holiday is an opportunity to celebrate the changing of seasons and take the long bank holiday weekend to reconnect with our loved ones. But for those living with an eating disorder, Easter can represent multiple challenges. Today we’re taking a look at...
It’s not a relapse, it’s a lapse. How you can get back on track with your eating disorder recovery.
If you are reading this blog in the midst of an eating disorder relapse, know that your experience is completely valid and that relapse in eating disorder recovery is very normal. Below, we offer ways on how you can be kind to yourself during these moments, and still...