We are right in the midst of student season. As we type, people are moving away or establishing themselves in an odd, virtual student world that no one quite knows how to navigate.With new environments and new schedules, comes new routines. For those in recovery from...
Katrina White
5 Ways to Keep Your Recovery on Track
Recovery is, as many people already know, a long journey – but it is not the journey you expect it to be. In recovery, you don’t tread the same path throughout the duration of your journey – every day that you commit to recovery you commit to new challenges and, with...
COVID-19 Health and Safety Information.
We understand that some clients may be anxious about coming into in person treatment, especially if they have never visited our London centre before. We want to reassure everyone that we have done everything we can to make Orri safe, for both our clients and our...
My Experience With Suicidal Thoughts – Guest Blogger
For World Suicide Prevention Day, Lizzie, an expert by experience and Orri Guest Speaker, shares her experience of suicide in eating disorder recovery. A note from Orri: We recognise that this may be difficult for some of our readers, so we are going to ask you...
Checking In: Grounding Exercises for Uncertainty and Fear
There’s something in therapy called a “check-in”. A check-in takes place at the beginning of therapy groups and works to focus people in the here and now. You go around, one by one, sharing how you’re feeling in the moment. The check-in allows people to share their...
Exams and results: taking steps to tolerating difficult emotions
For those receiving exam results, we want to take a moment to acknowledge the fact that this is most likely an important time for you, and how, in our response to “important times”, we can sometimes feel tripped up by overwhelming emotions. Whatever your results are,...
“And I said to my body, I want to be your friend.” – On Friendship
It’s International Friendship Day and we’d like to pose a question…are you a friend to yourself?The saying goes that you can’t properly love someone until you love yourself. For those reading that are suffering with an eating disorder, you may be familiar with a...
“And I said to my body, I want to be your friend.” – On Friendship
It’s International Friendship Day and we’d like to pose a question…are you a friend to yourself? The saying goes that you can’t properly love someone until you love yourself. For those reading that are suffering with an eating disorder, you may be familiar with a...
Lockdown lessons and affirmations for this latest chapter
Let’s take a moment to recognise something important: you’re here, reading this blog, having made it through lockdown to (almost) the other side. For many of us it’s been tumultuous. We experienced shock, fear, disbelief, calm, quiet, anger, confusion, anxiety,...
Orri’s Response: ‘I was terrified to put on weight’ – the ‘culture of fear’ in British gymnastics (BBC News)
Pavier, 24, told BBC Sport how she developed bulimia when she was 14 and that she retired three years later after becoming "a shell of a person". It is heartbreaking to read of the abuse suffered by Nicole Pavier and her peers and we fully commend the independent...
4 Things To Do As Lockdown Lifts
As things begin to open up, the expectation of springing back to normality is palpable, but what if lockdown life was actually peaceful? And the prospect of returning to “normality” really daunting? I’m writing this on rather a gloomy, wet day. A day that seems out of...
Life with an adult-onset eating disorder – Guest Blogger
Our first guest blogger, Emily, shares her experience with an adult-onset eating disorder… I’m now 33 and in early 2019 I started getting more comments on my body and what I looked like than I think I ever had in the nearly 32 years up to that point. Wow, you’ve...