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For Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Charlynn Small and Mazella Fuller, the co-editors of the groundbreaking new book, Treating Black Women with Eating Disorders, A Clinicians Guide, tell Orri about their reasons for coming together to write this trailblazing book. This book...
Each week, we ask our Orri Instagram community for their food and recovery questions to put to our specialist dietetics team. Here are their latest answers. 1) Why am I craving chocolate biscuits so much? Cravings in recovery are not uncommon. They...
We know that it can be hard to hold onto hope in eating disorder recovery. It can be a long journey, made up of cumulative small steps forward, and some days are tougher than others. However, somehow you keep going,...
When someone is suffering from an eating disorder, it’s hard to imagine that it’s not about the food. Here, Orri’s team explain why food is not the problem, rather, it’s a symptom of underlying causes.
Our Senior Psychotherapist, Romy, delves into the topic of sex, intimacy and relationships in recovery, and how we support our clients around these themes in treatment. What’s the difference between sex and intimacy? What do we mean by intimacy? Covid-19 and...
A mother, an Olympic hopeful, a medical student, a waitress and a writer. In a recent article, BBC News asked: “What do the lives and deaths of five women tell us about how anorexia is managed and treated?” It is heartbreaking to...
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...
What does it mean to be safe in a post-covid world? This is a question we have to ask ourselves collectively, as a society and treatment service, and individually, as people battling with an eating disorder. The pandemic challenged so...
You are not alone. Eating disorders are complex mental illnesses that begin in the mind and often severely impact the body. They do not discriminate, meaning that anyone can develop an eating disorder at any point in their life. This is because anyone can go through the different life...
The importance of early intervention. Early intervention means getting help and support as soon as possible, when you need it. The sooner you get help, the quicker you are likely to recover and without relapse. Research tells us that people should be...
People with eating disorders can often struggle to tolerate uncomfortable emotions, such as anger. It may be that their experience of anger has been really negative – perhaps anger was the theme of an uncomfortable childhood, maybe it has been...
Who are specialist day programmes for? Our specialist day programmes are intensive, 6-week programmes of treatment for those at different points in their recovery journey. Treatment takes place during the day, and our approach treats all aspects of the mind and body through group...
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Further support
Looking for more ways to engage with the eating disorder community? Discover more helpful resources designed to support you on your journey to recovery, such as our charity partner, Beat, and other accessible resources.
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