Regular Guest Blogger, Mollie, shares her feelings and learnings from her eating disorder recovery.
Guest Blogs
To our tough bros: Guest Blogger
Inspired by Orri’s ‘Remember Your Bros’ campaign, for Eating Disorders Awareness Week, a member of the eating disorder recovery community shares their hopeful poem.
A woman recovering from Orthorexia: Guest Blogger
Eating disorder recovery is hard work. A raw and honest account of recovery from orthorexia, from a Guest Blogger. Go gently.
A poem for Anorexia Recovery: Guest Blogger
Our Regular Guest Blogger uses poetry to express his learnings and emotions throughout his recovery from Anorexia. In this poem, he explores family dynamics with an eating disorder.
8 Ways to Manage Food When Going Off to University – Guest Blogger
Trauma-informed nutritionist and previous guest of Orri’s Instagram Lives, Kaysha Thomas, shares her specialist advice on how students can manage food upon return, or arrival, at university.
Preparing for Christmas, with Hannah from Full of Beans podcast
Christmas can heighten pressure to perhaps ‘be recovered’ and ‘well’ at the dinner table. To help you prepare for Christmas, we spoke with Hannah, previous Orri team member and founder of Full of Beans podcast, to share her key tips.
Choosing a life without an eating disorder meant confronting why I needed it in the first place – Guest Blogger
James Downs, prominent mental health campaigner and expert by experience in eating disorders, generously shares his thoughts and experience as our latest Orri Guest Blogger. Life is supposed to be a journey from one happy event to the next, right? The glossy side 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...
Eating Disorder Recovery, Neurodivergence and Disability, by Emily Nuttall: Blog 3 Autism and Anorexia – Guest Blogger
The third entry of her Guest Blogger series, Emily Nuttall explores how specialised treatment for her anorexia and autism was integral in her sustaining recovery. Our guest blogger shares some personal accounts which some may find difficult to read, particularly if...
Eating Disorder Recovery, Neurodivergence and Disability, by Emily Nuttall: Blog 2 – Guest Blogger
Second guest blog from mental health campaigner, Emily Nuttall. Here, she poignantly shares her mental health struggles and lived experience of an eating disorder. Our guest blogger shares some personal accounts which some may find difficult to read, particularly if...
Eating Disorder Recovery, Neurodivergence and Disability, by Emily Nuttall: Blog 1 – Guest Blogger
Mental health campaigner, Emily Nuttall, shares her lived experience of an eating disorder in a series of guest blogs. Her first entry explores her birth story and diagnosis of cerebral palsy. Our guest blogger shares some personal accounts which some may find...
Dear Parent and Carer of an Eating Disorder Sufferer – Guest Blogger
A Guest Blogger uses her lived experience of an eating disorder to write a compassionate blog to those supporting their loved ones. “I hope that this can be a voice for them too, letting you know what they need from you right now…” First off, I want to say that I...