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.
Guest Blogs
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...
10 ways on how to cope when your body changes in eating disorder recovery, with Cara Lisette – Guest Blogger
Practising self-compassion and self-acceptance can be tricky when navigating body changes in eating disorder recovery. Our Guest Blogger, Cara Lisette, shares her tips on what she found helpful in her experience of recovery and weight restoration. Changes to your body...
The layers of stigma as a man with an eating disorder – Guest Blogger, for Men’s Health Week
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...
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 tiered, who cannot see a way out, who was hurt again, who was shot...