Support for Eating Disorders and Mental Wellbeing
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“If we are panicked or overwhelmed by food – it doesn’t matter what we are choosing to put in our body it will not nourish us” I am eating all the right things. I am only eating “healthy”. Why am I still having all of these digestive concerns even when I eat only good things. …
It has been a long week; a very different week for most of us. Schedules have changed. Leaving the house isn’t an option. The things that normally keep us sane we may not be able to do. For some of us this could be a chance to get some much needed sleep, get caught up …
Is it an eating disorder or just normal food stress? That is the question. Many people have a preoccupation with food, but would never consider it an eating disorder. Maybe because it doesn’t fit the diagnostic criteria of an eating disorder. Maybe because it doesn’t seem severe enough. Maybe because this preoccupation or focus on …
Stress is a part of our daily lives – it is not something that we can avoid as it has become an ingrained part of our society in North America. However just because stress is part of our daily lives now that doesn’t mean that it is normal for our bodies to be in a …
What if there was a simple, cost effective way to nourish your body and soul each and every day? Luckily there is: TEA. Making a cup of tea has been something that has been used to soothe the mind, body and soul since the beginning of time. You might be familiar with classic black tea …
Because in my mind I am not okay Eating disorders are one of the most complex and challenging illnesses to both treat and experience. They can be close to invisible, hidden by a “healthy” looking exterior of perceived calm and collection or they can be as evident as an emaciated human being. Types of eating …
Change: the unpredictable journey through uncertainty There is one thing that we as human beings know and that is that life is full of uncertainty. As much as we as we try and create a path – a system – of how our journey through life is “supposed” to go, it is close to impossible …
To anyone struggling with mental illness and to all of us struggling to deal with our own minds day in and day out, I know there isn’t anything we can say to take the pain away, but now more than ever we can be there to SUPPORT each other. ALWAYS remember that you are never …