Every now and then I struggle with handling intense emotions. I will always advocate letting them out in a creative way. Over the last two weeks I have been working on this, I cannot tell you how therapeutic it has been.
Even in the darkness, there is still beauty to be seen 🌝

Please share with everyone you know :)

Hi all,
Those in the LGBTQIA+ community, who have previously struggled with eating difficulties and body image, who will be willing to share their experience and also have the opportunity to shape services! Can you DM me please ☺️💜

Journal club 📚 🧵

'Terminal Anorexia Nervosa (T-AN) may not be terminal,' reveals a new empirical study, challenging assumptions and offering hope.
Data over opinions! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Morgan Robison
@FSUPsychology #AnorexiaRecovery

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2024-…

In response to Joe Wicks saying #ADHD is caused by ultra-processed foods: Joe is a force for so much good but on this he's abjectly wrong. His point that a good diet can help almost everyone is right. But diet good, bad, or ugly won't make you have ADHD or make you not have ADHD.

It makes so much sense though! Lower dopamine than NTs + emotional regulation difficulties + executive dysfunction challenges + overwhelm (meltdown / shutdown) + rigid thinking + favouring routines + impulsivity. That's v simplistic but from there can deep dive into much more.

People don't choose to catch a cold

People don't choose to have cancer

People don't choose to be blind

People don't choose to break a leg

People also don't choose to have an eating disorder

The question here isn't whether or not it is right or wrong for somebody with anorexia to die by euthanasia but why is treatment for anorexia so poor, that people keep choosing to?

Oh wow 🤣🤦🏼‍♀️ didn't realise we were going back in frigging time.

Come on now! How ridiculous.

Teaching little one a bit of mindfulness today. We stood in the woods and briefly closed our eyes. We listened to the wind in the trees & the birds & focused on what we were feeling. We grounded ourselves then carried on playing 💜 hoping she stays in touch with her emotions!

It's LIVE! Let's Chat ARFID and Eating Disorders with Holly from FirstStepsED Episode 12 of the Let's Chat Derbyshire will be live, where we will have a great chat with Holly about what is Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID).
To listen linktr.ee/dccmhsp

🎉First Steps ED is 20 in 2024!🎉

Thank you to everyone who has supported us over the past 20 years.

Stay tuned in 2024 for a year of celebrations, and here’s to 20 years of success, growth, and transformation! 💙
#20Years #EDCharity

I've been trying to get my head around this, but simply can't. 😣

people who have undergone conversion therapy almost twice as likely to attempt suicide.
(UCLA 2020)

How is this awful 'therapy' still being debated. It is not therapy...... It is unethical and cruel.

Please consider taking part in this study on a highly relevant but under-researched subject in relation to eating disorders. The link to take part is here: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/leeds/thesis…
Please RT and share as well!

I've been having a good look, are there any studies done yet on the effects of long COVID in relation to eating disorders?

Also I am really looking forward to working with notts uni again next week, continuing their research into nature based interventions & ed treatment.