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Lived Experiences of Eating Disorders

Calling all health professionals! This Eating Disorder Awareness Week, our partner, East London NHS Foundation Trust share resources on lived experiences of eating disorders. You’ll learn what the textbooks don’t tell you! Such as ways NHS services can support recovery and better understand service users’ experiences and needs. Lived Experience Guide This guide is a snapshot […]
Lived Experiences of Eating Disorders

Lived Experiences of Eating Disorders

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Calling all health professionals! This Eating Disorder Awareness Week, our partner, East London NHS Foundation Trust share resources on lived experiences of eating disorders. You’ll learn what the textbooks don’t tell you! Such as ways NHS services can support recovery and better understand service users’ experiences and needs.

Lived Experience Guide

This guide is a snapshot of how adults in East London have navigated experiences of uncertainty while seeking support for disordered eating. By sharing their stories, ‘experts by experience’ seek to challenge the ‘eating disorder stereotypes’ which can so often stop us from feeling we deserve help. We also reflect on the many different meanings of ‘recovery’ and the ways in which you can make this feel relevant and realistic to your own life.

Lived Experience Webinar

Our partner, East London Eating Disorder Service, invites you and your team to join them at an online session to mark Eating Disorders Awareness Week (EDAW) 2024, on Wednesday 28 February at 1:00pm.

During the session, Experts by Experience will be discussing what it feels like to seek help and navigate the healthcare system as someone with an eating disorder. We’ll be looking beyond the stereotypes to explore questions such as:

  • What does the ‘eating disorder identity’ feel like?
  • What does ‘recovery’ really mean to us, beyond clinical definitions?
  • Who is served by eating disorder services – and how can we make them more accessible for everyone?

Beyond weight, shape and counting numbers, we want to explore who ‘eating disorder patients’ really are, what we need – and how NHS services can support us to build a meaningful life by expanding our definitions of recovery. This session is open to anyone who wants to better understand how to support patients struggling with disordered eating across the healthcare system.

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