The Strength You Didn’t Know You Had
By Judy Krasna, F.E.A.S.T. Executive Director When people hear that my daughters are triplets, they always ask me how I managed with three babies. Truthfully, I don’t have an answer. Looking back on it, the first year was total insanity. No sleep for 9 months, non-stop feeding, changing, and soothing, and no downtime at all, […]
The One Who Always Gets Up
By Judy Krasna, F.E.A.S.T. Executive Director Two mothers are waiting outside of dance class. One mother says to the other, “Are you the mother of the girl who always falls?” The other mother responded, “No, I’m the mother of the one who always gets up.” I don’t know the source of this, but I saw […]
Dear Family
By AJA Dear Family, Today, your child was diagnosed with an eating disorder. Today, a doctor that you’ve never met told you that your child will die without treatment. Today, that same doctor told you that your child isn’t well enough to go home. Today, you learned that your child is sick. So sick that […]
Navigating Ramadan with an Eating Disorder
Post-Recovery Struggles: And You May Ask Yourself, How Did I Get Here?
By Josie Brown Imagine waking up in a foreign body. Every step feels disjointed, clunky. The way your clothes fall along your torso looks wrong, and every time you catch a glimpse of yourself in the mirror, tears well up in the corners of your eyes because you have no idea what it is you […]
When a Burden Becomes a Privilege
By Selina Elison On a promising day, my daughter would go to school and I would be alone in the house. I would make a coffee, stand at my large kitchen windows, and stare into the trees on the neighbouring property. I could never recall for how long I stood there, paranoid that I might […]
Hope and Powerful Words of Support
By Anonymous I had one major goal as a mother and that was to raise both my daughters with positive body image. I literally did all the “right” things according to the professionals. But it wasn’t enough. As is the story of so many, all it takes is a certain set of conditions to align […]
Hope for Parents
By Amy It has been almost 2 years ago since this mama was hit by the anorexia freight train. I knew something wasn’t right with my 13-year-old daughter that spring. She was losing weight, fast. Her moods were more than a typical teenager. Her pediatrician, at the time, had us take her to the emergency […]
Surviving in Two Worlds
By: AJA I envied you, outside world. Free of an eating disorder. Unaware of the chaos it can cause. Your world is so carefree. Your world is so simple. Your world had been mine, not so long ago. But, when my daughter was diagnosed with anorexia, I was thrown into the eating disorder world. A […]
A Message of Hope
By Anonymous Editor’s Note: This was a comment on one of our blog posts; since it was already intended to be viewed by the public on our website, it was adapted as its own blog post. I am 31 years old and have been suffering with anorexia since I was seven. Reading Dr. Gaudiani‘s article […]
