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 […]
The Only Way Out is Through
By Judy Krasna, F.E.A.S.T. Executive Director A dad from my area called me last week seeking advice on how to advance his daughter toward recovery. She has suffered with an eating disorder for the past 7 years, and she’s only fifteen. She’s in that familiar grey area between not being acutely ill yet not being […]
The Meaning of YMMV
By Judy Krasna, F.E.A.S.T. Executive Director Last week, my husband used the acronym “YMMV” in a group chat. I was hoping that someone else would ask what it stood for, because I hate admitting that I don’t know things. My internet slang is reasonable for my age, as long as you stick to shorthand that […]
Everyone Has A Seat At Our Table
By Judy Krasna, F.E.A.S.T. Executive Director I used to be a very black and white thinker. I don’t know whether it’s a function of age, or life experience, or this job, but I see a lot of shades of grey these days. I understand that while I may have an answer, it isn’t necessarily the answer. I see a […]
When You Can’t Go Back, Go Forward
By Judy Krasna, F.E.A.S.T Executive Director For many families, there are two distinct periods of time; there is the time before their child developed an eating disorder, and there is the time after. Despite how much parents want to go back to the “before” and return to their regularly scheduled lives, I don’t know if […]
How an Eating Disorder Can Sneak in the Door: Prevention Rather Than Cure
By Shirley When my daughter was 15 she was in a very small body, but she was also a competitive runner, and surrounded by her long-distance running peers, she didn’t appear to be underweight. Everyone always said how fabulous she looked and if I ever said that she looked too thin, family and friends would […]
Acceptance
By Angie When as carers, whether that be parents or siblings or any other family members, we start out on this journey with our loved ones, a lot of things change so quickly. So quickly, it is hard to comprehend at times. The downward spiral seems to be happening at a frightening rate and it’s […]
Quienes cuidan de un paciente con TCA ¿Necesitan herramientas o apoyo?
Thank you to our wonderful volunteer Sole Gonzalez for translating this blog post from the original English. Autora: Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh Una de las anteriores directoras ejecutivas de F.E.A.S.T., Belinda Caldwell, hizo recientemente una observación sobre la diferencia entre el tipo de “soporte” que buscan los padres en relación a un trastorno de la alimentación, comparado con otros […]
Dragon Slayer
By AJA Our daughter was 12 when she was diagnosed with Anorexia. At the tender age of 12, she was still playing with Barbies and American Girl dolls. It is hard to understand how an eating disorder can completely take over the life of an innocent little girl and her family. But it did. It […]
