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- Category: Poetry
- Category: Anorexia
- An eating disorder fuels a toxic relationship with self
- Understanding the healing power and teaching potential of daily diary-writing
- Grandmother’s diaries inspire a novel eating disorder story about childhood and hope
- Here’s to being imperfectly perfect and perfectly imperfect
- Sense of self and body image in anorexia nervosa: Call for participants
- The healing power of children in adult eating disorder recovery
- Using a writing mentor to support recovery from an eating disorder
- Rule-defiant poetry cuts to the core of an eating disorder
- My journey as a performing artist with anorexia nervosa
- When grief, dissociation, keeping busy, addiction and a farewell collide
- Eating disorder recovery fight inspires researcher to develop parent education course
- Rebuilding an identity is part of eating disorder recovery
- Category: COVID-19 pandemic
- Category: Dear Diary
- Benefits and risks in writing and publicly sharing your eating disorder story
- Tips to help you to self-care at home
- ‘What can I do?’ the COVID-19 pandemic
- Being true to yourself and others through writing
- Christmas message from The Diary Healer
- More Medicare support for Australians with eating disorders
- ‘A difficult daughter’ finds healing through writing
- Transforming lived-experience into peer support – an innovation in eating disorder recovery
- ‘To run you have to eat’ – how self-determination set Audry free from anorexia
- Focus eating disorder recovery on regaining identity, not the scale
- Call for compassionate care in treating eating disorders
- Researchers identify first genes linked to anorexia nervosa
- Euthanasia and Eating Disorders
- Traumatic treatment for people with eating disorders must stop
- Using the narrative to resist and break the chains of Anorexia Nervosa
- IBS is not BS – recovery really can be a pain in the guts
- Family and a village of care are vital for eating disorder recovery
- Men and boys get eating disorders too – Sam wants you to know
- Starving for Eating Disorder answers: Why We Can’t Afford to Wait
- Eating disorders are serious and we need to keep spreading this message
- Destigmatization of Eating Disorders Can’t Wait
- Raising the alarm on eating disorders: carers need care, too
- Eating disorder documentary on four-year search for peace will inspire
- The tragic cost when Dad has an eating disorder and his child does too
- Ardent health professionals promote eating disorder care in São Paulo
- The deadly cost of diversity in accessing Eating Disorder treatment
- Gut issues and eating disorders are a painful but treatable pair
- It’s time to be visible, be loud, be a nuisance about eating disorders
- How two turtles and a parrot are teaching me to love my life
- How animals help us to heal and find meaning and purpose in life
- Researchers seek parents’ help to understand eating disorder recovery
- Putting fire in the belly of eating disorder recovery services
- Recognition that ‘experience’ experts can help ED recovery
- A story of love and acceptance, and a foreign exchange
- Using diary-writing as a self-help tool to connect and heal
- Eating disorder recovery involves eating properly: Add a dash of feelings, faith, family and friends to meal time
- Lessons from a little boy who cannot speak – yet
- Sharing stories from inside out gives ED nowhere to hide
- Supporting friends and family with eating disorders
- A reflection on the journey of choosing to believe in hope
- Peeling the onion: Losing the layers of my eating disorder
- Moving on from an eating disorder with help from diary writing
- Binge-writing: The role of narrative in my eating disorder recovery
- Writing your way to self-care and self-freedom in 2019
- A holiday message of hope for those with eating disorders
- Perceived utility of genetic counseling for individuals with eating disorders
- Australians celebrate: Eating disorders become a Medicare item
- The value of diary writing goes far beyond personal use
- Why self-care is my number one job
- Turning letter-writing into a self-calming conversation
- Using journaling to recognize self-harming behaviors and reclaim your own voice
- Cultivating compassion for oneself through letter-writing: A welcome and helpful strategy for people with eating disorders
- Is anorexia planning its revenge? The reality of recovery
- When a food binge can be helpful
- Factors to consider when you feel ready to write your story
- Getting Better Bite by Bite – in English, German and now Korean
- Secrets are an eating disorder’s best friend
- Forget the scales, gaining weight as a person is the real marker in eating disorder recovery
- Beware of the challenges of the Internet for adults with eating disorders
- The home that really matters is the one I carry within
- Is food the problem? How to support someone with Binge Eating Disorder (BED)
- “I’m sorry you’re going through that, but you know you’re not alone?”
- “Aunt June, you are the problem in our family:” Using the journal to dispel stigma, inside and out
- How diary excerpts became the voice in a book about eating disorders
- Securing trust when writing a non-fiction story – feeling safe enough to share innermost thoughts and feelings
- Mapping the tides of our life through story-telling
- How caring for a sick child inspired a mother to write her first book
- So you intend to write your life story “One day”?
- The innovative “Plate-by-Plate Approach” offers guidance for parents nourishing their child through an eating disorder
- My brother in Croatia has an eating disorder
- Going about the daily business of reducing eating disorder shame
- Confronting binge eating in eating disorder recovery
- Intersectionality and eating disorders: Recognizing the impact on the LGBTQIA* community
- Stigma in eating disorders is a serious social justice issue
- Listening to the many voices of experience and digging deep within holds key to reducing stigma
- As a health professional, I felt ashamed and thought I was not sick enough to have an eating disorder
- Breaking eating disorder stigma starts at home – let’s start by addressing the stereotypes
- Can you really have an eating disorder if you look healthy?
- Breaking the eating disorder stigma: What’s white and skinny got to do with it?
- Research call for voices of experience to forge patient-led recovery model for eating disorders in Victoria, Australia
- Obliterating parent stigma in eating disorders
- Five key actions to curb eating disorders in Italy
- Dealing with an eating disorder’s double dose of stigma – from public and self
- The cost of hiding an eating disorder and pretending you are okay
- How writing a fictional story is helping Matt kick goals in real life
- Making your diary your personal advocate
- Is your diary your friend or foe?
- Sharing our story can be a powerful antidote to shame and insecurity
- How a diary can become your best friend when healing from an eating disorder
- The cycle of abuse and how I found my way out of it
- The dark, dark secret that makes an eating disorder so hard to beat, and treat
- What being diagnosed with an “old woman” disease taught me about my eating disorder
- Finding my “healthy me” voice: A story of hope and recovery from an eating disorder
- So you feel normal and in control? Beware of the mask of an eating disorder
- Why self-care must come first when caring for a person with an eating disorder – and how writing can help
- Inside Family Based Treatment for eating disorders: One mother’s experience
- How I wrote my way out of ED’s darkness
- The tale of two mothers and the illness that starves children and families
- Why write a diary?
- A grandson’s letter: Breaking the inter-generational power of an eating disorder
- My Christmas wish: Freedom from eating disorders
- Our lives have many stories…which can give hope
- Writing as therapy for eating disorders: A self-help tool for your child and yourself
- From inside the farm gate: Rural women’s stories of thriving and surviving
- Can journaling help you heal from your eating disorder?
- Listening to the patient’s narrative can turn “hopeless” into “hope”
- My friend the diary (part 3): Using your diary as a “get to know me” power tool
- My friend the diary (part 2)
- My friend the diary (part 1)
- New research in exercise and eating disorders
- Seven tips to help you navigate family gatherings this holiday season
- Toxic training: How to recognize the signs of an athlete in trouble
- The story behind the lilac ribbon: How a father’s courage has inspired a national campaign for better eating disorder care
- Listening: The next step in understanding Severe and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa
- When personal loss opens the door to an eating disorder
- Severe and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa – should we ever give up?
- Treating the trifecta – trauma, eating disorders and substance use disorder
- Love knows no boundaries in recovery
- It’s my party and I’ll be who I want to
- Bringing the voice of eating disorder experience to the clinicians’ table
- Family conflict in eating disorders and recovery
- Silencing the voice of an eating disorder: Listening to my true self
- To The Bone – What are you really looking for?
- Do you feel ready to share your eating disorder story with others?
- Climbing the mountain to freedom of self: I had to believe I deserved better
- No matter how I look, inside I am still Annie, a beautiful orange butterfly!
- Breaking the engagement with ED, the secretive, obsessive lover
- Victory over Ed: All eating disorder patients deserve treatment, support and hope
- Tried And True, Old Yet New
- When a parent accepts that their child has an eating disorder
- Eating disorder recovery: Finding happiness in relationships
- Leaning into yourself: Abandoning fear and embracing your soul’s calling
- Why this Mom is championing World Eating Disorder Healthcare Rights
- Sharing my eating disorder story with my children
- When trust is shattered in childhood: A message about the healing power of friendship
- Entering mainstream: Building a relationship with self and others after ‘Ed’
- When an eating disorder makes three in a relationship: the impact
- The powerful role of advocacy and community in eating disorder recovery
- The power of advocacy
- Finding strength in sharing feelings in verse
- Providing care ‘around the table’
- Look for Me in poetry
- What do you do when feeling deeply anxious? Jennifer writes verse
- It’s time to talk about — why I love my diary
- Discovering liberation and healing through story-sharing and advocacy
- Creating a New Home in thediaryhealer.com
- Opinion Articles – Sharing Stories of Hope
- Media
- News Items
- The right time to write
- Category: Books
- June Alexander in podcast with Karin Lewis on eating disorder recovery and the diary
- In the waiting room, there was a horse
- The power of story-telling and why your story counts
- The healing power in writing your memoir
- Recovery memoir pre-publication study: inviting participants
- How anorexia strikes fear into food and causes life to crumble
- Fictional life story helps self-healing from eating disorder
- Healing goes on and on with ‘Life Without Ed’
- Feed, love and heal – the role for parents when their child develops an eating disorder
- How diary writing helped me to survive and heal from an eating disorder
- Never under-estimate the story-telling power of a French fry
- Reviews for A Girl Named Tim
- About A Girl Called Tim
- Did my recovery experience have to be so tortuous? Could the diary help?
- Diaries, grief and healing – through the eyes of a new book
- Announcing: the birth of The Diary Healer
- Getting Better Bite by Bite _ German translation
- In sharing stories we can help others and our self
- Olivia Rose, why I am glad I did not give up
- Korean people get eating disorders too
- Global eating disorder day a catalyst for hope and action
- The patient’s story holds a lesson for all
- Binge eat? A self-help guide for sufferers and carers
- Survival kit for Getting Better Bite by Bite – a book for sufferers of bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorders
- Category: Eating Disorders
- Why eating disorder recovery requires a village of care
- ‘I’m so glad I found you!’ How story-sharing helps recovery from eating disorders
- Confronting fears on the path to freedom from an eating disorder
- Recovery, healing and growth are compromised when addictive behaviours shield an eating disorder
- Into the Great Wide Open: Family Risk and the Prevention of Eating Disorders (part 2)
- Sixty years on, my diary has evolved from a private survival tool to an open family record
- Supporting and involving families will help recovery and cut ED treatment costs
- Finding a family in eating disorder advocacy
- Living with autism and anorexia nervosa – exposing cracks in care
- When an eating disorder provides a way to cope with grief
- The Role of a Support Person in Eating Disorder Treatment
- Carried on the Wings of Poems
- SBS call-out for Australian stories about eating disorders in adulthood
- Home is where eating disorder healing will happen
- Clarity on anorexia nervosa: from childhood through motherhood
- I’m a psychiatrist and my daughter has anorexia
- Motherhood brought clarity to my childhood anorexia
- The role of hope in recovery and wellbeing
- Departing a rudderless sea to save myself
- Changing the chatter on body image with ‘KIT’ the Chatbot
- An Open Letter to my Anxiety (Mr A)
- Supporting Someone with an Eating Disorder During COVID-19
- Learning from lived experience: rating items for body image questionnaire
- The Longest Match: defeating an eating disorder in midlife
- Turning eating disorder thoughts into visual works of art
- Diaries a lens for eating disorder memoir
- When Mother’s Day hurts
- Labelled a waste of resources and incurable – where else can an adult with an eating disorder go?
- Waiting… for doctors to listen or for my heart to stop
- When your child says “I hate you” remember that’s their eating disorder voice
- This Girl Rising: online self-help eating disorder program fills gap
- Dying but not sick enough to have a hospital bed
- Fed Up with Eating Disorder Silence
- Chatbot KIT is helping to improve body image one chat at a time
- What not to say to someone with an eating disorder
- The perfect body illusion
- Hospitals must treat people with eating disorders with respect
- Studying the impact of personality traits in people with eating disorders
- Hanging up the bikini: why I quit fitness competitions
- How I found identity and freedom by feeding my soul
- Mistakes are valuable lessons in eating disorder recovery
- The Role of Faith in Recovery: A Personal Journey
- How motherhood inspired this dancer to heal from her eating disorder
- Is gaining weight the worst outcome for me during a global pandemic?
- Boomer blooms after beating bulimia
- Swapping one obsession for another- the dangers of obsessive exercise in recovery
- Finding that one person: the key to hope and inspiration
- Metamorphosis: the transformative work of therapy in eating disorder recovery
- Anorexia Nervosa – common traits but incredibly personal
- Adult experts by experience stories call for improved care for chronic eating disorders
- Through sharing our stories, we can help beat eating disorders
- How research into eating disorders has changed my life
- Writing allowed me to turn my recovery into an art
- Bulimia experience inspires Brighter Bite App to aid recovery
- Sharing your story – is now a good time?
- Writing connects caregivers and creates a channel for healing
- Therapeutic writing for disordered eating: Naming the nameless
- Surviving Anorexia Nervosa and COVID-19
- The evolution of a diary into a self-healer
- How Crises Can Re-Ignite Eating Disorder Thoughts
- Morningside Chats in the Living Room: Virtual Support with Leaders in the Field of Eating Disorders
- Isolation, loneliness and disconnection: the next pandemic-in-waiting
- Picturing a world without my eating disorder
- Protecting Our Kids from Diet Culture
- Recovery IS Possible Across the Lifespan
- An eating disorder relapse in mid-life is an opportunity for self-growth
- Poetry explores Famine in the Family through an eating disorder lens
- A talk on body confidence in children hits home with mother
- Stepping out with stories to educate eating disorder clinicians
- Astronauts, ice cream and eating disorders
- Using two-way written narrative to unlock the anorexia prison
- Can’t afford to wait: Tips to control and overcome your binge eating
- Providing hope and healing for people with an eating disorder in Japan
- Lived experience stories to boost understanding of eating disorders
- Families and clinicians must form a shield against eating disorders
- One Family: Learning from the Substance Use Disorder Community
- Therapist in eating disorder recovery: Stop stereotypes, start healing
- AED president calls for more training for frontline medical providers
- The Israeli mom who cannot wait patiently for eating disorder change
- The power of committed citizens in addressing eating disorder problems
- The decline over time: why eating disorders can’t afford to wait
- Explanation of normal and binge eating in eating disorder recovery
- NEDIC Article April 2018
- An Enduring Relationship: the Patient and the Therapist Who Does Not Give Up
- Wanted: 100 research participants to compare anorexia nervosa types
- Give blood to help crack genetic code of anorexia – researchers’ call to United States and Australia
- Poetry and song help healing and keep advocacy wheels turning
- Join Keanu Reeves in supporting World Eating Disorders Action Day_June 2
- Achieving global change starts at home – so sign the pledge on Ed
- Help researchers understand ED recovery process – share your story in survey
- Caring starts young; let’s act like Amelia and care for our young
- When Grandma Found her Voice: It’s Never Too Late to Recover from an Eating Disorder
- Carers of eating disorder patients face dual challenge _ they need care too
- Call for co-scientists in multi family therapy group research for adults
- Professional woman in her forties, starving – what can her best friend do? Act
- Finding room for food and feelings
- Early intervention for adults with disordered eating – CEED seeks your help in developing a resource
- Hear our Voice on World Eating Disorders Action Day, June 2
- Teeth literally crumbled out of my mouth: how ED can cause a dental debacle
- Your chance to direct eating disorder research
- No front teeth, so hard to smile — getting the drill on ED
- Research call for clinicians, clients and carers with experience of inpatient care eating disorder services
- Join World Eating Disorder Action Day: June 2
- Tribute to my bestest friend who stuck by me…when others walked away
- ANGI is giving hope this Christmas
- Category: Families
- Category: Issues
- Category: Life Writing
- Encouraging our senior citizens to pick up their pens and reveal their gems
- Detachment writing and how it helped me to reclaim my voice
- Writing our way through 2021
- When disaster re-ignites past trauma, reach out
- Writing a memoir through drawing on personal diaries and other keepsakes
- Life writing and social history
- Category: Mental Health Latest
- Category: Pick-Me-Up
- Category: Recovery Journey
- Category: Research
- Category: eating disorders
- Category: News, Media and Events
- Category: Event Wraps
- Category: Events
- Using ED recovery skills to cope with COVID-19 isolation
- Hope Night at New Zealand Eating Disorders Clinic – Thursday, December 12, 2017
- NARRATIVE WORKSHOP SERIES: Using the diary as a self-help power tool
- Workshop Presentations in Bournemouth, UK – June 28, 2017
- Workshop presentation at AED ICED in Prague, Czech Republic June 8-10, 2017
- In honor of World Eating Disorders Day June 2, 2017
- Severe and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa – What are our goals and should we ever give up?
- The Diary is Gaining Recognition
- World Eating Disorder Day June 2, 2017
- Connecting the Dots: Making Sense of Eating Disorders May 19-20, 2017
- Poetry Competition: Win a Book!
- Sock It to Eating Disorders – March 3, 2017
- NEDA Awareness Week, February 26-March 4, 2017
- Therapeutic Writing for Eating Disorders: A Workshop for Professional Care Givers
- My Life is My Message (Mohandas Gandhi) sets scene for ED conference and beyond
- Get on board with World Eating Disorders Action Day
- Women, let’s love our imperfections and celebrate being woman
- What do you like or dislike about you?
- Category: News
- Category: Videos & Podcasts
- Interview: Mamamia’s podcast ‘The Quicky’
- June speaks with Dr. Cynthia M. Bulik – Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative
- Routledge ‘Experts on Mental Health’ hub
- Interview with June Alexander – OCR FM (Geelong)
- Podcast: A Girl Called Tim: Escape from an Eating Disorder Hell
- The surprising prevalence of eating disorders among older people
- June Alexander’s videos
- Making waves on radio
- What does real RECOVERY look like?
- Category: The Diary Healer News
- Australia’s peak eating disorder body steps up focus on prevention and access to care
- Getting Better Bite by Bite – in English, German, Korean and now, a Polish translation
- New book describes how narrative family therapy helps parents and children struggling with complex psychiatric problems
- Cold caller triggers childhood memories of domestic violence
- What does an eating disorder look like to you?
- Into the Great Wide Open: Family Risk and the Prevention of Eating Disorders
- More than a diagnosis: how finding my identity helped me find recovery
- The Niggle – when Anorexia and Anxiety are Partners
- Australian families unite to address gaps in eating disorder support system
- The dark side of fitness culture
- Diary writing reveals eating disorder stigma and ignorance
- June interviewed by bay 939 Geelong
- When you help the family, you help the patient
- Music video puts Ana on the run
Books
- Using Writing as a Therapy for Eating Disorders: The Diary Healer
- My Kid is Back – Empowering Parents to Beat Anorexia Nervosa.
- Hope at Every Age – Developing an Appetite for Recovery
- Getting Better Bite by Bite – A survival kit for sufferers of bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorders
- Ed says U said – Eating Disorder Translator
- Come As You Are: Eating Disorders Can’t Wait
- Anorexia Nervosa – A Recovery Guide for Sufferers, Families and Friends
- A Girl Called Tim
- A Collaborative Approach to Eating Disorders
- A Clinician’s Guide to Binge Eating Disorder
Events
- Morning side chats with experts in the eating disorder field
- Virtual ICED 2020 Meet the Experts Session
- ANZAED webinar: Using Diary Writing as a Power Tool to Reveal Fresh Perspectives and Achieve Shared Goals in Eating Disorder Recovery
- FEAST of Knowledge Event
- Virtual ICED 2020 (ANZAED & AED)
- At Home with Eating Disorders
- Workshop on Diary-Writing
- NEDC Members’ Meeting 2020
- Narrative workshops for carers and people with ED (Sufferers)
- Narrative workshops for carers and people with ED (Carers)
- Australia & New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders 2019 Conference
- Writers Victoria season two workshop - Using diaries, journals, and personal letters in fiction and non-fiction
- International Conference on Eating Disorders 2019
- ANZAED Conference, Melbourne, 2018