Candid Conversations

For the first time on the podcast we have a lived experience story from a carer perspective! Jeanette is a Stories of Recovery Ambassador at EDV who has supported two daughters through recovery from anorexia nervosa.

Jeanette beautifully weaves her family's story through the lens of EDV values - Perseverance, Connection, Courage and Optimism.

💡 Are you supporting a loved one with an eating disorder? EDV's range of carer/loved one resources and services can help. Visit our website here to learn more.

📞 CONTACT THE HUB:

Call: 1300 550 236 Email: [email protected]

Web Enquiry:⁠www.eatingdisorders.org.au⁠

If you are located outside of Victoria, please contact The Butterfly Foundation:⁠www.butterfly.org.au⁠

🌿 FIND EDV ON SOCIALS:

Instagram:⁠@eatingdisordersvictoria⁠

Facebook:⁠www.facebook.com/EatingDisordersVictoria/⁠

Twitter:⁠@ed_victoria⁠

EDV acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which this podcast is recorded. The Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung people of the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders past, present, and emerging.

Please welcome EDV Ambassador Lily to the podcast! Lily is a clinical nurse specialist at a large regional hospital in Victoria. She loves the outdoors and adores being an aunty. While Lily is now focused on living life to the fullest, as a teen she experienced anorexia nervosa, OCD, anxiety and depression.

Lily's story of recovery covers the challenges of living in a rural area, navigating FBT, the backwards and forward steps of recovery, the impact of an eating disorder on the broader family unit, and the steps she takes to maintain her mental health.

👣 How do you navigate exercise in recovery? Check out this helpful article here from the EDV website.

💡 Are you looking for eating disorder treatment in Victoria? EDV has partnered with La Trobe University to offer a no-cost eating disorder clinic for eligible Victorians. The clinic is based out of EDV in Abbotsford or via Telehealth and offers eligible clients no-cost eating disorder treatment through either guided self-help stepped care (GSH-SC) or cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Both are evidence-based treatment approaches for eating disorders. Visit our websitehereto learn more.

📞 CONTACT THE HUB:

Call: 1300 550 236 Email: [email protected]

Web Enquiry:⁠www.eatingdisorders.org.au⁠

If you are located outside of Victoria, please contact The Butterfly Foundation:⁠www.butterfly.org.au⁠

🌿 FIND EDV ON SOCIALS:

Instagram:⁠@eatingdisordersvictoria⁠

Facebook:⁠www.facebook.com/EatingDisordersVictoria/⁠

Twitter:⁠@ed_victoria⁠

EDV acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which this podcast is recorded. The Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung people of the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders past, present, and emerging.

We're putting our critical thinking caps on for this episode of Candid Conversations! Social worker, graduate researcher and EDV Peer Mentoring Program Manager Rachael Duck joins Bree for an important conversation that will challenge listeners to think outside the box and look beyond an individual focus on health. Importantly, we invite you to think about the idea that eating disorders don't happen on their own, and that people's experiences are often tied to larger social and cultural forces. As Rachael likes to say, the personal is political!

The release of this episode aligns with Body Image and Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2023. As part of the theme 'The Time is Now to Take Action on Eating Disorders and Body Image', we are sharing lots of lived experience reflections, education resources and advocacy information on our socials. Make sure you're following us!

🌿 FIND EDV ON SOCIALS:

Instagram:⁠⁠@eatingdisordersvictoria⁠⁠

Facebook:⁠⁠www.facebook.com/EatingDisordersVictoria/⁠⁠

Twitter:⁠⁠@ed_victoria⁠⁠

LinkedIn: ⁠www.linkedin.com/company/eating-disorders-victoria/⁠

📞 CONTACT THE HUB:

Call: 1300 550 236 Email: [email protected]

Web Enquiry:⁠www.eatingdisorders.org.au⁠

If you are located outside of Victoria, please contact The Butterfly Foundation:⁠www.butterfly.org.au⁠

EDV acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which this podcast is recorded. The Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung people of the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders past, present, and emerging.

In between recent visits to hospital wards to share her story, Ambassador Beth stopped into EDV to record her recovery story for you.

Beth's story covers:

• The impact of a challenging home environment
• Feeling voiceless in the treatment process
• Hitting rock bottom, and getting back up again
• Pursuing recovery based actions, without intending to recover
• How a 'fear hierarchy' approach changed things
• Managing the shapeshifting nature of relapse
• Finding herself outside the eating disorder

Big thank you to Beth for sharing in such a considered, helpful way.

💡 Are you looking for eating disorder treatment in Victoria? EDV has partnered with La Trobe University to offer a no-cost eating disorder clinic for eligible Victorians. The clinic is based out of EDV in Abbotsford or via Telehealth and offers eligible clients no-cost eating disorder treatment through either guided self-help stepped care (GSH-SC) or cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Both are evidence-based treatment approaches for eating disorders. Visit our website here to learn more.

📞 CONTACT THE HUB:

Call: 1300 550 236 Email: [email protected]

Web Enquiry: ⁠www.eatingdisorders.org.au⁠

If you are located outside of Victoria, please contact The Butterfly Foundation: ⁠www.butterfly.org.au⁠

🌿 FIND EDV ON SOCIALS:

Instagram: ⁠@eatingdisordersvictoria⁠ 

Facebook: ⁠www.facebook.com/EatingDisordersVictoria/⁠ 

Twitter: ⁠@ed_victoria⁠

EDV acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which this podcast is recorded. The Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung people of the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders past, present, and emerging.

Hi friends! We have a very special guest on the podcast - EDV's boss lady, CEO Belinda Caldwell. Belinda joins Bree for a candid conversation about how she ended up as the CEO of an eating disorder organisation, as well as the challenges and opportunities that face EDV and the eating disorder sector. Topics covered include:

• The evolution of EDV
• Impacts of state and federal funding announcements for eating disorders
• The new residential treatment service opening in Melbourne
• The upcoming Victorian Eating Disorder Strategy
• Opportunities for you to be involved through lived experience work and advocacy

LINKS:

💻PEER WORK INFORMATION WEBINAR (CONSUMERS) June 29th 💻PEER WORK INFORMATION WEBINAR (CARERS) June 22nd

💳DONATE TO EDV'S 40K FOR 40YRS CAMPAIGN

📞 CONTACT THE HUB:

Call: 1300 550 236

Email: [email protected]

Web Enquiry: ⁠www.eatingdisorders.org.au⁠

If you are located outside of Victoria, please contact The Butterfly Foundation: ⁠www.butterfly.org.au⁠

🌿 FIND EDV ON SOCIALS:

Instagram: ⁠@eatingdisordersvictoria⁠ 

Facebook: ⁠www.facebook.com/EatingDisordersVictoria/⁠ 

Twitter: ⁠@ed_victoria⁠

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/eating-disorders-victoria/

EDV acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which this podcast is recorded. The Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung people of the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders past, present, and emerging.

While Kiara's story begins with childhood taunts and self-consciousness about her body, it was being diagnosed with gastroparesis (stomach muscle paralysis) that kicked off a downward spiral into fad dieting and eventually, Binge Eating Disorder. Kiara reflects on:

• The impact of diet culture on her self-worth and acceptance
• The impact of the diet-binge cycle, including fear, anger and shame
• Challenging her belief system around food and bodies
• Quasi-recovery
• The role of ego and intuition in her recovery (via popular book, The Power of Now)

Thank you so much to Kiara for sharing her story with the EDV Community 🌸

💡 Are you looking for eating disorder treatment in Victoria? EDV has partnered with La Trobe University to offer a no-cost eating disorder clinic for eligible Victorians. The clinic is based out of EDV in Abbotsford or via Telehealth and offers eligible clients no-cost eating disorder treatment through either guided self-help stepped care (GSH-SC) or cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Both are evidence-based treatment approaches for eating disorders. Visit our website here to learn more.

📞 CONTACT THE HUB:

Call: 1300 550 236 Email: [email protected] Web Enquiry: ⁠www.eatingdisorders.org.au⁠

If you are located outside of Victoria, please contact The Butterfly Foundation: ⁠www.butterfly.org.au⁠

🌿 FIND EDV ON SOCIALS:

Instagram: ⁠@eatingdisordersvictoria⁠ Facebook: ⁠www.facebook.com/EatingDisordersVictoria/⁠ Twitter: ⁠@ed_victoria⁠

EDV acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which this podcast is recorded. The Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung people of the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders past, present, and emerging.

Did you know that the majority of eating disorders occur between the ages of 12 and 25? This means that for many people with eating disorders, recovery also falls within the transition period from adolescence to adulthood. It's a time of huge change and growth, which, when coupled with an eating disorder, can be really overwhelming.

In this episode, we speak with Emily, a member of the EDV team who has lived experience of being diagnosed with an eating disorder in her late teens. Emily's recovery journey included both the adolescent and adult public health system. We discuss being diagnosed with an eating disorder while in Year 12, undergoing treatment while seeking independence from family/parents, choosing recovery as an adult and finding motivation, travelling, moving out of home, and creating a new life.

Huge thanks to Emily for sharing her story for this episode. As with all of our episodes that are driven by lived experience, we feel like there's something in here for everyone, even if this transition period that we're talking about doesn't directly relate to you. But if you know someone who is going through this particular time in their life, please feel free to pass this episode on!

📞 CONTACT THE HUB:

Call: 1300 550 236 Email: [email protected] Web Enquiry: ⁠www.eatingdisorders.org.au⁠

If you are located outside of Victoria, please contact The Butterfly Foundation: ⁠www.butterfly.org.au⁠

🌿 FIND EDV ON SOCIALS:

Instagram: ⁠@eatingdisordersvictoria⁠ Facebook: ⁠www.facebook.com/EatingDisordersVictoria/⁠ Twitter: ⁠@ed_victoria⁠

EDV acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which this podcast is recorded. The Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung people of the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders past, present, and emerging.

Hi! Today we're welcoming EDV Ambassador Ming to the mic! Ming is an organisational change professional and Pilates instructor, and has lived experience of recovery from anorexia nervosa. 

From China, to Brisbane and now Melbourne, Ming's story is one of inner determination and courage. It shows that it's possible to find hope for yourself, even when it feels like you're facing the battle alone. Ming's decision to claim her story and learn from her recovery experience has helped shape her into the person she is today. In sharing her story she is choosing hope, and she invites you to do the same. 

Reminder if you're looking for help:

📞 CONTACT THE HUB:

Call: 1300 550 236
Email: [email protected]
Web Enquiry: www.eatingdisorders.org.au

If you are located outside of Victoria, please contact The Butterfly Foundation: www.butterfly.org.au

🌿 FIND EDV ON SOCIALS:

Instagram: @eatingdisordersvictoria
Facebook: www.facebook.com/EatingDisordersVictoria/
Twitter: @ed_victoria
TikTok: @ed_vict

EDV acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which this podcast is recorded. The Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung people of the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders past, present, and emerging.

Does eating disorder recovery have you feeling like you're living a double life? Your recovery self is working full-time on getting better, while your regular life comes knocking with work, study and social obligations. It can be exhausting! 

In this episode of Candid Conversations, we speak with Telehealth Nurse and Recovery Ambassador Gemma to help make sense of this really challenging period of recovery. We discuss:

• Gemma's personal lived experience of ED recovery
• Why this period can be the most difficult in recovery
• How to manage work/study obligations
• Opening yourself up socially while maintaining recovery
• How to manage frustration and curb self-criticism 
• The power of journaling 
• How loved ones and friends can be supportive
• How to find motivation through relapse and setbacks 

Get in touch with Gemma and the Telehealth Nurse team here on our website.

📞 CONTACT THE HUB:

Call: 1300 550 236

Email: [email protected]

Web Enquiry: www.eatingdisoders.org.au 

If you are located outside of Victoria, please contact The Butterfly Foundation: www.butterfly.org.au

🌿 FIND EDV ON SOCIALS:

Instagram: @eatingdisordersvictoria

Facebook: www.facebook.com/EatingDisordersVictoria/

Twitter: @ed_victoria

TikTok: @ed_vict

EDV acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which this podcast is recorded, the Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung people of the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders past, present, and emerging.

For EDV's Education Officer Bridie, the topic of body image and body dissatisfaction in her eating disorder recovery was largely dealt with in "very lame platitudes" from well meaning health professionals. While Bridie recovered from her eating disorder, feelings of shame and discomfort around her body image lingered. Bridie was eventually compelled to confront her relationship with her body and begin a self-guided journey towards compassion and acceptance. 

In this chat we cover:

• Bridie's journey to working at EDV
• Bridie's lived experience of body dissatisfaction and eating disorder recovery
• Why Bridie developed an online, self-guided course on body image for EDV's elearning platform, LearnED
• Complex viewpoints and diversities in the body image space, including historical roots
• Tips for unpacking and improving your relationship with your body
• How to access the online course

Learn more and sign up for: Body Image 101: Understanding the Appearance Ideal and Exploring Body Advocacy 

📞 CONTACT THE HUB:

Call: 1300 550 236

Email: [email protected]

Web Enquiry: www.eatingdisoders.org.au 

If you are located outside of Victoria, please contact The Butterfly Foundation: www.butterfly.org.au

🌿 FIND EDV ON SOCIALS:

Instagram: @eatingdisordersvictoria

Facebook: www.facebook.com/EatingDisordersVictoria/

Twitter: @ed_victoria

TikTok: @ed_vict

EDV acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which this podcast is recorded, the Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung people of the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders past, present, and emerging.