Recent posts from Eva Musby: Help your child with an eating disorder

Helping you free your child of an eating disorder

Recent posts

Treating an eating disorder together: the power of support in TBT-S

Learn about Temperament-Based Therapy with Supports (TBT-S), for any age: bringing ‘support people’ into treatment, helping everyone work with their strengths.
A game-changer: the eating disorder team that’s home with you all day… and saves millions

When a mother told me her eating disorder service provided 10 hours of support at home, my jaw dropped. Is this affordable? A model for other services? And what was it like for the family? Here’s what I learned from the lead clinician of COAST-ED, and from the mother herself.
I posed as a teen with an eating disorder. Here’s how AI responded.

I asked for weight loss tips while posing as a teen with an eating disorder. Did ChatGPT spot the red flags? Find out how it did.
AI gave harmful eating disorder advice. Here’s how it might be fixed.

When I posed as a teen with an eating disorder, ChatGPT gave harmful advice. Here’s how it reacted to my feedback.
Lily’s swift recovery from anorexia – a mother’s uplifting story

For parents at the start of eating disorder treatment: a real-life, rapid success story showing how family-based support led to swift recovery from anorexia.
Tamper-proof tech for your child’s meals

Seals or labels to secure food or drink in the school lunch bag or fridge.
How does an eating disorder affect you and your child?

Chapter 2. What’s going on in the mind of someone with an eating disorder? And what’s it like for you the parent? The aim of this chapter is to lead the way to understanding and compassion for yourself and for your child.
How to build up your own resilience and wellbeing when your child has an eating disorder

Extract from Ch 15. All about your wellbeing, your resilience, your strengths, so that you can cope right now and even flourish in the longer term. Resources and nourishment for your soul.
Love, no matter what: how to support your child with compassionate communication as you treat the eating disorder

Has your child become hard to recognise? Do you struggle to help them as they swing between depression and aggression? Are you finding it hard to offer unconditional love? Are you confused about using rewards and punishment? In this chapter you’ll find practical tools and examples to help you navigate common issues, communicate with compassion,…
Powerful tools for wellbeing and compassionate connection when your son or daughter has an eating disorder

Excerpts from Chapter 13 of my book. A guide to compassionate communication, to help you support your child through the toughest challenges and help them thrive. Also, self-compassion. If you are fearful about what to say, if your child’s emotions – and your own – are all over the place, this chapter will help you…
Which eating-disorder treatments work?

Chapter 12. What are the principles of successful therapies? What should you look for when choosing a therapist or treatment centre? And what are the red flags for poor treatment? I tell you more about family therapy and other approaches, suggest how to work in partnership with clinicians and when it might be better to…
Partners, family, friends and work: help or hindrance?

Excerpt of Chapter 11: partners, your other children, family, work…
The work towards full recovery: school, exercise, appetite, relapse-prevention and the rest (Phase 2)

Excerpts from Chapter 10: once eating and weight gain are secure, what else do we need to do?
Free your son or daughter of fears and rules with exposure

Excerpt from Chapter 9: How to free your child of fears and rules – exposure therapy.
Practical mealtime scenarios: see the tools in action and treat your child’s eating disorder

Excerpt from Chapter 8: See the tools in action. Mealtime scenarios. Examples of broken record and answers to typical resistance.
How do you get your child to eat in spite of the eating disorder?

Excerpt from Chapter 7: Using a bungee-jump analogy to help you make meals work with your child.
Practical steps to help your child beat the eating disorder: magic plate and other tools for the first phase of treatment

Excerpt from Chapter 6: Practical steps to beat the eating disorder
What parents need to know about the causes of eating disorders

Chapter 5 of my book. A ‘pack of cards’ analogy to help you with the nuances around causation of an eating disorder. It’s not just the bullying or the ‘healthy eating’ talk in school. I urge you to focus on what you CAN do.