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

Recent posts

Eating disorders in the United States

How to choose excellent eating disorder treatment in the USA There are some good guides to help you find good specialist treatment for someone with an eating disorder in the US, and how to navigate the insurance system. Here they are: Port in a Storm: A F.E.A.S.T. family guide to eating disorder treatment – How…
Crisis Helplines

Organisations that will give you help if you are in distress or suicidal.
What’s Mindfulness?

What is mindfulness? Why is it useful to parents? A brief description of what mindfulness is and is not.
Compassionate or Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and eating disorders

What are the principles of Nonviolent communication (NVC) or Compassionate Communication? A good start if your child suffers from an eating disorder.
Super-charge your skills with these video and audio resources, and help your child or teen to recover from an eating disorder

All my YouTubes and audios collected together here
Organisations and online parent-support groups for eating disorders

The benefits of pitfalls of online parent support groups when your child has an eating disorder. I list some of the safer ones and charities too
Books & Links on Raising kids, Communication and Wellbeing

My reviews of some great books to help you with raising kids and with compassion — independently of an eating disorder
Leaving hospital? Aftercare under the Mental Health Act in the UK

UK parents, if your child (any age) was in hospital with a Section 3 of the Mental Health Act, they are entitled to paid aftercare under Section 117.
Professionals who help people with an eating disorder to eat at home

Showcasing Eating Disorders Home Care, a company that supports people with an eating disorder to eat at home.
How to get your child to cope with calories on menus (and get free of the eating disorder)

Your child can fully recover and thrive even though calories are displayed everywhere. Exposure & desensitisation to calories on menus in cafés and restaurant.
Could a parent’s rage at ‘ED’ slow down progress?

Raging at an eating disorder demon might lose you the intended benefits of externalizing. I give examples of alternatives.
Phase 2: how to guide your child to complete recovery from an eating disorder

Phase 2, and coaching your child towards normal life, is an essential part of treatment, often poorly done
School trip or summer camp: a helpful flow chart when your child is recovering from an eating disorder

When your child is in recovery from an eating disorder, you may decide she’s safe enough to go on a school trip. At the same time, there’s an element of risk. What if 10 days away from your supervision is just too much? What if she eats without anxiety but not enough to compensate for…
Schools, this is how you spot an eating disorder

What are the behavioural, mood and physical warning signs that warn a school that a pupil may have an eating disorder?
Bizarre yet normal eating disorder symptoms

Bizarre but normal effects of an eating disorder and malnutrition. These will pass with eating disorder treatment.
About PANS or PANDAS

In case your searches have led you to wonder if your child might have PANS or PANDAS
Start here: find the information you need NOW

This website has lots of information, and I’ve produced many more resources. I guide you to the bits you need right now.
Three routes out of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

In this post I offer you three evidence-based approaches to address the effect of traumas large and small, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Our lives, as we support a child with an eating disorder, is peppered with distressing or fearful events — some affect us for a day, and some can bring us to tears,…