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

Recent posts

Guided meditations to help you be at your best

A common source of discouragement from parents is this: “I know I should be kind, and calm, and confident, and compassionate, but so many times I just can’t.” Well, that’s us just being human. This extreme parenting thing can’t be done 100% all the time, and it certainly can’t be done on our own through…
Is it OK for my child to be vegan during eating disorder treatment?

A parent’s experience with a long-term vegan daughter. Tips and words of caution.
The main eating disorders: binge eating, bulimia, anorexia, ARFID and OSFED

The main eating disorders: binge eating, bulimia, anorexia, ARFID and OSFED. What defines them and how they affect a young person.
What treatment and care is there for eating disorders in Scotland?

How does Scotland treat eating disorders? The good news is that if you have a child or adolescent suffering from an eating disorder in Scotland, there are good chances he or she for engwill receive excellent, evidence-based treatment, and that this will be offered promptly. Scotland has led the way in getting staff trained and…
„Home treatment“ in Aachen: Behandlung von Essstörungen

Vor ca. 10 Jahren hat Frau Prof. Dr. Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann, die sich schon sehr lange mit dem Thema Magersucht beschäftigt, in einer Studie an ihrer Klinik in Aachen festgestellt, dass die Rückfallquote bei den Patienten die statt stationärer Behandlung in der Tagesklinik behandelt wurden, deutlich geringer war. Sie setzte sich das Ziel diese Zahl weiter…
Powerful tools for wellbeing and compassionate connection when your son or daughter has an eating disorder

Excerpts from Chapter 13 of my book, on communication.
NG tube feeding with anorexia: parents’ questions

Parents’ FAQs on NG tube feeding someone with anorexia nervosa. Willingly or under restraint.
How do you get your child to eat?

Excerpt from Chapter 7: How to help your child to eat. Tips to feed our sons and daughters in spite of the eating disorder. All the tips I’ve learned from experience, from our therapists and from other parents. I use a bungee-jumping analogy to illustrate the principles. Later, I’ll offer some examples using practical scenarios.
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.
Young adults with anorexia: FBT-TAY family-based treatment for 17-25 year olds

How family therapy can be adapted to young adults (17-25 years) with anorexia. Reporting on work by Lock, Le Grange and others working in Family-Based Treatment (FBT/Maudsley)
The parent’s part in eating disorders diagnosis

Find out how eating disorders are diagnosed, the pitfalls you can guard against, and get tips on how to get expert care without delay. This is Chapter 3 from my book.
Adolescent-focused therapy (AFT) for anorexia: how does it compare with family-based treatment?

How does adolescent-focused therapy (AFT) compare with a family-based approach like FBT? What does the NICE guideline say about choosing a family therapy, adolescent-focused therapy or cognitive-behaviour therapy?
How long should I persist with a meal when my child has an eating disorder?

How long should you persist with a meal? Use a set time limit? Supplement calories? Use sanctions? How to end the meal such that the next one will work.
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT-E) for eating disorders

What is CBT for eating disorders, when may it work, and what to watch out for
What to say when you discover your child binned food at school (eating disorders)

In the book I give you principles and examples of empathy and dialogue. Here is one more example you might relate to. The child has secretly been binning food in school and the parent is trying to connect, understand and find solutions. What can the parent say to both connect and find solutions?
Love, no matter what: how to support your child with compassionate communication as you treat the eating disorder

This is a section from Chapter 14 of ‘Anorexia and other eating disorders – how to help your child eat well and be well’ Also useful: you can hear me demonstrate examples of dialogue in Bitesize. Has it become difficult to recognise your son or daughter? Do you struggle to help them as they flip…
What do you reply to, “Am I fat?” when your child has an eating disorder?

What can you say when your child asks ‘Am I fat?’ at various stages of an eating disorder? How anorexia, in particular, amplifies fat fears.
Is your school supporting lunch? For pupils with an eating disorder, it must.

If your school isn’t supporting your child’s needs — such as supervising meals when they have a restrictive eating disorder — here are legal tools in UK and worldwide