Tag: meals

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.
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.
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
Meal plan ideas: high-calorie food to renourish your child with anorexia

Tips for high-calorie meals and snacks, including supplements
Bitesize: learn to help your child, in short audio bites

My Bitesize audio collection. What’s in it, how it is designed to help you. Listen to some samples.
Online workshops: learn and join likeminded parents when you’re supporting a child with an eating disorder

All my workshops for parents – by video link.
How to get your child to eat: refeeding mealtime tips for a teen with an eating disorder

Tips to get your child to eat and start refeeding in anorexia/eating disorder treatment. Based on my free helpsheets for parents.
Be a fly on the wall: coaching your child to serve their own breakfast

This post shows a practical example of getting our children with an eating disorder to let go of rigid rules and behaviours. There's a lot of help from me on this topic in my book (Chapter 9), my Bitesize audio collection and my workshop on extinguishing fears. I hope this page will give you ideas…
A mother’s story: what got my girl with anorexia eating again

A mother’s story: what got my daughter to manage meals again
Autism and eating disorders: individualising treatment for your autistic child or teen

The combination of autism and an eating disorder. Signs of autism; tips from parents; links to more resources.
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
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.
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.
NG tube feeding with anorexia: parents’ questions

Parents’ FAQs on NG tube feeding someone with anorexia nervosa. Willingly or under restraint.
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.
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?