Tag: parent-wellbeing

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.
Individual support or coaching for parents of a son/daughter with an eating disorder
Looking for one-on-one support / coaching for yourself so you can better support your child? We can meet by video call.
Interested in individual support or coaching? Here’s more information
More information on the support or coaching I offer to parents
Preventing burnout, when your teen has an eating disorder
How can you prevent burnout when you’re caring for your child or teen with an eating disorder? Principles to help you cope and increase your wellbeing.
Self-compassion: how to recover your inner strength
Self-compassion: why, and how? A well-validated way of managing your emotions and feeling better. Then you can model the skills for your child to strengthen them against the eating disorder’s cruel inner critic.
Peri/menopause: why mothers of eating-disorder teens are swimming through molasses
Why mothers should get pointed towards perimenopause and menopause resources, when their child has an eating disorder
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
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.
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…
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.
How we lose the very friends who should be supporting us (it’s not about you!)
We need friends and family. If you think people are avoiding or have let you know, here are some common beliefs and some suggestions to keep getting the help you need.
‘OK’: two letters for two steps to mindfulness and compassion
Just two letters to help you with compassion
Books & Links on Mindfulness
My review of helpful books for parents on mindfulness, acceptance and letting go.
Help with compassion, self-compassion and sleep
Video resources I have found very helpful to build me up fast when I’ve been knocked down. Later I developed my own resources (available on this website), especially for parents in our situation.
Don’t beat up your child (or yourself) for failing in spite of therapy
Anyone who engages with psychotherapy is showing courage and willingness to make changes and take risks. The greater the changes, the more we’re likely to stumble and fail for a while. It takes time to use new tools. I make a plea to all families to be patient with the process and to resist criticising…
Internal conflict: self-compassion and how to mediate arguments in your brain
The challenges of supporting a child suffering from an eating disorder often take us to our very limits. It’s normal for us parents to have a huge lot of regrets. If you’re finding it hard to disentangle yourself from blame and shame, or if you’re getting eaten up by thoughts of what you could have…
Partners, family, friends and work: help or hindrance?
Excerpt of Chapter 11: partners, your other children, family, work…