Tag: Phase-1

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.
A mother’s story: what got my girl with anorexia eating again
A mother’s story: what got my daughter to manage meals again
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.
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.
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 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 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?
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
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.