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- When mother has an eating disorder
- Tug of war with an eating disorder
- Being a loser at weight loss makes you a winner – or does it?
- Straddling the literature and eating disorder divide
- It’s time to redefine the Body Mass Index (BMI)
- Anorexia nervosa takes the fun out of exercise
- In diet culture, ‘gain’ is feared and despised
- An ice cream is a ‘win’ when holidaying with an eating disorder
- Leaving home to discover one’s own identity
- Goodbye calories! Hello, energy!
- An eating disorder recovery coach in a box
- Tragic outcome for psychiatric patient seeking help for diet pill addiction
- No room for secrets in eating disorder recovery
- How do I differentiate between Autistic rigidity and anorexia nervosa?
- Don’t settle for a part-life with an eating disorder
- Selective apathy and the eating disorder connection
- The private diary: from life coping tool to research resource
- When the eating disorder is all you can hear
- Family diets were the norm when Faith was a child
- Autism and anorexia – the difference a diagnosis makes
- Unsung heroes: the role of sibling carers in eating disorder recovery
- Can people experiencing mental illness teach? Absolutely
- ‘I have so much shame, they labelled me insane’
- “Write soon! Love always.” The benefits of friendships formed through letter writing
- My body wanted me to be its friend
- Exploring the roots of fear that feed an eating disorder
- Unmasking eating disorders among people in the LGBTQIA+ community
- Listen to us: women with lived experience of severe and enduring anorexia nervosa
- Eating disorders are family disorders
- Moments of normalcy bring hope in the daily chaos of eating disorder recovery
- Facing the fear of losing ‘control’
- Eating disorders are no match for memoirist Betsy Brenner
- My diaries have a new home in the National Library of Australia
- Love and shame: exploring my most difficult emotions
- Korea’s EDAW 2024 puts epistemic justice on the table
- From post-traumatic stress to post-traumatic growth
- Slip, slide, but hope got me over the line
- The personal trainer said, ‘You have body trust issues’
- When a child develops anorexia, their family is plunged into the eating disorder world
- A reminder that one day the diary that is my life serial will end
- Epistemic Justice in Understanding Eating Disorders
- My diary today is an open book – for years it was strictly private
- From struggle to strength: Surviving anorexia and the transformative power of family support
- Family stories expose the reality of Family Based Treatment today
- Take a self-discovery tour – write your story
- Lived experience counsellors take support into the family home
- Write and everything will be all right
- Eating Disorder Families Australia launches free counselling for carers
- Share your story and help parents get their kid back
- My first pregnancy was going beautifully…until it wasn’t
- My Kid is Back: Calling families with experience of an eating disorder and family-based treatment
- Millie the Eating Disorders librarian needs a job
- The enigma called ‘High-Functioning Anorexia’
- The importance of reframing ‘terminal anorexia nervosa’ as end-of-life care
- Welcome to Life Stories Diary
- Sharing our story gives others permission to share their story too
- How my diaries led to a memoir and finding Me
- A decade of eating disorder stories in The Diary Healer archive
- Beyond my eating disorder – simple pleasures are mine to hold again
- Korea’s first Eating Disorder Awareness Week giving life to small miracles
- The Evolution of my Diary Journey
- Mirror, mirror … you are an eating disorder trigger no more
- Exploring identity after an eating disorder – who am I?
- My prize in eating disorder recovery is the opportunity to move forward
- Athleticism, anorexia and addiction: endurance for eating disorder recovery
- Things I learned from my eating disorder
- A Bright story of life beyond an eating disorder
- The day my eating disorder could no longer hide
- Maintaining eating disorder recovery through first year of college and beyond
- Feeling heard — the benefits of story-sharing during eating disorder recovery
- Shifting beliefs around diet culture and anti-fat bias
- Losing compassion for my eating disorder
Category: Anorexia
- Outsmarting the eating disorder triggers
- Writing your life story with a memoir mentor
- The ups and downs of a single mother caring for a child with anorexia
- A pebble for your thoughts
- A glimpse of life beyond a long-term eating disorder
- From LOST in anorexia nervosa to FOUND in family
- Breaking chains and building bridges for all of us
- Autism and eating disorders: a journey of acceptance and awareness
- An inside story about the hard slog of eating disorder recovery
- Voice of experience vital in major update of mental health first aid for eating disorders
- Speaking against cliched narratives about eating disorders – Korea’s powerful message
- Using journaling to unite brain with body in eating disorder recovery
- The moment I ceased denial and served anorexia notice
- Lived experience inspires Korea’s first Eating Disorders Awareness Week
- Using writing to assist healing from an eating disorder
- The benefits of exploring identity through diary writing practice
- An epiphany at 72 – it is never too late to be fully you
- Eating Disorders as Metaphors – it’s time for change
- Parenting with an eating disorder
- Aging and Eating Disorders – recovery is worthwhile at every age
- Researchers call on people with eating disorder experience for answers
- Redirecting eating disorder experience into advocacy helps to maintain recovery
- Rebuilding relationships is part of eating disorder recovery
- An eating disorder fuels a toxic relationship with self
- Understanding the healing power and teaching potential of daily diary-writing
- Grandmother’s diaries inspire a novel eating disorder story about childhood and hope
- Here’s to being imperfectly perfect and perfectly imperfect
- Sense of self and body image in anorexia nervosa: Call for participants
- The healing power of children in adult eating disorder recovery
- Using a writing mentor to support recovery from an eating disorder
- Rule-defiant poetry cuts to the core of an eating disorder
- My journey as a performing artist with anorexia nervosa
- When grief, dissociation, keeping busy, addiction and a farewell collide
- Eating disorder recovery fight inspires researcher to develop parent education course
- Rebuilding an identity is part of eating disorder recovery
Category: Art Beat of the Country
- Having the “vision, influence and strong leadership skills to achieve success”
- The many wonderful sides to Mary
- There is something special about Mary
- Positive outcomes flow when rural women unite in art to battle hard times
- On all calculations, Mary’s story about a community art project will endure
- Friendships, teamwork and hidden talents emerge in community art project
- When a feminist educator visits a country town, awakenings occur
- Retire? This farmer and teacher refired instead and went to Mongolia to share felt-making skills
- ‘Go big, go wild, go imagination, all can be done’ attitude creates fulfilling life
- How a community garden project sowed the seeds of friendship for newcomer, Hilda
- Women Who Mean Business
- Art project gave young mother confidence to pursue creative endeavours
- A bollard helped this young mother blossom with a career in the arts
- A country teaching position set this city girl on a fulfilling life path
- Enduring friendships a rich legacy of community art project
- How a community art project opened Jean’s eyes to the world
- The story-gathering process in documenting social history
- Documenting a group’s social history – where to start
Category: autism
Category: COVID-19 pandemic
- Everyday lessons in building resilience through the pandemic
- Picture this: a creative solution to managing eating disorder recovery and surviving the pandemic
Category: creative arts
Category: Dear Diary
- The story behind this website
- Benefits and risks in writing and publicly sharing your eating disorder story
- Tips to help you to self-care at home
- ‘What can I do?’ the COVID-19 pandemic
- Being true to yourself and others through writing
- Christmas message from The Diary Healer
- More Medicare support for Australians with eating disorders
- ‘A difficult daughter’ finds healing through writing
- Transforming lived-experience into peer support – an innovation in eating disorder recovery
- ‘To run you have to eat’ – how self-determination set Audry free from anorexia
- Focus eating disorder recovery on regaining identity, not the scale
- Call for compassionate care in treating eating disorders
- Researchers identify first genes linked to anorexia nervosa
- Euthanasia and Eating Disorders
- Traumatic treatment for people with eating disorders must stop
- Using the narrative to resist and break the chains of Anorexia Nervosa
- IBS is not BS – recovery really can be a pain in the guts
- Family and a village of care are vital for eating disorder recovery
- Men and boys get eating disorders too – Sam wants you to know
- Starving for Eating Disorder answers: Why We Can’t Afford to Wait
- Eating disorders are serious and we need to keep spreading this message
- Destigmatization of Eating Disorders Can’t Wait
- Raising the alarm on eating disorders: carers need care, too
- Eating disorder documentary on four-year search for peace will inspire
- The tragic cost when Dad has an eating disorder and his child does too
- Ardent health professionals promote eating disorder care in São Paulo
- The deadly cost of diversity in accessing Eating Disorder treatment
- Gut issues and eating disorders are a painful but treatable pair
- It’s time to be visible, be loud, be a nuisance about eating disorders
- How two turtles and a parrot are teaching me to love my life
- How animals help us to heal and find meaning and purpose in life
- Researchers seek parents’ help to understand eating disorder recovery
- Putting fire in the belly of eating disorder recovery services
- Recognition that ‘experience’ experts can help ED recovery
- A story of love and acceptance, and a foreign exchange
- Using diary-writing as a self-help tool to connect and heal
- Eating disorder recovery involves eating properly: Add a dash of feelings, faith, family and friends to meal time
- Lessons from a little boy who cannot speak – yet
- Sharing stories from inside out gives ED nowhere to hide
- Supporting friends and family with eating disorders
- A reflection on the journey of choosing to believe in hope
- Peeling the onion: Losing the layers of my eating disorder
- Moving on from an eating disorder with help from diary writing
- Binge-writing: The role of narrative in my eating disorder recovery
- Writing your way to self-care and self-freedom in 2019
- A holiday message of hope for those with eating disorders
- Perceived utility of genetic counseling for individuals with eating disorders
- Australians celebrate: Eating disorders become a Medicare item
- The value of diary writing goes far beyond personal use
- Why self-care is my number one job
- Turning letter-writing into a self-calming conversation
- Using journaling to recognize self-harming behaviors and reclaim your own voice
- Cultivating compassion for oneself through letter-writing: A welcome and helpful strategy for people with eating disorders
- Is anorexia planning its revenge? The reality of recovery
- When a food binge can be helpful
- Factors to consider when you feel ready to write your story
- Getting Better Bite by Bite – in English, German and now Korean
- Secrets are an eating disorder’s best friend
- Forget the scales, gaining weight as a person is the real marker in eating disorder recovery
- Beware of the challenges of the Internet for adults with eating disorders
- The home that really matters is the one I carry within
- Is food the problem? How to support someone with Binge Eating Disorder (BED)
- “I’m sorry you’re going through that, but you know you’re not alone?”
- “Aunt June, you are the problem in our family:” Using the journal to dispel stigma, inside and out
- How diary excerpts became the voice in a book about eating disorders
- Securing trust when writing a non-fiction story – feeling safe enough to share innermost thoughts and feelings
- Mapping the tides of our life through story-telling
- How caring for a sick child inspired a mother to write her first book
- So you intend to write your life story “One day”?
- The innovative “Plate-by-Plate Approach” offers guidance for parents nourishing their child through an eating disorder
- My brother in Croatia has an eating disorder
- Going about the daily business of reducing eating disorder shame
- Confronting binge eating in eating disorder recovery
- Intersectionality and eating disorders: Recognizing the impact on the LGBTQIA* community
- Stigma in eating disorders is a serious social justice issue
- Listening to the many voices of experience and digging deep within holds key to reducing stigma
- As a health professional, I felt ashamed and thought I was not sick enough to have an eating disorder
- Breaking eating disorder stigma starts at home – let’s start by addressing the stereotypes
- Can you really have an eating disorder if you look healthy?
- Breaking the eating disorder stigma: What’s white and skinny got to do with it?
- Research call for voices of experience to forge patient-led recovery model for eating disorders in Victoria, Australia
- Obliterating parent stigma in eating disorders
- Five key actions to curb eating disorders in Italy
- Dealing with an eating disorder’s double dose of stigma – from public and self
- The cost of hiding an eating disorder and pretending you are okay
- How writing a fictional story is helping Matt kick goals in real life
- Making your diary your personal advocate
- Is your diary your friend or foe?
- Sharing our story can be a powerful antidote to shame and insecurity
- How a diary can become your best friend when healing from an eating disorder
- The cycle of abuse and how I found my way out of it
- The dark, dark secret that makes an eating disorder so hard to beat, and treat
- What being diagnosed with an “old woman” disease taught me about my eating disorder
- Finding my “healthy me” voice: A story of hope and recovery from an eating disorder
- So you feel normal and in control? Beware of the mask of an eating disorder
- Why self-care must come first when caring for a person with an eating disorder – and how writing can help
- Inside Family Based Treatment for eating disorders: One mother’s experience
- How I wrote my way out of ED’s darkness
- The tale of two mothers and the illness that starves children and families
- Why write a diary?
- A grandson’s letter: Breaking the inter-generational power of an eating disorder
- My Christmas wish: Freedom from eating disorders
- Our lives have many stories…which can give hope
- Writing as therapy for eating disorders: A self-help tool for your child and yourself
- From inside the farm gate: Rural women’s stories of thriving and surviving
- Can journaling help you heal from your eating disorder?
- Listening to the patient’s narrative can turn “hopeless” into “hope”
- My friend the diary (part 3): Using your diary as a “get to know me” power tool
- My friend the diary (part 2)
- My friend the diary (part 1)
- New research in exercise and eating disorders
- Seven tips to help you navigate family gatherings this holiday season
- Toxic training: How to recognize the signs of an athlete in trouble
- The story behind the lilac ribbon: How a father’s courage has inspired a national campaign for better eating disorder care
- Listening: The next step in understanding Severe and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa
- When personal loss opens the door to an eating disorder
- Severe and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa – should we ever give up?
- Treating the trifecta – trauma, eating disorders and substance use disorder
- Love knows no boundaries in recovery
- It’s my party and I’ll be who I want to
- Bringing the voice of eating disorder experience to the clinicians’ table
- Family conflict in eating disorders and recovery
- Silencing the voice of an eating disorder: Listening to my true self
- To The Bone – What are you really looking for?
- Do you feel ready to share your eating disorder story with others?
- Climbing the mountain to freedom of self: I had to believe I deserved better
- No matter how I look, inside I am still Annie, a beautiful orange butterfly!
- Breaking the engagement with ED, the secretive, obsessive lover
- Victory over Ed: All eating disorder patients deserve treatment, support and hope
- Tried And True, Old Yet New
- When a parent accepts that their child has an eating disorder
- Eating disorder recovery: Finding happiness in relationships
- Leaning into yourself: Abandoning fear and embracing your soul’s calling
- Why this Mom is championing World Eating Disorder Healthcare Rights
- Sharing my eating disorder story with my children
- When trust is shattered in childhood: A message about the healing power of friendship
- Entering mainstream: Building a relationship with self and others after ‘Ed’
- When an eating disorder makes three in a relationship: the impact
- The powerful role of advocacy and community in eating disorder recovery
- The power of advocacy
- Finding strength in sharing feelings in verse
- Providing care ‘around the table’
- Look for Me in poetry
- What do you do when feeling deeply anxious? Jennifer writes verse
- It’s time to talk about — why I love my diary
- Discovering liberation and healing through story-sharing and advocacy
- Creating a New Home in lifestoriesdiary.com
- Opinion Articles – Sharing Stories of Hope
- Media
- News Items
- The right time to write
- Category: Books
  - June Alexander in podcast with Karin Lewis on eating disorder recovery and the diary
  - In the waiting room, there was a horse
  - The power of story-telling and why your story counts
  - The healing power in writing your memoir
  - Recovery memoir pre-publication study: inviting participants
  - How anorexia strikes fear into food and causes life to crumble
  - Fictional life story helps self-healing from eating disorder
  - Healing goes on and on with ‘Life Without Ed’
  - Feed, love and heal – the role for parents when their child develops an eating disorder
  - How diary writing helped me to survive and heal from an eating disorder
  - Never under-estimate the story-telling power of a French fry
  - Reviews for A Girl Named Tim
  - About A Girl Called Tim
  - Did my recovery experience have to be so tortuous? Could the diary help?
  - Diaries, grief and healing – through the eyes of a new book
  - Announcing: the birth of The Diary Healer
  - Getting Better Bite by Bite _ German translation
  - In sharing stories we can help others and our self
  - Olivia Rose, why I am glad I did not give up
  - Korean people get eating disorders too
  - Global eating disorder day a catalyst for hope and action
  - The patient’s story holds a lesson for all
  - Binge eat? A self-help guide for sufferers and carers
  - Survival kit for Getting Better Bite by Bite – a book for sufferers of bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorders
- Category: Eating Disorders
  - Diary of an eating disorder – how Hayley is rebuilding her life
  - ‘I’m so glad I found you!’ How story-sharing helps recovery from eating disorders
  - Poetry writing as a self-help tool when recovering from an eating disorder
  - Confronting fears on the path to freedom from an eating disorder
  - Recovery, healing and growth are compromised when addictive behaviours shield an eating disorder
  - Into the Great Wide Open: Family Risk and the Prevention of Eating Disorders (part 2)
  - Sixty years on, my diary has evolved from a private survival tool to an open family record
  - Supporting and involving families will help recovery and cut ED treatment costs
  - Finding a family in eating disorder advocacy
  - Living with autism and anorexia nervosa – exposing cracks in care
  - When an eating disorder provides a way to cope with grief
  - The Role of a Support Person in Eating Disorder Treatment
  - Carried on the Wings of Poems
  - SBS call-out for Australian stories about eating disorders in adulthood
  - Home is where eating disorder healing will happen
  - Clarity on anorexia nervosa: from childhood through motherhood
  - I’m a psychiatrist and my daughter has anorexia
  - Motherhood brought clarity to my childhood anorexia
  - The role of hope in recovery and wellbeing
  - Departing a rudderless sea to save myself
  - Changing the chatter on body image with ‘KIT’ the Chatbot
  - An Open Letter to my Anxiety (Mr A)
  - Supporting Someone with an Eating Disorder During COVID-19
  - Learning from lived experience: rating items for body image questionnaire
  - The Longest Match: defeating an eating disorder in midlife
  - Turning eating disorder thoughts into visual works of art
  - Diaries a lens for eating disorder memoir
  - When Mother’s Day hurts
  - Labelled a waste of resources and incurable – where else can an adult with an eating disorder go?
  - Waiting… for doctors to listen or for my heart to stop
  - When your child says “I hate you” remember that’s their eating disorder voice
  - This Girl Rising: online self-help eating disorder program fills gap
  - Dying but not sick enough to have a hospital bed
  - Chatbot KIT is helping to improve body image one chat at a time
  - What not to say to someone with an eating disorder
  - The perfect body illusion
  - Hospitals must treat people with eating disorders with respect
  - Studying the impact of personality traits in people with eating disorders
  - Hanging up the bikini: why I quit fitness competitions
  - How I found identity and freedom by feeding my soul
  - Mistakes are valuable lessons in eating disorder recovery
  - The Role of Faith in Recovery: A Personal Journey
  - How motherhood inspired this dancer to heal from her eating disorder
  - Is gaining weight the worst outcome for me during a global pandemic?
  - Boomer blooms after beating bulimia
  - Swapping one obsession for another- the dangers of obsessive exercise in recovery
  - Finding that one person: the key to hope and inspiration
  - Metamorphosis: the transformative work of therapy in eating disorder recovery
  - Anorexia Nervosa – common traits but incredibly personal
  - Adult experts by experience stories call for improved care for chronic eating disorders
  - Through sharing our stories, we can help beat eating disorders
  - How research into eating disorders has changed my life
  - Writing allowed me to turn my recovery into an art
  - Bulimia experience inspires Brighter Bite App to aid recovery
  - Sharing your story – is now a good time?
  - Writing connects caregivers and creates a channel for healing
  - Therapeutic writing for disordered eating: Naming the nameless
  - Surviving Anorexia Nervosa and COVID-19
  - The evolution of a diary into a self-healer
  - How Crises Can Re-Ignite Eating Disorder Thoughts
  - Morningside Chats in the Living Room: Virtual Support with Leaders in the Field of Eating Disorders
  - Isolation, loneliness and disconnection: the next pandemic-in-waiting
  - Picturing a world without my eating disorder
  - Protecting Our Kids from Diet Culture
  - Recovery IS Possible Across the Lifespan
  - An eating disorder relapse in mid-life is an opportunity for self-growth
  - Poetry explores Famine in the Family through an eating disorder lens
  - A talk on body confidence in children hits home with mother
  - Stepping out with stories to educate eating disorder clinicians
  - Astronauts, ice cream and eating disorders
  - Using two-way written narrative to unlock the anorexia prison
  - Can’t afford to wait: Tips to control and overcome your binge eating
  - Providing hope and healing for people with an eating disorder in Japan
  - Lived experience stories to boost understanding of eating disorders
  - Families and clinicians must form a shield against eating disorders
  - One Family: Learning from the Substance Use Disorder Community
  - Therapist in eating disorder recovery: Stop stereotypes, start healing
  - AED president calls for more training for frontline medical providers
  - The Israeli mom who cannot wait patiently for eating disorder change
  - The power of committed citizens in addressing eating disorder problems
  - The decline over time: why eating disorders can’t afford to wait
  - Explanation of normal and binge eating in eating disorder recovery
  - NEDIC Article April 2018
  - An Enduring Relationship: the Patient and the Therapist Who Does Not Give Up
  - Wanted: 100 research participants to compare anorexia nervosa types
  - Give blood to help crack genetic code of anorexia – researchers’ call to United States and Australia
  - Poetry and song help healing and keep advocacy wheels turning
  - Join Keanu Reeves in supporting World Eating Disorders Action Day_June 2
  - Achieving global change starts at home – so sign the pledge on Ed
  - Help researchers understand ED recovery process – share your story in survey
  - Caring starts young; let’s act like Amelia and care for our young
  - When Grandma Found her Voice: It’s Never Too Late to Recover from an Eating Disorder
  - Carers of eating disorder patients face dual challenge _ they need care too
  - Call for co-scientists in multi family therapy group research for adults
  - Professional woman in her forties, starving – what can her best friend do? Act
  - Finding room for food and feelings
  - Early intervention for adults with disordered eating – CEED seeks your help in developing a resource
  - Hear our Voice on World Eating Disorders Action Day, June 2
  - Teeth literally crumbled out of my mouth: how ED can cause a dental debacle
  - Your chance to direct eating disorder research
  - No front teeth, so hard to smile — getting the drill on ED
  - Research call for clinicians, clients and carers with experience of inpatient care eating disorder services
  - Join World Eating Disorder Action Day: June 2
  - Tribute to my bestest friend who stuck by me…when others walked away
  - ANGI is giving hope this Christmas
  - The cost of hiding an eating disorder, pretending you are okay
  - Turn the page on ED with an empowering gift this Christmas
  - When the eating disorder is all you can hear
- Category: Families
  - What path did your adult life take?
  - Parents can’t afford to wait: the price is incalculable
  - Join the cicadas chorusing loudly to advocate about eating disorders around the world
- Category: Issues
- Category: Life Writing
  - Self-publishing a memoir to industry standard – my story
  - The secret to overcoming writer’s block
  - 50 Diary of a Middle-Aged Woman
  - Encouraging our senior citizens to pick up their pens and reveal their gems
  - Unexpected life lesson on The Ghan
  - Let’s ride through COVID-19 lockdowns
  - Detachment writing and how it helped me to reclaim my voice
  - Emberlyn
  - Revisiting my childhood relationship with food
  - Look for me in a fairy tale
  - Writing our way through 2021
  - Here’s why: a story to remember, connect and inspire
  - Write 1000 words a day and your book will happen
  - Gone viral – Love will get us Through
  - ‘What can I do?’ the COVID-19 pandemic
  - Finding your inner poet
  - When disaster re-ignites past trauma, reach out
  - Being true to yourself and others through writing
  - When disaster re-ignites past trauma, reach out
  - Astronauts, ice-cream and eating disorders
  - Using two-way written narrative to escape the anorexia prison
  - Mothers, daughters and eating disorders – stories to divide or conquer
  - The story of how a river helps to write about the ebb and flow of life
  - Writing in a journal for 20 minutes a day provides a mentor for myself
  - Pets make great life story mentors and this is why
  - Stories have a role in evidence-based science
  - A foreign exchange student story 50 years on
  - Finding self-direction through daily writing
  - Lessons from a little boy who cannot speak – yet
  - How diary writing helps in moving on
  - ‘Your life is your story. Make it amazing.’
  - Writing your way to self-care and self-freedom in 2019
  - Using diary records, what kind of story will you write?
  - Writing today to heal a lost yesterday
  - Turning letter-writing into a self-calming conversation
  - Use life writing to reclaim your voice
  - Chloe adopts a lot of animals – a story by Olivia, age eight
  - Getting ready to write your story
  - Getting Better Bite by Bite – in English, German and Korean How story-telling is helping to meet the need for universal eating disorder recovery guidance
  - Using writing to uncover secrets and set the truth and you free
  - When writing leads to freedom and gaining weight in the fullness of life
  - When injustice occurs, let the written word be your sword
  - Is food the problem? How Chanty turned her experience with binge eating disorder into a book to help others
  - “I’m sorry you’re going through that, but you know you’re not alone?”
  - Securing trust when writing a non-fiction story – feeling safe enough to share innermost thoughts and feelings
  - Write, when talking is too difficult
  - About secrets, food, shame and letting go through writing
  - How my diary transitioned from a survival and coping tool to a self-healing tool
  - Telling our stories helps us to map the contours of our life
  - We take our memories with us
  - Short life stories and a magic carpet ride
  - Writing a memoir through drawing on personal diaries and other keepsakes
  - Life writing and social history
  - Share the pain so that you may grow
  - Curve balls in recovery
- Category: Mental Health Latest
  - Holistic, person-centred approach to mental health a focus in Western Australia – conference
- Category: Pick-Me-Up
- Category: Recovery Journey
  - The cost when ‘eating healthy’ becomes an eating disorder
  - Keep Quiet and Carry On: Life with PCOS
  - Getting You Back
  - Exploring the narrative: poetry
- Category: Research
  - Research calls for Australian parents and adolescents with eating disorder experience
  - Research into Severe and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa
Category: eating disorders
- Look, listen and write – there are stories in everyday life
- Public survey invites Australians to contribute to national eating disorder strategy
- Sometimes a metaphor can aid recovery
- Why an eating disorder should not be the main character of a life’s story
- Why eating disorder recovery requires a village of care
- Climbing the mountain in my mind to see who I can be (without an eating disorder)
Category: emotional eating
Category: Employment
Category: Families
Category: Ghostwriter
- Getting real with ghostwriting
- A ghostwriter can create a cherished keepsake for you
Category: June's Writing Clan
- Turning 80 can mark exciting opportunities for fresh starts
- Why I write – the Sunshine Girl
- From young child with dreams to old man with wisdom
- Sparrow learns about trust
- Leaving home with a suitcase – anything can happen
- Everything’s going to be alright – thanks to Mary Poppins
Category: LGBTQIA+
Category: Librarian
Category: Life Stories Diary
- Where do I start? Everyone has their own childhood story to untangle
- Why I write
- Story-sharing in a safe and supportive place fosters self-growth
- Write your story with self-paced memoir mentoring
Category: literature
Category: lived experience instructors
Category: memoir
- Online memoir writing classes provide benefits for all
Category: Memoir Hub
- Shine a light on memories stored in the attic of your mind
- An environment of trust in the private Memoir Hub
Category: mental health
Category: Mentor
- Aunt June, you are the problem in our family – using the journal to dispel stigma, inside and out
- Strengthening healthy self through diary-writing
Category: midlife eating disorders
Category: motherhood
Category: narrative
Category: neurodivergent
Category: News, Media and Events
- Category: Event Wraps
  - Recovery from SEAN – Video of Lecture by Dr. Rachel Bachner-Melman (with Hebrew subtitles)
  - Wellness & Wellbeing Workshop April 9, 2017
- Category: Events
- Category: News
- Category: Videos & Podcasts
Category: nurses
Category: online memoir
Category: Poetry
Category: Services
Category: sibling
Category: social history
Category: storytelling
Category: The Diary Healer News
- If only … a letter to younger self about dieting and an eating disorder
- An inside story about eating disorders in South Korea
- Australia’s peak eating disorder body steps up focus on prevention and access to care
- Getting Better Bite by Bite – in English, German, Korean and now, a Polish translation
- New book describes how narrative family therapy helps parents and children struggling with complex psychiatric problems
- Cold caller triggers childhood memories of domestic violence
- What does an eating disorder look like to you?
- Into the Great Wide Open: Family Risk and the Prevention of Eating Disorders
- More than a diagnosis: how finding my identity helped me find recovery
- The Niggle – when Anorexia and Anxiety are Partners
- Australian families unite to address gaps in eating disorder support system
- The dark side of fitness culture
- Diary writing reveals eating disorder stigma and ignorance
- June interviewed by bay 939 Geelong
- When you help the family, you help the patient
- Music video puts Ana on the run
Category: Therapeutic Tool
- Luna
- Lost and Found in the Forest of the Mind
- Using the power of writing to create hope beyond a mental health challenge
- Turning a would-be sad story into a story of happy possibilities
- A mentor can help you to not only write to survive but also to heal
Category: transgender
Category: triggers
Category: Uncategorised
- Dear Diary, I’m moving to www.lifestoriesdiary.com
- Our blood counts – 3000 Aussies give blood to help find cure for anorexia nervosa
- A conversation on why listening to the patient’s story counts
- Workshop on the diary as a therapeutic tool for eating disorders
- Journaling your way to self-renewal
- Did my recovery experience have to be so tortuous? Could the diary help?
- An Enduring Relationship: the Patient and the Therapist Who Does Not Give Up
- Diaries, grief and healing – through the eyes of a new book
- Announcing: the birth of The Diary Healer
- Wanted: 100 research participants to compare anorexia nervosa types
- Give blood to help crack genetic code of anorexia – researchers’ call to United States and Australia
- Getting Better Bite by Bite _ German translation
- Poetry and song help healing and keep advocacy wheels turning
- Join Keanu Reeves in supporting World Eating Disorders Action Day_June 2
- Achieving global change starts at home – so sign the pledge on Ed
- In sharing stories we can help others and our self
- Help researchers understand ED recovery process – share your story in survey
- Olivia Rose, why I am glad I did not give up
- Join the cicadas chorusing loudly to advocate about eating disorders around the world
- My Life is My Message (Mohandas Gandhi) sets scene for ED conference and beyond
- Caring starts young; let’s act like Amelia and care for our young
- When Grandma Found her Voice: It’s Never Too Late to Recover from an Eating Disorder
- Carers of eating disorder patients face dual challenge _ they need care too
- Korean people get eating disorders too
- Call for co-scientists in multi family therapy group research for adults
- Professional woman in her forties, starving – what can her best friend do? Act
- Finding room for food and feelings
- Global eating disorder day a catalyst for hope and action
- Get on board with World Eating Disorders Action Day
- Early intervention for adults with disordered eating – CEED seeks your help in developing a resource
- Hear our Voice on World Eating Disorders Action Day, June 2
- Women, let’s love our imperfections and celebrate being woman
- Teeth literally crumbled out of my mouth: how ED can cause a dental debacle
- Your chance to direct eating disorder research
- Holistic, person-centred approach to mental health a focus in Western Australia – conference
- What do you like or dislike about you?
- Music video puts Ana on the run
- No front teeth, so hard to smile — getting the drill on ED
- The patient’s story holds a lesson for all
- Research call for clinicians, clients and carers with experience of inpatient care eating disorder services
- Binge eat? A self-help guide for sufferers and carers
- Tribute to my bestest friend who stuck by me…when others walked away
- Join World Eating Disorder Action Day: June 2
- Survival kit for Getting Better Bite by Bite – a book for sufferers of bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorders
- ANGI is giving hope this Christmas
- Family, friends, health and peace _ giving thanks this Christmas
- Getting Better Bite by Bite – Give Yourself a Gift
- The Diary – patriot or traitor
- Families and friends, like rings on a tree, are part of me
- Thanks, Doctor, for ‘not beating about the bush’
- Grandma, can I ride on your chariot?
- Grandma’s great hospital escapade _ have chariot will travel
- Healing: a never-ending process of self-discovery
- Healing goes on and on with ‘Life Without Ed’
- Putting mental ill health on the table in Australia – yes, your voice counts
- Research call for eating disorder caregivers – how the extended family can help
- Coming out proud to shoo away stigma
- Bite Sized: a mother’s story
- Dear Olivia Rose, why I’m glad you love rainbows
- Rainbow shows the way in eating disorders – aim high, aim for the sky
- Living: carers and caring, friends and sharing
- Take note: Morning rush is all part of taking care of your self
- Taking Care of Your Self – ‘This Is Your Story’ Workshop
- Holding on to hope and taking a new path leads to Boston
- ‘Hello, you don’t know me’ — it helps to know you are not alone with ED
- Fiction and eating disorders – exploring connections in story-telling
- Dear Mother, the eating disorder took so much from us
- Throwing starfish across the sea – a message for you and me
- Eating Disorders – guidance for family members
- Socking it to ED_take a look
- Fear no more: get fierce at Australia’s At Home with Eating Disorders Conference
- Grandparents can gain freedom from eating disorders too
- You did not cause the eating disorder but you can help the healing
- Seventeen stories of eating disorder survival
- Paper Cuts is the story about Jess – a film exposing mental health issues
- 1000 and counting – trailblazing research in fight against ED
- Reflection a tool for self-discovery and renewal
- Get in the know with ED 101 video
- From patient to researcher – sharing the journey
- When the patient becomes the researcher
- Mobile health app helping ANGI to crack genetic code of Anorexia
- Grandmothers can beat eating disorders too
- Research call for Queensland eating disorder caregivers – how the extended family can help
- Advocacy: Helping others is a great way to help our own Self
- The Diary Healer – bridging the gap between science and the sufferer – sharing a PhD journey
- How a chocolate fish came to cross the ocean blue in bid for Anorexia cure
- A feast for the soul, a magic carpet for the mind – that’s life writing
- Getting Better Bite by Bite – how you can help with 2nd edition
- Can stories of survival help others?
- Farewell Ginger and Dora – carers supreme
- Finding support in an online family and community – share your story
- Let’s all dance, and dance and dance
- Thank you to Laura – the eating disorder advocate extraordinaire
- Oh for when treating eating disorders is as easy as a walk in the park
- Rolling up our sleeves to help ANGI find a cure
- Yes, I have a dream: the sock as a universal symbol of hope in stomping out ED
- Let’s get REAL about eating disorders
- A Girl Called Tim – An Eating Disorder Memoir By June Alexander
- A call to poets – for poems about eating disorders
- Listen: the voice of the nurse in eating disorder care
- Calling diary and journal writers with experience of an eating disorder
- Taking issue with ‘non-compliant’ in eating disorder care
- Friendship is a treasure to love and cherish, forever
- ANGI on track for 25,000 blood samples to detect Anorexia gene
- Meet my friend, the diary
- Trust in your true self and your path becomes clear
- The journal – an ally in eating disorder recovery
- Diary writing – a tool for healing and self-renewal
- Online study about stigma – share your experience
- Defusing the bully – DVD shows how to help someone recover from an eating disorder
- Eating disorders are family disorders – NIMH director speaks from the heart
- A day out with ‘ED’ – lobbying in Washington DC
- No shut down on eating disorders in Washington DC
- Multi-family therapy – providing strength and support for families
- Lunch at Covent Garden and feeling understood – boo to you, Anorexia Nervosa
- ‘The struggle is my life’ – and this is what makes it worthwhile
- Punting on the River Cam – this is living
- App-ily building bridges in eating disorder care and recovery
- Tonight a literary dinner with my friend Pooky and others
- Why Laura is giving her birthday away this year
- Catching the NEDA ‘Bug’ – you’ll find it in Washington DC
- In a queue at Madame Tussauds, talking about eating disorders
- Up and away on seven-week book research trip to unravel the mystery of ED
- Getting out of BED – a guide for clinicians
- Hear this: healing requires a team effort
- Body image and eating disorders – on the same track?
- Donating blood to find a cure for Anorexia Nervosa – makes my life count
- Breaking Free from the Illness that Hides
- It’s not like you have cancer or any life threatening illness – family doctor
- Life-writing is candy for my soul
- You look lovely in that dress – does a trigger go off?
- Opportunity to be a recovery mentor – it helps you, too
- Assessing a new clinical resource for Anorexia Nervosa: Stories of recovery
- Carers needed for peer support research
- Now you can be At Home with Eating Disorders – free video access
- A stitch in time – and in the moment
- Memoirs on eating disorders – what did you find helpful?
- Aussies ready to roll up their sleeves for ANGI – C’mon!
- The tipping point in recovery from enduring AN – understanding that magical moment
- A lesson for teachers in addressing the eating disorder bully
- Conference sparks hope, fresh focus on connections and skills for eating disorder sufferers
- Meet Bulimia – the eating disorder bully you cannot see
- Feeling isolated and need support? Call Butterfly’s national helpline
- A hug reminds a researcher of why his work matters
- Tools and hope inspire all in quest to oust ‘Ed’
- Binge Eating Disorder out of the closet
- Families and carers the greatest motivators
- Rolling up our sleeves for science
- Cat purrs and hugs – ready for Aussie ‘first’ in Brisbane
- Roll up your sleeve for science! I can hardly wait
- Parents of children with eating disorders – it’s not your fault
- Writing our own life canvas
- Chronic anorexia – new treatment focus offers hope
- Meet the mum behind The Boy Who Loved Apples
- Hope and trust – a winning duo against anorexia
- Kate’s pedal power to help Beat the stigma
- As a mother, I see Ed clearly from both sides now
- Why I love my body and I do really care
- Write about your life and make it count
- Turn the page on ED – meet the authors in Brisbane
- Aussies crack 200 for Brisbane – look out, Ed!
- To beat ‘Ed’, we need to come out and shout!
- It’s time for the Eating Disorder conference world to welcome sufferers
- Sufferers – an untapped resource in the field of eating disorders
- Rowing Oxford to London to Beat eating disorders
- Midlife Eating Disorders – yes, they do happen
- Seeing the unseen: young males get eating disorders too
- ‘Coming out’ with an eating disorder – so glad I did
- Eating a cup cake at Easter
- Eating disorders are NOT rare – obesity v. eating disorders
- Recovery guide for sufferers – focus of Janet Treasure’s new book
- Mum, I want you out of my life – a turning point for recovery
- Chewing and spitting harmful for teeth
- Red book a teacher for carers – ED specialist
- Eating Disorders in Mid Life – Learning to feed me instead of Ed
- A smile: the untold cost of an eating disorder
- No front teeth, so hard to smile
- Who is The Biggest Loser? We are, if we don’t take a stand
- Midlife eating disorders – hear Professor Bulik in Brisbane
- Educating dentists about ‘Ed’ – share your story
- Exercising during AN recovery – good or bad? Research call for survivors to share experience
- Recovery is brilliant – come to Brisbane and find out
- Ed says U said – a book for U
- Roses are red, there’s life after Ed
- Bye bye to bully ‘ED’
- B an early bird for Brisbane
- Karen’s life had ‘only just begun’
- Translating Ed’s talk
- Sock it to ED
- Aussies kick ED for six
- Getting out of BED
- Seeing red with Ed says U said
- Soaring – beyond ED
- OBE for Janet Treasure
- Helping the helpers
- At Home with Eating Disorders – book now!
- Australian conference to show eating disorders the door
- Aussies At Home with Eating Disorder Care
- Eating disorders – what helps?
- Icing on my cake of life
- When FBT fails – research call to parents
- Why we need a 24-hour eating disorder support line
- Hindsight – a book by parents for parents
- 1500 signatures – revealing the cost of silent suffering
- ED behaviours and weight concerns common in women over 50
- 500 call for 24-hour support line
- Relapse – a phone call can defuse the trigger
- Sign petition for 24-hour help line
- Message from Andrea – now it’s hospital at home
- Stop fearmongering anti-obesity campaign
- To exercise or not – new study on anorexia
- Where there is life, there is hope
- A bed for Andrea but too many waiting
- A plea for Andrea – a bed before she is dead
- Jenny Craig call has nourishing outcome
- Faith and love the most powerful tonics of all
- Arms full of books and head full of ED
- No bed for mother critically ill with anorexia – wrong postcode
- Unchecked, ED has no use-by date
- At Home with Eating Disorders – a conference for Aussies
- Children show us that living in the moment is what counts
- Write and everything will be all right
- No diets in my house
- I’ve got an eating disorder – what do you say?
- An illness in the brain
- When mother has an eating disorder
- Understanding why we cling to ED
- Bin the diet, feed the soul
- Weighing up online support
- Turning the pages on a Continuous Appetite
- Beware of ‘ED’ the marriage gatecrasher
- Mentoring – a gem in the recovery toolbag
- NEDA Joins Protest Against Jenny Craig
- Two acute beds for more than 7 million – no joke
- National website to fight ED
- ‘Love your body’ is not enough – we need to understand us, too
- AED adds voice to Jenny Craig protest
- Open Letter to sign – for our girls
- Expert carer coaches – a spark in the ED darkness
- Educators, take the blinkers off
- When thin is normal
- Standing up to the diet industry
- Once bitten, twice determined
- Sign the petition – save a life
- Diet industry has no place in school environment
- Red Riding Hood re-visited: a nightmare that must be stopped
- The fine line between caring and over-caring
- You Just Don’t Get It
- A case of ‘a little bit of Bulimia’
- A mother with a broken heart, smiling
- There really is Hope at Every Age
- No eating disorder is an island
- Journaling releases the voice of true self
- Self-compassion – with Josie Geller
- A mother’s love never gives up
- A daughter’s plea for caregivers
- ED says U said no to TwistED
- When running is not fun
- A ‘War Cry’ helps to beat ED
- Insurance project responds to voice of experience
- Helping our doctors learn about ED
- ED says U said – untwisting eating disorder talk
- Never too late to make a splash
- The day I divorced ‘Ed’
- ‘Just eat’ – the doctor said
- Offering hope – all over the web
- Taking the Anorexia Battle to the Defence Force
- Recovery is – freedom to be
- When knowledge is not enough – a mother’s frustration
- When exercise is not fun
- Looking in the Mirror
- Maudsley in the media
- Playing tug of war with ED
- Getting your kid back
- Hungry for an appetite
- An Appetite for Recovery
- Aim for the full cherry of life – it’s delicious
- Breaking free from thoughts that imprison us
- Moving from an Eating Disorder’s Half-life to Your Full Life
- FEAST conference for Australia
- Slip, slide, but hope got me over the line
- No turning back
- Feeling snug in the family tree
- Freedom is three meals a day
Category: Uncategorized
- Cultivating compassion for oneself through letter-writing: A helpful and welcome strategy for people with eating disorders
- How writing helped me to find my home within
- When feeling ‘stuck’ in a situation, try writing your way out
- How diary excerpts can be used to create a book
Category: weight loss drugs
Category: weight loss industry
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- Looking after our wellbeing through story-telling
- So you intend to write your life story “One day”?
- Preserving your life story made easy
Category: writing classes

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