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Providing facilitated support groups to individuals and family members dealing with eating disorders is a key objective for EDSNA.

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Eating disorders are serious mental health conditions that can have life threatening consequences. We have information on treatment options in Alberta to assist you find the help you need.

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Support Groups and COVID-19

ALL EDSNA PROGRAMMING IS CURRENTLY

WAITLIST: Online Support Group for People Who Experience Binge Eating

October 12 - December 31

WAITLIST: Support Group for Women Over 40 with Eating Disorders /Disordered Eating

October 12 - December 31

Using Intuitive Eating: Meal Supports & Strategies for People with Disordered Eating

October 22 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Reconnecting: Coping Strategies That Support Recovery

October 26 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

ONLINE DROP-IN Support Group for Parents & Caregivers

October 28 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

ONLINE Support Group for People with Eating Disorders/Disordered Eating

November 2 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

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The Eating Disorder Support Network of Alberta is committed to reducing stigma and offering help at all stages of recovery to those affected by EDs.

While this year in particular has been a rollercoa

While this year in particular has been a rollercoaster for many, we might also need a little more support when unusual or stressful situations happen at other points in our lives. This can include events like seasonal holidays, job changes, or exam time.

This interactive, 2-hour online workshop will offer support strategies and tips for those working through their own eating disorder recovery journey, especially during those extra stressful parts of our lives.

Topics covered will include, but are not limited to:

🟣Coping strategies during stressful times

🟣Coping strategies to support ongoing recovery

🟣Identifying signs of relapse and accessing additional supports

As with all EDSNA support groups, this is a supportive workshop, not treatment. We urge you to connect with other qualified treatment professionals, including your treatment team, for help that is unique to you.

You can register for this workshop through the link in our bio.

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We've got five (5) more drop-in sessions for paren

We've got five (5) more drop-in sessions for parents, partners, and loved ones happening this fall. If you (or someone you know) would benefit from peer connection, education, self-care strategies, and other supportive ideas, this might be the group for you! To register or to find out more, visit our website through the link in our bio.

Remember, you don't have to do this alone.

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CHANGING THE NARRATIVE: Unlearning Diet Culture,

CHANGING THE NARRATIVE:
Unlearning Diet Culture, Self Compassion, and Boundaries—————————————
🟣3 Part Education Series🟣
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You deserve to care for yourself in a way that supports all aspects of your well being. You deserve to live a full and joyful life, free from food rules and restrictions. Join Registered Psychologist Katie Poirier (@poiriercounselling_yeg) and Weight-Inclusive Registered Dietitian Kalin Herbach (@the_nourishco), in changing the narrative around food and your body.
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Weekly Topics:
November 18th, 2020
🟣Unlearning Diet Culture🟣
Diet culture is a system of beliefs that teaches us that our bodies can’t be trusted. Learn supportive strategies to assist with opting out of diet culture, which can unlock areas of joy in your life that were previously being restricted. Suggestions for cultivating a positive social media feed, and media literacy, will also be discussed.

November 25th, 2020
🟣Self Compassion🟣
We will explore the three elements of self compassion, common misconceptions about this topic, and what it means to care for yourself compassionately.

December 2nd, 2020
🟣Boundaries & Relationships🟣
Setting boundaries helps you honour who you are. Learn how to set and maintain boundaries for your well-being. Learn how to approach difficult conversations with loved ones around diet culture rhetoric.
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🟣LINK IN BIO TO REGISTER. Registration fee for this series includes all three sessions. Participants are encouraged to attend all three dates in order to get maximum benefit from this educational series.
**Please note, this series is only open to individuals over the age of 18 years old.
--THIS IS NOT A TREATMENT GROUP --

#blackouttuesday . Eating disorders can affect any

#blackouttuesday .
Eating disorders can affect anyone, but the colour of your skin may also affect how accessible treatment and support are for you.
Racial bias and racism need to be acknowledged.
This can’t continue.

Redefining Health: Changing The Narrative
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You deserve to care for yourself in a way that supports all aspects of your well being.
You deserve to live a full and joyful life, free from food rules and restriction.

Our culture promotes a finite, set definition of health, that ultimately equates thinness to health. The pursuit of “health” within our society can lead to behaviours that actually take away from your health and well being, and makes your world smaller. The best-known environmental contributor to the development of eating disorders is the sociocultural idealization of thinness (Culbert et al., 2015). Redefining health is essential for everyone in our society, but is especially important for folks that don’t match up with diet culture’s supposed “picture of health”. The weight, shape or size of someone’s body doesn’t tell us anything about how they are caring for themselves or whether they are “healthy” or not.
Health exists on a continuum that varies with time, circumstance, privilege and looks different for every body. Many people on the journey of eating disorder recovery find the word “health/healthy” to be triggering and riddled with tricky meaning. In their work with clients, Katie Poirier (Registered Psychologist @poiriercounselling_yeg) and Kalin Herbach (Registered Dietitian @kalinhrd) have helped people in recovery explore health in new ways. Here are several new pieces they’ve witnessed clients add to their narrative around health. Health is:
𒊹︎Freedom with food (not freedom FROM it)
𒊹︎Honouring and establishing boundaries with people in our lives
𒊹︎Learning about our bodies and emotions
𒊹︎Unconditional acceptance for our bodies and who we are as people
𒊹︎Allowing more “grey area” instead of black and white (particularly when it comes to food)
𒊹︎Embracing the power of food as part of communion (community)
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Katie and Kalin will be expanding on these ideas and more in a webinar coming up on June 2, World Eating Disorders Day (@worldeatingdisordersday). Stay tuned for more info!

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