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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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Reminder! Tonight at 7pm is our virtual kick-off event for our Brave Letters campaign to demand change from Canadian politicians for community-based treatment. Sign up to hear from an incredible panel about their experiences and how to push for change! https://bodybrave.ca/brave-letters/

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Join Body Brave for the 2nd annual virtual international Body Peace Virtual Conference. Nov 19 & 20, 2020!
Over two days, you’ll hear from people with lived experience, clinicians and caregivers from around the world. #bodypeaceconference #edrecovery #bodypeace #eatingdisorder

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Save the date: @HarvardSTRIPED, @aedweb & @D_AccessEcon (@Deloitte) are publishing the first-ever report on the economic cost of #eatingdisorders in the #US on June 24 at 5 PM ET. Click https://bit.ly/2BlSmfA to watch the report launch live. #EDawareness

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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.

#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!

May 6 is #internationalnodietday (INDD) Beginning

May 6 is #internationalnodietday (INDD)
Beginning in 1992 in the UK and founded by Mary Evans Young, INDD began as a celebration of body acceptance and shape diversity. Awareness of the dangers of dieting, including the role that dieting can play in the development of eating disorders, are also a major component of the day.
Swipe 👆for ideas about how you can practice the principles of Body Respect in your daily life, and check out the goals of INDD below 👀:
• question the idea of one “right” body shape • raise awareness of weight discrimination, size bias, and fat phobia
• declare a moratorium on diet/weight obsession
• celebrate the beauty and diversity of our natural shapes and sizes
• affirm everyone’s right to health, fitness, and emotional well-being
• honour the victims of eating disorders and weight-loss interventions
• increase public awareness of damage done to physical, emotional and financial health due to dieting (Tips courtesy of @the_nedic and @westwindeatingdisorderrecovery )

#eatingdisorderawareness #mentalhealthweek #edrecovery #bodypositive #worthbeyondweight

A huge thank you to our volunteers this #nationalv

A huge thank you to our volunteers this #nationalvolunteerweek . Thank you for all your help, support, insight, and heart!

🙌 for #edaw2020 💜 Thank you for sharing your

🙌 for #edaw2020 💜 Thank you for sharing your stories, hearts, and time with us this EDAW- it was wonderful meeting so many of you! This is truly such a caring, brave, and compassionate community 🎗 **Winners of our Rest Day Giveaway contests will be announced by the end of next week; we will connect with winners via private message (on the platform they used to enter the contest).
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#alberta #showusyourpurple #eatingdisordersawarenessweek

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