Eating Disorder Awareness Week 2026: Health Doesn’t Have a Look.

Eating Disorders Awareness Week takes place February 1-7 every year in Canada.

We invite you and your community to challenge the harmful belief that thinness equals health. Messages rooted in diet culture, weight stigma, and healthism can negatively impact how people view their bodies and their relationship with food. These ideas don’t just cause individual harm – they are part of broader systems that unfairly judge, exclude, and marginalize those who don’t fit our society’s narrow appearance standards. Let’s work together to promote body respect, inclusion, and a more compassionate understanding of health.

What are the goals of this year’s campaign?

• Take action at every level —in your own life, in your community, and within larger health and social systems — to break the power of diet culture and challenge weight stigma
• Learn the tools to spot and resist harmful messages that shape how we see food, body size, and movement
• Create safe, welcoming spaces that don’t focus on weight — at home, at school, in healthcare, and on social media
• Explore trusted resources and services

Eating disorders affect people of all genders, sexual orientations, ages, socioeconomic classes, abilities, races, and ethnic backgrounds. That is why eating disorder groups across Canada unite to mark EDAW with a national week of action aimed at educating the public, highlighting available supports, and advocating for meaningful change.

EDAW is a collective effort from coast-to-coast-to-coast. Participating organizations across the country will host local events, light landmarks in purple, and engage in public education campaigns to raise awareness and foster understanding about eating disorders.

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About This Workshop

Body image is often a concern for people with eating disorders, and broader disordered eating, and can arise at any point in one’s life. The general perception that health has an appearance, societal norms around size, the impact of aging and hormonal changes, social media, and other contributing factors can all impact how we see -and feel about- ourselves.

Explore and practice tangible, practical tools in this one-time ONLINE, strategy-based group. Open to individuals 18+ across Canada, this professionally facilitated workshop promotes self discovery in a safe space, offering an opportunity to build on existing strengths while gently challenging fears, feelings, and beliefs about our bodies.