IMPOWERED: ED & MH Recovery

This special episode of IMPOWERED welcomes back the wonderful Sophie Smith to discuss navigating Christmas in recovery from an eating disorder. Tune in on how to cope with guilt after meals, body image, diet-culture chat around the dinner table, and challenging eating disorder behaviours during the festive season. 

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Connect with Sophie!

Sophie's Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/sophie_beyondrecovery/

Coaching: 

https://www.uncovery.com.au/contact

Sophie's Twitter:

https://twitter.com/sophieclare1103?lang=en 

Connect with Imogen:

Podcast Instagram: 

https://www.instagram.com/impowered_pod/?hl=en

IM_POWERING: 

https://www.instagram.com/im_powering/?hl=en 

Support Services:

•  Lifeline Australia: Call 13 11 14

•  Beyond Blue Support Service: Call 1300 22 4636

•  The butterfly foundation: Call 1800 HOPE (1800 33 4673) https://butterfly.org.au

•  Kids helpline: Call 1800 55 1800

•  Eating disorders Victoria: 1300 550 236 https://www.eatingdisorders.org.au

•  National Eating Disorders Collaboration: https://nedc.com.au

•  Eating Disorders Queensland: https://eatingdisordersqueensland.org.au

•  General Mental Health Support Services (Helplines/Hotlines): https://www.mentalhealthhelp.com.au/service-directory/helplines/

This episode brings you the PHENOMENAL Caz Baumber, an eating disorder and mental health conqueror, advocate, coach, and Doctor residing in the UK. Caz is making monumental movements in eating disorder awareness and treatment spaces, in person and online. Her knowledge, lived experience, and passion is driving change from both patient and provider perspectives. In our discussion, we talk to topics including Caz’s personal recovery journey, quasi recovery, the role of social media on the healing process, the impact of disordered eating behaviours in the context of human biology, and practical tips to cope with weight changes. If you’d like to get in contact with Caz at all, or even enquire into her coaching availability, you’ll be able to find links to her whereabouts in the show notes below. What an incredible human she is.

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Connect with Caz

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/caz.ually/?hl=en

Coaching & More:

https://linktr.ee/caz.ually

Connect with Imogen:

Podcast Instagram: 

https://www.instagram.com/impowered_pod/?hl=en

IM_POWERING: 

https://www.instagram.com/im_powering/?hl=en 

Support Services:

•  Lifeline Australia: Call 13 11 14

•  Beyond Blue Support Service: Call 1300 22 4636

•  The butterfly foundation: Call 1800 HOPE (1800 33 4673) https://butterfly.org.au

•  Kids helpline: Call 1800 55 1800

•  Eating disorders Victoria: 1300 550 236 https://www.eatingdisorders.org.au

•  National Eating Disorders Collaboration: https://nedc.com.au

•  Eating Disorders Queensland: https://eatingdisordersqueensland.org.au

•  General Mental Health Support Services (Helplines/Hotlines): https://www.mentalhealthhelp.com.au/service-directory/helplines/

In this episode, Emily shares her experience with Bulimia and navigating a treatment world that reflects a complete misunderstanding as to the honest nature of her suffering. She details the ins and outs of her experience and offers the lesser spoken perspective of someone who’s eating disorder is not food or body centric. Emily is insightful, inspiring, and speaks words the world needs to hear.

// Plug in and prepare to be IMPOWERED

Connect with Emily:

https://www.instagram.com/emilysamama/?hl=en

Connect with me:

Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/impowered_pod/?hl=en

IM_POWERING: https://www.instagram.com/im_powering/?hl=en

Support Services:

•  Lifeline Australia: Call 13 11 14

•  Beyond Blue Support Service: Call 1300 22 4636

•  The butterfly foundation: Call 1800 HOPE (1800 33 4673) https://butterfly.org.au

•  Kids helpline: Call 1800 55 1800

•  Eating disorders Victoria: 1300 550 236 https://www.eatingdisorders.org.au

•  National Eating Disorders Collaboration: https://nedc.com.au

•  Eating Disorders Queensland: https://eatingdisordersqueensland.org.au

•  General Mental Health Support Services (Helplines/Hotlines): https://www.mentalhealthhelp.com.au/service-directory/helplines/

When you look back upon the time you spent living with an eating disorder, do you tend to see it through rose tainted glasses? You won’t for long.

In this weeks episode, I read aloud YOUR description of what it’s like to live with an Eating Disorder and reveal how truly miserable it is to sustain such an illness.

// Plug in and prepare to be IMPOWERED 

Connect with me: 

Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/impowered_pod/?hl=en

IM_POWERING: https://www.instagram.com/im_powering/?hl=en

Support Services:

•  Lifeline Australia: Call 13 11 14

•  Beyond Blue Support Service: Call 1300 22 4636 

•  The butterfly foundation: Call 1800 HOPE (1800 33 4673) https://butterfly.org.au 

•  Kids helpline: Call 1800 55 1800 

•  Eating disorders Victoria: 1300 550 236 https://www.eatingdisorders.org.au 

•  National Eating Disorders Collaboration: https://nedc.com.au 

•  Eating Disorders Queensland: https://eatingdisordersqueensland.org.au 

•  General Mental Health Support Services (Helplines/Hotlines): https://www.mentalhealthhelp.com.au/service-directory/helplines/ 

Questions about my eating disorder recovery: you asked, I answered.

In this episode:

• A life ramble
• My relationship with exercise and how I’ve embraced an intuitive relationship with movement
• How to cope with body changes
• Reframing weight gain
• Reasons to embrace weight restoration
• Giving yourself permission to eat alone
• Dealing with people commenting on your body

This is a happy, filter free ramble that I hope finds your ears

// Plug in and prepare to be IMPOWERED 

Connect with me: 

Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/impowered_pod/?hl=en

IM_POWERING: https://www.instagram.com/im_powering/?hl=en

Support Services:

•  Lifeline Australia: Call 13 11 14
•  Beyond Blue Support Service: Call 1300 22 4636 
•  The butterfly foundation: Call 1800 HOPE (1800 33 4673) https://butterfly.org.au 
•  Kids helpline: Call 1800 55 1800 
•  Eating disorders Victoria: 1300 550 236 https://www.eatingdisorders.org.au 
•  National Eating Disorders Collaboration: https://nedc.com.au 
•  Eating Disorders Queensland: https://eatingdisordersqueensland.org.au 
•  General Mental Health Support Services (Helplines/Hotlines): https://www.mentalhealthhelp.com.au/service-directory/helplines/ 

Questions about my eating disorder recovery and mental health: you asked, I answered.

In this episode:

• Medications for mental health: my experience 
• Treatment: inpatient and community 
• Eating disorders and friendships
• How food regularity + adequacy improves your mood and overall quality of life
• Navigating study: high school, higher education, and knowing what's important 
• & so much more

This is a happy, filter free ramble that I hope finds your ears

// Plug in and prepare to be IMPOWERED 

Connect with me: 

Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/impowered_pod/?hl=en

IM_POWERING: https://www.instagram.com/im_powering/?hl=en

Support Services:

• Lifeline Australia: Call 13 11 14
• Beyond Blue Support Service: Call 1300 22 4636 
• The butterfly foundation: Call 1800 HOPE (1800 33 4673) https://butterfly.org.au 
• Kids helpline: Call 1800 55 1800 
• Eating disorders Victoria: 1300 550 236 https://www.eatingdisorders.org.au 
• National Eating Disorders Collaboration: https://nedc.com.au 
• Eating Disorders Queensland: https://eatingdisordersqueensland.org.au 
• General Mental Health Support Services (Helplines/Hotlines): https://www.mentalhealthhelp.com.au/service-directory/helplines/ 

In this episode, I had the true joy of speaking with Dr Gennifer Gaudiani, or doctor G. For those who might not know, Dr G offers expert medical care for eating disorders and is deeply passionate about supporting adolescents and adults who have a complicated relationship with food and their body. Dr G founded the Gaudiani Clinic in 2016, which offers unique, expert outpatient eating disorder treatment for disordered eating of all shapes and sizes. On top of this groundbreaking work, Dr G is the renowed author of SICK ENOUGH, a guide to the medical complications of eating disorders, which provides patients, families and treatment providers with easy to understand information on medical issues involved in an eating disorder.

Dr G is a wealth of information and is truly revolutionising the treatment of eating disorders. 

In this episode:

• Dr G's personal experience with an eating disorder
• The medical complications involved in an eating disorder
• How the treatment system fails patients
• Anorexia is anorexia 
• What it means to biologically respond to a perceived famine
• Advocating for the treatment you deserve 
• The flaws in societal beauty standards
• How and why you are sick enough (regardless of how you eating disorder physically manifests)
• The misconceptions and stereotypes surrounding disordered eating
• Consensual treatment
• The irrelevance of the BMI scale 
• And so much more!

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Plug in and prepare to be IMPOWERED

Connect with Dr G:

Dr G: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaudianimd?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gaudianiclinic.com

The Gaudiani Clinic: https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=dr+gennifer+gaudiani&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Sick Enough: https://www.sickenough.com

Gaudiani Clinic Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gaudianiclinic/

Support Services:

• Lifeline Australia: Call 13 11 14

• Beyond Blue Support Service: Call 1300 22 4636

• The butterfly foundation: Call 1800 HOPE (1800 33 4673) https://butterfly.org.au

• Kids helpline: Call 1800 55 1800

• Eating disorders Victoria: 1300 550 236 https://www.eatingdisorders.org.au

• National Eating Disorders Collaboration: https://nedc.com.au

• Eating Disorders Queensland: https://eatingdisordersqueensland.org.au

• General Mental Health Support Services (Helplines/Hotlines): https://www.mentalhealthhelp.com.au/service-directory/helplines/

You don't have to shrink to feel fulfilled, happy or healthy!

Emma Clarke is an Accredited Sports Nutritionist and all around LEGEND who reclaimed her life from the grips of diet culture. She has now dedicated her work and world to supporting others to do this same. She's one of a kind. Emma's super passionate about fuelling to thrive and be mentally, physically and emotionally strong vs small. In this pod we discuss Emma’s experience dancing with diet culture and healing her relairtonshop with food, movement and her body.

In this episode:

• Emma’s experience with disordered eating, orthorexia, and breaking free from food rules
• Societies preoccupation with health and how it prevents orthorexia from being recognised
• Consumed by comparison and “influencers”
• Falling victim to misinformation and unrealistic standards
• Depriving yourself of the ability to live life to the fullest
• Shrinking your body = shrinking your life
• How the quest to “be healthy” ironically makes a lot of us unhealthy
• Missing out on life to fit a toxic mould
• FOOD IS MORE THAN FUEL
• The mental and physical side effects of restriction
• Extreme hunger
• Fuelling to thrive in ALL areas of your life
• Stepping back from social media and reducing comparison in our lives
• Straying from veganism
• Redefining how you view food and health

Harsh truth:
“It’s not a healthy lifestyle if it takes away your health” - Emma Clark.

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 Plug in and prepare to be IMPOWERED

Connect with Emma:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emmaclarke_nutrition/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/EmmaClarke31
• Website & COACHING: https://www.emmaclarkenutrition.com

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Support Services:

• Lifeline Australia: Call 13 11 14

• Beyond Blue Support Service: Call 1300 22 4636

• The butterfly foundation: Call 1800 HOPE (1800 33 4673) https://butterfly.org.au

• Kids helpline: Call 1800 55 1800

• Eating disorders Victoria: 1300 550 236 https://www.eatingdisorders.org.au

• National Eating Disorders Collaboration: https://nedc.com.au

• Eating Disorders Queensland: https://eatingdisordersqueensland.org.au

• General Mental Health Support Services (Helplines/Hotlines): https://www.mentalhealthhelp.com.au/service-directory/helplines/

In this solo episode, I tell my OCD story from my heart. I divulge all the way in which OCD manifested itself in my life and wrecked havoc on my existence. Through my story, I dismantle the myths and misconceptions that surround the concept of OCD and shed light on the embarrassing, sometimes ridiculous ways in which it can dictate your existence. I also share how I have overcome my OCD and become stronger in the face of my Eating Disorder doing so.

In this episode:

• My childhood with OCD
  
• Harm OCD
  
• Magical thinking
  
• Intrusive thoughts
  
• Contamination OCD
  
• Exposure Response Prevention Therapy
  
• OCD expectation vs. reality
  
• How my OCD gave life to my Eating Disorder
  
• Overcoming obsessions and compulsions
  
• OCD/ED treatment
  
• & so much more!
  

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 Plug in and prepare to be IMPOWERED

Connect with Me:

 • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/im_powering/?hl=en

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Support Services:

• Lifeline Australia: Call 13 11 14
  
• Beyond Blue Support Service: Call 1300 22 4636
  
• The butterfly foundation: Call 1800 HOPE (1800 33 4673) https://butterfly.org.au
  
• Kids helpline: Call 1800 55 1800
  
• Eating disorders Victoria: 1300 550 236 https://www.eatingdisorders.org.au
  
• National Eating Disorders Collaboration: https://nedc.com.au
  
• Eating Disorders Queensland: https://eatingdisordersqueensland.org.au
  
• General Mental Health Support Services (Helplines/Hotlines): https://www.mentalhealthhelp.com.au/service-directory/helplines/

Katie Parrott joins me in this episode to discuss what it’s like to be a person living shamelessly in a larger body, her story with an eating disorder, the struggle of having your experienced be illegitimised when you don’t fit the BS eating disorder mould, fashion, activism and everything in between.

In this episode:

- Katie’s eating disorder story

- Having your struggle invalidated

- Body acceptance

- Normalising diverse bodies

- Why “fat” is not a bad word

- Passion for fashion

- Decoupling exercise from weight loss and thinness

- Living a normal life

- Fat-positive activism

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 Plug in and prepare to be IMPOWERED

Connect with Katie:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katie_parrott/?hl=en

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Support Services:

• Lifeline Australia: Call 13 11 14

• Beyond Blue Support Service: Call 1300 22 4636

• The butterfly foundation: Call 1800 HOPE (1800 33 4673) https://butterfly.org.au

• Kids helpline: Call 1800 55 1800

• Eating disorders Victoria: 1300 550 236 https://www.eatingdisorders.org.au

• National Eating Disorders Collaboration: https://nedc.com.au

• Eating Disorders Queensland: https://eatingdisordersqueensland.org.au

• General Mental Health Support Services (Helplines/Hotlines): https://www.mentalhealthhelp.com.au/service-directory/helplines/

It's been a hot minute since we caught up! I thought I'd take the opportunity to give a little update on my own life, my work, my study and my general life goals. In this solocast, I spontaneously answer your frequently asked questions related to my personal life and eating disorder/mental health recovery. 

In this episode:

• Uni/study and work update
• Dealing with compassion in recovery 
• Veganism and recovery
• Not being "the sickest"
• Grieving your sick body
• Fighting the urge to lose weight and succumb to the diet mentality
• Doing what’s healthy for you!
• Exploring sexuality
• & SO MUCH MORE

Support Services:

Lifeline Australia: Call 13 11 14

Beyond Blue Support Service: Call 1300 22 4636

The butterfly foundation: Call 1800 HOPE (1800 33 4673)

https://butterfly.org.au Kids helpline: Call 1800 55 1800

Eating disorders Victoria: 1300 550 236 https://www.eatingdisorders.org.au

National Eating Disorders Collaboration: https://nedc.com.au

Eating Disorders Queensland: https://eatingdisordersqueensland.org.au

General Mental Health Support Services (Helplines/Hotlines):

 https://www.mentalhealthhelp.com.au/service-directory/helplines/

Varsha Yajman is a human you're going to feel so privileged to be sharing the planet with. Varsha's a mental health and climate justice advocate with a ceaseless degree of passion to facilitate enduring awareness, equity, equality and ethicality for all. Tune in to hear Varsha personally recall her lived experience with mental health, how being a person of colour can add complexity to the experience that is suffering from a mental illness, stigma and so much more. 

In this episode:

• How being a person of colour adds another layer of complexity to the experience that is suffering from mental illness
• The role of culture played in mental health
• Family dynamics and generational differences that impact the support you receive
• How stigma shows up within the realms of mental illness and eating disorders
• Barriers that prevent you accessing support for your mental and physical wellbeing
• Normalising diets and weight loss and how this influences the prevalence of eating disorders
• Encouraging difficult conversations
• Invalidating your own struggles
• Disconnecting self worth from academics and productivity
• Practical tips for being more compassionate toward yourself

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Connect with Varsha!

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/varsha.yajman/?hl=en

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/varshayajman

Not to be Controversial Podcast:

https://www.instagram.com/n2bcpod/?hl=en

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Support Services:

Lifeline Australia: Call 13 11 14

Beyond Blue Support Service: Call 1300 22 4636

The butterfly foundation: Call 1800 HOPE (1800 33 4673)

https://butterfly.org.au Kids helpline: Call 1800 55 1800

Eating disorders Victoria: 1300 550 236 https://www.eatingdisorders.org.au

National Eating Disorders Collaboration: https://nedc.com.au

Eating Disorders Queensland: https://eatingdisordersqueensland.org.au

General Mental Health Support Services (Helplines/Hotlines):

https://www.mentalhealthhelp.com.au/service-directory/helplines/

So I went to residential treatment for my eating disorder. In this podcast, I answer some of the most frequently asked questions related to my treatment experience! 

Plug in and prepare to be IMPOWERED // 

 // Support Services: Lifeline Australia: Call 13 11 14

Beyond Blue Support Service: Call 1300 22 4636

The butterfly foundation: Call 1800 HOPE (1800 33 4673) https://butterfly.org.au

Kids helpline: Call 1800 55 1800 

Eating disorders Victoria: 1300 550 236 https://www.eatingdisorders.org.au 

National Eating Disorders Collaboration: https://nedc.com.au 

Eating Disorders Queensland: https://eatingdisordersqueensland.org.au 

General Mental Health Support Services (Helplines/Hotlines): https://www.mentalhealthhelp.com.au/service-directory/helplines/ -

Welcome to IMPOWERED season 2! I'm so excited to be bringing you a brand new season centred around empowering people with empowering stories doing empowering things. 

In this trailer:

- An update on where I've been

- My intention for 2022 

- What IMPOWERED season 2 has in store for all of us!

 Plug in and prepare to be IMPOWERED

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Support Services:

• Lifeline Australia: Call 13 11 14
• Beyond Blue Support Service: Call 1300 22 4636
• The butterfly foundation: Call 1800 HOPE (1800 33 4673)
• https://butterfly.org.au Kids helpline: Call 1800 55 1800
• Eating disorders Victoria: 1300 550 236 https://www.eatingdisorders.org.au
• National Eating Disorders Collaboration: https://nedc.com.au
• Eating Disorders Queensland: https://eatingdisordersqueensland.org.au

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 General Mental Health Support Services (Helplines/Hotlines):

 https://www.mentalhealthhelp.com.au/service-directory/helplines/

An IMPOWERED Christmas Special! In this episode, I delve into some coping strategies to, not just survive the holiday season, but ENJOY the occasion when you're recovering from an eating disorder. 

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Plug in and prepare to be IMPOWERED

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Connect with me!

Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/impowered_pod/?hl=en

Impowering Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/im_powering/

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Support Services:

Eating Disorder Support Services:

Lifeline Australia: Call 13 11 14 Beyond Blue Support Service: Call 1300 22 4636 The butterfly foundation: Call 1800 HOPE (1800 33 4673), https://butterfly.org.au Kids helpline: Call 1800 55 1800 Eating disorders victoria: 1300 550 236,  https://www.eatingdisorders.org.au National Eating Disorders Collaboration: https://nedc.com.au/eating-disorders/eating-disorders-explained/the-facts/eating-disorders-in-australia/ Eating Disorders Queensland: https://eatingdisordersqueensland.org.au

General Mental Health Support Services (Helplines/Hotlines):

https://www.mentalhealthhelp.com.au/service-directory/helplines/

In this episode, I interview Ashlee Thomas, an eating disorder survivor and fierce recovery advocate. Together with her Mum, Ash started a mentoring and eating disorder advocacy business, The Secret Burden. TSB starts conversations, challenges stigma and creates change in the world of disordered eating and mental health. Ash’s story is a mighty empowering one, which she delves into in this podcast.

In this episode:

- The dangers of diet culture, the thin ideal, beauty standards and social media

- Eating disorder treatment and recovery

- Ash’s near death experiences

- Recovery awakenings

- Advocacy, purpose and mentoring

- And so much more!

Plug in and prepared to be IMPOWERED.

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Ashlee's Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/Ashlee.thomas

The Secret Burden:

https://the-secret-burden-pty-ltd.square.site

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Support Services:

Lifeline Australia: Call 13 11 14

Beyond Blue Support Service: Call 1300 22 4636

The butterfly foundation: Call 1800 HOPE (1800 33 4673), https://butterfly.org.au

Kids helpline: Call 1800 55 1800

Eating disorders victoria: 1300 550 236,  https://www.eatingdisorders.org.au

National Eating Disorders Collaboration: https://nedc.com.au/eating-disorders/eating-disorders-explained/the-facts/eating-disorders-in-australia/

Eating Disorders Queensland: https://eatingdisordersqueensland.org.au

In this weeks episode, I answer some frequently asked questions with regard to eating disorder recovery. I explore how to cope with body changes, triggers, comparison, diet-culture messaging, and so much more! 

Plug in and prepared to be IMPOWERED.

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Support Services:

Lifeline Australia: Call 13 11 14

Beyond Blue Support Service: Call 1300 22 4636

The butterfly foundation: Call 1800 HOPE (1800 33 4673), https://butterfly.org.au

Kids helpline: Call 1800 55 1800

Eating disorders victoria: 1300 550 236,  https://www.eatingdisorders.org.au

National Eating Disorders Collaboration: https://nedc.com.au/eating-disorders/eating-disorders-explained/the-facts/eating-disorders-in-australia/

Eating Disorders Queensland: https://eatingdisordersqueensland.org.au

In this weeks candid, unfiltered solocast, I get real about all things "taboo". I encouraged you to ask me what you would ask an individual with an eating disorder if no question or subject was off limits. I promised to both keep your questions anonymous and approach them without a sceric of judgment. Here are my answers!

Be prepared to get REAL. I discuss everything from stereotypes, to bowel movements, sex drive, periods, embarrassing experiences and common misconceptions, all in an attempt to dismantle shame and empower conversation. 

Plug in and prepared to be IMPOWERED. 

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Support Services:

Lifeline Australia: Call 13 11 14

Beyond Blue Support Service: Call 1300 22 4636

The butterfly foundation: Call 1800 HOPE (1800 33 4673), https://butterfly.org.au 

Kids helpline: Call 1800 55 1800 

Eating disorders victoria: 1300 550 236,  https://www.eatingdisorders.org.au 

National Eating Disorders Collaboration: https://nedc.com.au/eating-disorders/eating-disorders-explained/the-facts/eating-disorders-in-australia/ 

Eating Disorders Queensland: https://eatingdisordersqueensland.org.au

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Dr Jennifer Gaudiani: https://www.gaudianiclinic.com