Eating Issues & Finding Help
Why the term ‘eating difficulties?’
EDEN uses the term eating difficulties to refer to a wide range of women’s and men’s body and eating experiences and practices. This includes the clinically defined eating disorders anorexia and bulimia as well as issues such as eating past fullness, excessive exercising, restricting, purging, body dissatisfaction and yo-yo dieting.
EDEN believes it is useful to view all eating and body image issues as a reflection of the anxiety which food and body size hold for many people in societies where being thin is idealised and being fat is abhorred. The severity or extent of these problems can be influenced by gendered expectations, family experiences, a background of abuse, major life stressors, unrealistic pressures to achieve, developmental or life-stage challenges (e.g., puberty, pregnancy, menopause) and disruption to normal eating patterns.
If you or someone you care about is struggling with any kind of eating or body image difficulty and you don’t know what to do you are welcome to contact us.
Services and Resources we provide
- Individual Counselling Services
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- Telephone support
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