First steps
For Parents, Partners and Family Members
CALMLY CONNECTING FOR CHANGE:
Supporting your loved one (and yourself) with Confidence and Compassion
Empowering you with the tools and strategies you need, through bespoke, tailored 1:1 sessions with Deirdre
Your Recovery Compass
Helping you to navigate your loved one’s Eating Disorder Recovery journey
Providing you with the tools, skills and understanding to support your loved one’s recovery, through a six week live group programme
This 1:1 session with Zuzanna is intended to assist with assessment, diagnosis, and treatment recommendations. The session will (a) involve a history and interview(s), combined with the use of a number of assessment tools which will help to both formulate diagnosis and offer recommendations for treatment, as well as a risk assessment and (b) help to answer some of the following questions:
- Is this disordered eating or an eating disorder?
- Which eating disorder is it?
- How severe is the presentation?
This assessment will enable the development of a strategic treatment plan, using proven evidence-based therapies, co-ordinated with other treatment providers as appropriate (for example, psychiatrist, GP, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and/or dietitian). Families are guided and supported by a team of professionals, working alongside them and their loved one.
‘From Fear to Focus’ webinar
You will get:
• Recovery Basics: An understanding of eating disorders and the recovery process
• Basics for Parenting after Diagnosis: how to support your loved one and, equally as important, what NOT to do. Sometimes the things we have always done to support our loved ones no longer work. We will help you to understand why – and what to do instead
• A Guide towards the next steps in the recovery process and help you to find the right supports
Available on demand or online (keep an eye here on our website or on social media for upcoming dates).
€40 per person/€50 per couple (in-person). €50 on-demand (recording).
The secrets to nurturing a positive food and body image in your children
and how to navigate if they…
say ‘I’m too fat’, ask for ‘healthier’ foods, compare their body size to their friends?
Let`s Join Deirdre and Zuzanna webinar!
Understanding Body Image
Struggles with body image and/or a distorted view of body image often form part of an Eating Disorder (but not for everyone). Sometimes, when they start to gain weight as part of the recovery process (where weight gain is required), the negative feelings about their body can increase. As we often say, ‘Getting better makes them feel worse’.
For our loved one, the recovery process involves work on improving a person's body image - or making it matter less to them.
Our 2 hour webinar on ‘Understanding Body Image Issues’ will help you to understand:
- What Body Image is – and isn’t
- Body Image and Anxiety and the links between them
- What to do and What to say
- As importantly what NOT to do and NOT to say
- Provide you with resources and supports
Available on demand or online (keep an eye here on our website or on social media for upcoming dates). €40 per person/€50 per couple (in-person). €40 on-demand (recording
How it has helped:
‘It was excellent’
‘It was really informative. There was so much material…it was very useful’
‘It’s great to have this support and the acknowledgement of how tough it is’.
Carer Online Support Group (Monthly live confidential space for parents, partners, family members and friends).
Each month, parents and family members support each other as well as learn new skills. They share their own experiences of the recovery process, what has worked and what they have learned along the way. They get the opportunity to avail of our expertise too!
