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H shares her experience and reasons for recovery, offering a message of hope 10 years later.

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Harriet shares her experience of anorexia nervosa and how her experiences have shaped her into the woman she is today.

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Emma shares her experience of anorexia nervosa and how far she's come in her recovery

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Our supporter Hannah discusses finding peace with anorexia, recovery and how the Beat helpline helped her and her family

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Our supporter Charlotte shares her experience of having anorexia at a boarding school and shares her message of hope

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Our supporter Charlotte reflects on her recovery story, and shares her message of hope.

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Ayisha shares her reflections on how her eating disorder affects her relationship to her Muslim faith, family, and marriage.

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Our supporter Mayuri shares some of her top tips for being kinder to yourself during your eating disorder recovery journey.

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I first learned what a calorie was before I started nursery school. Not a unit of energy, not something we need to keep us alive, but something to evade, something dangerous that hid in food and was to be avoided at all costs

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To this day, my relationship with food is a complex one, but I am very much of the belief that next year will be better, and the year after that will be even better.

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The first time my mum worried I might have an eating disorder, I was 12. I was a competitive athlete, and a knee injury prevented me from training. I was terrified of gaining weight – I’d been afraid of being ‘fat’ throughout my childhood.

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When lockdown came into force – what seems like a whole lifetime ago – I struggled. Like many people who experience eating problems, I felt so threatened by the changes in routine, the limited availability of certain foods, the massive uncertainty of it all

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