Check out our brand-new teen blogging guide with tips on how to get started, stats on eating disorders, how to share your story & setting healthy boundaries on the internet.
The following articles have generously been written for and donated to NEDA by their authors. Feel free to post them on your websites & blogs or publish them in community newsletters and newpapers. Please note: They must be published for educational purposes only, you must not change any wording, and it must be published in it's entirety. Please cite the National Eating Disorders Association and our website.
Finding Me: Looking Past the Surface to Discover My Transgender Identity
by Ryan Sallans
Can You Tell Anything at all by a Person's Weight?
by Deb Burgard PhD
It'll Be Better When I'm Thin...
by Geneen Roth, author of Women, Food and God
Healthy Body Image Tips for Pregnant Women and New Mothers
by Claire Mysko, co-author of Does This Pregnancy Make Me Look Fat? The Essential Guide to Loving Your body Before and After Baby
5 Ways to Help Girls Resist the Pressure to be Perfect
by Claire Mysko, author of You're Amazing! A No-Pressure Guide to Being Your Best Self
From ED's Half-life to Your Full Life
by Aimee Liu, author of Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders
Coaches Guide to Eating Disorders
By Roberta Trattner Sherman, PhD, FAED, eating disorder treatment specialist and co-author of Helping Athletes With Eating Disorders
Eating Disorders Affect Us All
By Stephanie Covington Armstrong, author of Not All Black Girls Know How To Eat
Eating Disorders and Body Image: What do gender and sexuality have to do with it?
By Diane Israel, Executive Producer of Beauty Mark
Eating Disorders in Jewish Communities
By Tanya Berg, MS, RN, CDN, Devorah Levinson and Elisheva Wollner, LCSW, eating disorder treatment specialists.
More articles coming soon! Wondering if we can post an article on a specific topic? Email us at connect@myneda.org.
For Dads by Dads: Tips for supporting a child with an eating disorder and practicing self-care
March 1st, 5:00-6:30pm EST (2:00-3:30pm PST)
If you are the father of a child with an eating disorder, we invite you to join NEDA Navigators Mike Pollan and Paul Cordero for this free online webinar for fathers by fathers. They will share what they have learned from their own experience of caring for a child with an eating disorder about the role fathers can play in the recovery process. Click here for more information and to reserve your spot!
Challenging the BMI: Body Mass Index or Body Myth Insanity?
February 29th, 2012, 1:00-2:30 pm, EST
Registration fee: $29.95
In this webinar, hosted by Partner Organization, Hardy Girls Healthy Women, Dr. Margo Maine, clinical psychologist, will challenge our nearly religious reliance on the BMI in attempts to prevent or treat eating disorders. Reviewing the lack of scientific basis for the BMI, Dr. Maine will illustrate how our culture's obsession with thinness and dieting has contributed to the exponential and global increase of eating disorders. Click here for more information and to register.
Eating Disorders in Adolescents: Strategies for the Primary Care Provider
This webinar, hosted by TeenScreen, and presented by Timothy Walsh, M.D. has been archived and is available through March.
Complex and Multi-factorial, eating disorders can be challenging to detect and manage. But, primary care providers are in a unique position to identify them in their earliest stages, when treatment can be most effective. Listen to or share this link with primary care providers to help raise awareness.
Volunteer Speaker Training: Key messages and sharing stories responsibly
Recorded Webinar
Thinking about becoming a volunteer speaker at a NEDAwareness Week event? Already signed-up to be a speaker but want some tips on how to do it? Listen to this free webinar with NEDA Ambassador, author and singer/songwriter Jenni Schaefer and NEDA Navigators and Loss Support Network Clinical Advisor Ilene Fishman, LCSW to learn about key messaging, sharing your story responsibly, how to handle difficult questions and tips for preparation and delivery. Click here to listen to the webinar archive.
NEW TWITTER CAMPAIGN: Use these tweets each day so we can get NEDAwareness trending!
Tweet Chats: Join in on the conversation
National Organization for Women (NOW) Wednesday, Feb. 29th, 4pm - 5pm Eastern Time #LoveYourBody
ABC Tweet Chat about eating disorders, with chief health and medical correspondent, Dr. Richard Besser, Tuesday, Feb. 28th, 1-2pm Eastern Time. #ABCDrBchat
Pre-Written Facebook Posts: Use these or modify them to create your own
Promote Participation by Posting About NEDAwaereness Week on Facebook
Social Media: Follow NEDA online
YouTube: Watch and share a presentation by Corazon Tierra called No te hagas pequena, about eating disorders in the latino community. (Recording in English)
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