Free & Low Cost Support

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Free & Low Cost Support

Everyone deserves support for their eating concerns, and NEDA wants to connect you with resources that can help in addition to professional help. These free and low cost support options offer ways to connect with others and provide tools to promote recovery.

Please note that these options do not replace professional treatment. We are listing them as additional support options to supplement recovery or maintenance.

Eating Disorders Support Groups

Looking for connection and understanding in recovery? Eating disorder support groups offer a welcoming space to share and feel less alone. While not a replacement for treatment, they’re a free or low-cost way to gain support from others who truly get it.

Project Body Neutrality

Do you have 10 minutes to rethink your relationship with your body? Project Body Neutrality is a free online course designed by scientists at the Lab for Scalable Mental Health and Koko, a mental health nonprofit, to help young people feel better in their bodies. While it was developed and tested with teenagers, anyone who wants to explore body neutrality can try it.

ANAD Recovery Mentors

Would you like to get support from someone who understands what you are going through and feeling? ANAD will pair you up with a Recovery Mentor who has recovered from an eating disorder and will be able to help support you on your own recovery journey. Please note that mentees are accepted twice per year.

Project Heal

Project HEAL is a national nonprofit that is focused on creating equitable access to eating disorder treatment. Through their free programs (Clinical Assessment, Treatment Placement, Insurance Navigation, and Cash Assistance), they help people overcome financial, insurance, and systemic barriers to access the eating disorder healing they need and deserve. In 2022, they helped over 800 people get into eating disorder treatment at every level of care – for free.

MEDA Recovery Community

The MEDA Recovery Community provides resources to support eating disorder recovery, available 24/7 from your phone, tablet, or computer. There are resources to support all levels of recovery with new content added each month. In addition to all the tools, Community Connections forums provide a safe space to connect with other folks who just ‘get it.

Recovery Record

Recovery Record is an eating disorder recovery app that can be downloaded on both iPhone and Android devices. Recovery Record takes industry best practice for eating disorder treatment and delivers it on mobile devices. It replaces pen-and-paper therapy homework with a mobile application, with both a client and clinician version, so logged information can be shared with professionals if desired. For more information, click the link below or search for Recovery Record on your mobile device’s App store.