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Body Brave Insights
Visit this page for writing and reflections on eating disorder recovery and more from our community!



Five Things People with Eating Disorders Want Their Primary Care Providers to Know
Body Brave is working with McMaster Family Practice in Hamilton, Ontario, to design a new approach to eating disorder care in primary care. An important part of this work is learning from people who have navigated eating disorder care themselves. In two co-design sessions, 11 Ontario-based Body Brave clients with lived experience of eating disorders shared what had helped, what had made accessing eating disorder care more difficult, and what they wanted considered as the new


“Am I Sick Enough” Recovery Session – Reflection
Lulwama Mulalu (she/her) Every day I am learning more and more about the power of what it means to be able to tell your own story, and...


Pushing My Sexuality Away: A story of Shame, Resilience, and Recovery
By Mel Disclaimer: This blog post includes mention of alcohol use and homophobia. Pride is a term commonly used and associated with the...


Small things and breathtaking experiences
By Lulwama (she/her) “We’re all going to the same place, and we’re all on a path. Sometimes our paths converge. Sometimes they separate,...


A slight change in plans: 2 steps back, 1 giant leap forward…
By Lulwama (she/her) In the last recent weeks I have been thinking about what it means to live more presently in the discomfort of the...


Why I celebrate everyBODY
By Cynthia Boyede A few weeks ago my family took me out to dinner for my birthday. Looking at the menu gave me a lot of anxiety and it...
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