(CW - please take care reading this piece. It touches on depression, suicidality and the search for hope.) These past couple months, as...

Day in, day out… I put aside the grief I cannot carry; shelve the moral distress tearing me in two… I do what I can (what limited I can)...

(Originally posted on Vancouver Island Voices for Eating Disorders blog.) When individuals with eating disorders have cycled through...

In the following article Minister Dix discusses recent emergency room closures at rural hospitals and emergency centres. Within his...

What I have learned (unlearned, or may still be learning) from the month of June... “We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor,...

This blog post was originally written for (and published on) the Nurses and Nurse Practitioners of B.C. (NNPBC) website. It stemmed from...

It is important to reflect on where different eating disorder therapies and programs perpetuate the struggle for individuals to practice...

What is "recovery?" How can one be "recovery" oriented? How do we define this process? Who gets to define this process? Is there more...

Today I look to the resilience and persistence of camas blooms for inspiration. I learn from the years they take to bloom, that change...

This feels very personal to write, but here goes... There are some days that slowing down enough to attend appointments leaves me feeling...

An important reflection point for professionals working in the eating disorder field... How well does your online appearance of...

I shared these brief thoughts through Vancouver Island Voices for Eating Disorders (VIVED) social media, but there is so much in this...

I've written before about reclaiming authorship and the power of language, largely through advocating for collaborative treatment in my...

I have been thinking a lot lately about lived/living experience and how we honour this without gatekeeping that form of wisdom, as well...

"One cannot treat [those struggling with an eating disorder] from the "outside," meaning treating the patient/client in a one-person -...

When working with patients, clients, or individuals seeking support, we must remember that trust is not something any professional is...

February 1-7 is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (EDAW) in Canada. This year's campaign, "Everyone has a role to play," aims to...

This is an older blog post I wrote that I have gone back through and updated/adjusted as my understanding and view of things has changed....

An eating disorder is an eating disorder is an eating disorder... That is pretty much the summary of what I have to say here, but let's...

When it comes to eating disorder (and other mental health) treatment settings and a patient's "suitability" (as deemed by professionals),...