by Henry Becky | Sep 8, 2019 | Advocacy, Boundaries, Caregiving, Distress - Yours, Mine and Ours, Eating Disorders Resources, Education, HUG Kits, Oxygen Mask, Self Care, Support, Tools for Caregivers, Treatment
Parents and other family caregivers of those with eating disorders often want to give up and/or run away. Anxiety and fear are normal reactions to seeing your child/family member disappear before your eyes. The demands on a family caregiver are so profound I often... 
by Henry Becky | Aug 25, 2019 | Advocacy, Caregiving, Eating Disorders Resources, Education, Oxygen Mask, Support, Treatment
August 23, 2019 Newsletter – Eating Disorders Caregivers – Support is Game Changing Yesterday I saw my friend Kitty Westin speak at the grand opening of another Anna Westin House location, the first in the City of Minneapolis so this is very... 
by Henry Becky | Jul 16, 2019 | Advocacy, Caregiving, Communication, Eating Disorders Resources, Education, HUG Kits, Oxygen Mask, Self Care, Shame, Support, Tools for Caregivers
In the, “you can’t make this stuff up” category or as my friend and fellow author, Mary Treacy O’Keefe would call it, “a meant to be moment” I had an encounter at the Birmingham airport on the way home from presenting with Carlus Houston at the University of AL Eating... 
by Henry Becky | Jun 23, 2019 | Advocacy, Boundaries, Caregiving, Communication, Distress - Yours, Mine and Ours, Eating Disorders Resources, Education, Self Care, Shame, Support, Tools for Caregivers
Parenting kids who have a propensity to feel worthless and unlovable is not easy to say the least. Each week in the online group support that I facilitate we have a topic that we use to illuminate the challenges family caregivers of those with eating disorders are... 
by wpstylist | Oct 1, 2018 | Advocacy, Eating Disorders Resources, Education, HUG Kits, Uncategorized
In case you missed my email news that went out today, here are the latest updates! So many exciting things happening here at Hope Network I could spend all day filling you in, here I’ll just share 4 of them: (feel free to contact me if you want to hear more) ●... 
by wpstylist | Jan 24, 2018 | Advocacy, Caregiving, Communication, Distress - Yours, Mine and Ours, Eating Disorders Resources, Education, HUG Kits, Self Care, Uncategorized
Most of us were taught LITTLE or NOTHING about eating disorders before becoming parents or health care professionals or both! Even as we’ve fed our little ones and/or told parents of patients how to feed their little ones we most likely had no idea of the complexities...