“Your heartache is someone else’s hope. If you make it through, somebody else is going to make it through. Tell your story.”
— Kim McManus
grow with me
Tired of constantly thinking about food or your body?
I get it! Unravelling the thoughts and beliefs that made up my eating disorder has been one of my life’s greatest projects. Tough as heck but totally worth it. I have put in the hard yards and learned from the best of the best.
My work in body acceptance and eating disorder recovery is dynamic and ever-evolving. But this remains constant: I am passionate about mental health awareness.
Aside from volunteering with Youthline to support youth mental health, I share my experiences and resources via my podcast Bod Almighty. Watch this space because I have some bigger projects in the pipeline!
My emails are always open to anyone who needs to chat, and I’m very open about my experiences to help and encourage others.
I’ve made this page to share my personal journey and to share body acceptance resources I have found personally helpful.
Follow me over on instagram where I regularly share stories, resources and inspo.
my body story
For close to two decades, I didn’t think it was possible to live without an eating disorder. I was scared to be without it. Throughout my twenties and thirties an eating disorder occupied my head and when it wasn’t driving me to harm myself in the pursuit of thinness it was filling me with vicious self-doubt. It was all happening in secret, on the inside.
On the outside I looked regular. On the outside I was in a big corporate job at a young age before transitioning into writing books. I was getting married and having lovely babies. I was travelling the globe. I was living my best life.
If I had a magic wand I’d be casting a spell of body acceptance over the entire planet. Because I know how corrosive it is to believe your body is inadequate, gross or wrong. It impacts everything – work, friendships, family, relationships, mental and physical health.
This is the reason why I talk about body acceptance, mental health and eating disorder recovery on Instagram and why my friend Michelle Sokolich and I started Bod Almighty.
I don’t want anyone to have to suffer for two decades, like I did, before they realise there is another option. I want them to know that the following is possible:
A calm relationship with food.
Enjoying the company of other women and not talking about bodies or diets at all.
Eating some of the biscuits but not all of the biscuits all at once.
Exercising because you genuinely enjoy it.
Feeling happy in swimwear.
Going to bed without planning what you will or won’t eat the next day.
Touching your stomach and enjoying its softness and stretch marks.
Breaking a chair and knowing it’s the chair’s fault and not yours.
Throwing out too-small clothes without shame or guilt.
Wearing colours other than black.
Never weighing yourself again.
Knowing your worth doesn’t have anything to do with your clothing size.
No longer equating certain beauty standards (size, hair, skin etc) with superior intellect, willpower, success or desirability.
A more compassionate relationship with your body.
Bod Almighty!
Bod Almighty is the podcast my friend Michelle and I needed when we were finding our way out of self-loathing and food obsession. Positive, practical, thirty minutes or less episodes with experts who really know their stuff.
We feature nutritionists, psychotherapists, eating disorder recovery coaches, nurses, doctors, thought leaders, personal trainers and even gynaecological cancer awareness advocates! You name it, we get amongst it.
Every episode is a clear “How to” so you can get the tools and resources you need to feel more at ease and confident in your skin. Less waffle, more action. And lots of lols along the way.
