Eating Disorders & Other Shadowy Companions: Conversation cards to bridge the isolation

Living with an eating disorder can be a lonely, isolating experience. This beautiful, highly-visual tool aims to support young people and adults to bridge the isolation by sharing their experience with family, friends, teachers, counsellors, and other health professionals.

• 40 hand-drawn cards for creating conversations that challenge the silence and shame surrounding eating disorders
• a comprehensive booklet of suggestions for using the cards with individuals and groups.

Guided by three quirky characters - Reggie the Recovery Rhino, Ed the Eating Disorder Monster, and Bird - this set of 40 cards encourages young people and adults to bridge the shame and isolation of living with an eating disorder by sharing their experience with the people around them.

Each card features a gentle question, inviting people to reflect on what it feels like to live with an eating disorder. While this card set deeply honours the naming and acknowledging of pain, it also encourages people to cultivate the territory of hope by reflecting on, and talking about, what recovery may look and feel like for them.

While the cards have been designed to be used primarily with people experiencing an eating disorder - any eating disorder - they can also be used to have conversations about body image, ideals of beauty, the impact of the media on our sense of identity, dieting and our relationship to food. They can also be used to talk about other ‘shadowy companions’ like anxiety or depression.

Eating Disorders & Other Shadowy Companions includes a comprehensive booklet of suggested activities and tips for creating safe and inclusive conversations in a range of settings; one-on-one sessions with counsellors, psychologists or other health professionals, with families around the kitchen table, in secondary and tertiary settings, within family and community services, workplaces and groups.

40 laminated, spot colour cards, 160 x 140mm and 60 page booklet.

Digital Resources

Each card pack comes with free access to an online toolbox of extras. The Digital Toolbox includes:

• a digital version of the booklet.
• access to a digital set of the cards that you can download and use anywhere, anytime.
• ideas banks, blogs, card hack videos, interviews and other support material.

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Table of Contents

• 40 cards
• activities booklet