Is Treading on Eggshells is for you?

• Do you care about someone who has an eating disorder?

• Are you afraid of what to say and what not to say?

• Feeling frustrated, alone, isolated?

• Wishing you could share your concerns with people who understand?

Treading on Eggshells is a course for anyone who is caring for someone with an eating disorder. You may be a parent, friend, brother or sister, boyfriend, girlfriend or partner. Treading on Eggshells will help you to cope better and show you ways in which you can help both yourself and the person you care for.

This is a 6 week course, led by two Eating Disorders Practitioners and is held in our Sheffield office on a Wednesday evening at 6-8pm. Together we will focus on the causes and triggers of eating disorders, techniques for offering support, communication tips, and more. There is also an opportunity to talk to other friends and family and share experiences.

The Maudsley Method recognises that only the person with the eating disorder can achieve recovery, but that they can’t do it alone; also – whilst professional treatment can be enormously helpful – most people with eating disorders spend much more time with their families and friends (their carers) than with professionals.  Because of these facts, both professionals and carers need to have similar skills; that is, be able to support a person with an eating disorder to develop their own motivation to achieve recovery.  It is these motivational skills that the Treading on Eggshells course teaches, whilst also helping carers to build resilience and look after themselves.  To purchase from Amazon click here

This service is provided free of charge. To access this service you need to be registered with a GP in South Yorkshire and the person whom you are supporting with an eating disorder does not need to be currently accessing SYEDA’s services.