Sarah Rzemieniak, Eating Disorder Recovery Coach

Halfway into Eating Disorders Awareness Week in Canada and I love seeing all of the different messages being created and shared Its wonderful seeing that perhaps there is more awareness of eating disorders and the deep suffering they cause. However, there are still so many myths that remain, and often that come along with increased awareness as well. I love these Myths Vs. Truths that Vancouver Island Voices for Eating Disorders @vanislevoicesforeds created. ... Heres to a year of more and more awareness, compassion, understanding, love and support for one another See more

For anyone looking or who knows of someone looking for meal support for their recovery and where other options may not be financially feasible, I wanted to post about Heal at Homes virtual group meal support option. They have found a way to offer group meal support via video for a much lower cost than other meal support services that I am aware of. You can explore their website and reach out to Sophie, the founder, for more information! https://www.healathome.co/virtual-meal-support/

During the holidays especially, self-compassion can be so needed. So grateful to get to collaborate with Sophie and her amazing team at @healathome, and to get to talk about self-compassion and to give some simple exercises that can be used in our everyday lives. Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season filled with as much love, joy, self-care and self-compassion as possible... Xoxo Sarah Webinar: Transforming Self-Criticism with Self-Compassion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-icYExUd0I #selfcompassion #selfcare #selfkindness #commonhumanity #mindfulness #kristinneff #eatingdisorderrecovery #edrecovery #bodyimagehealing #haes #edrecoverycoach #onlinesupport #mealsupportcoach #recoveryispossible See more

A healthy relationship with food starts at a young age, but it is so often not intuitive how to help young ones to develop this! Im so excited that two amazing dietitian colleagues have started this private practice together focusing on helping families and caregivers to create supportive feeding environments. Theyre also running a workshop on August 10th! So glad practitioners like this are in the world

Im so grateful to have gotten to speak with Tabitha Farrar Eating Disorder Recovery Coach on her amazing podcast that has reached and helped so many people. I loved speaking with Tabitha. Shes so full of passion and understanding when it comes to eating disorders, and I had a wonderful time speaking with her about my journey, what helped each of us recover, how I got into recovery coaching, spirituality on the recovery journey (and what it means to each of us, whether we call it by that name or not), and more. You can listen to this episode, and all of her other amazing episodes, here: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-puh3x-a2cd64

Events in Victoria, BC for this years Eating Disorder Awareness Week, February 1-7

A wonderful event in Victoria, BC for Eating Disorder Awareness Week Feb. 1-7

The holidays are not always festive and dont always feel jolly. Often, theyre filled with anxiety, sadness, loneliness, wistfulness, yearning, grief, and so many other feelings that feel painful, but in addition to that, bring extra suffering because we feel bad for feeling this way when we feel like everyone around us is happy, or that we should be happy. Not only do painful feelings and difficult things we are going through not go away because its the holidays, b...ut often they feel even harder, for so many reasons. As hard as this can be, do your best to have compassion for yourself and for how hard the holidays can be, and also, know that you are not alone (despite what social media and smiling faces in crowds may make us believe). What you are going through is so valid. I hope this season is a time of getting through, of surviving, and of finding any compassion, gentleness, and comfort for yourself that youre able to.

For anyone with gifts still to buy (definitely me), I love this list of body positive gift ideas from eating disorder dietitian Erica Leon https://ericaleon.com//22-body-positive-gift-ideas-the-ho/

I had such a wonderful time speaking with Chris Sandel (of 7 Health) on Real Health Radio. His podcast is so full of insight and empowering information on diet recovery, eating disorders, body image, nutrition and so much more, all presented in such a warm, empowering way. I couldnt recommend it more. We talk about my journey and what I found helpful during my recovery, recovery coaching, favourite books that I recommend to clients and more (Trigger Warning: discussion of ...eating disorder beliefs). I hope you find it helpful! http://www.seven-health.com//137-interview-with-sarah-rze/

Im so grateful to be featured in this lovely ebook edited by Jennifer Rollin and featuring so many amazing individuals. Eating disorders and depression are so commonly dealt with together, and can feel overwhelming.... I hope the practical tips and compassionate guidance in this ebook will be helpful for many

With Thanksgiving just around the corner in the US and Christmas just a month away for all of us, I wanted to write about some tips and tools for managing the holiday season while in eating disorder recovery. Despite their joy and beautiful traditions, the holidays can be a stressful time for everyone. And they can be an especially stressful time if you are in the process of eating disorder recovery. Whether you are in recovery yourself, or whether you are close to someon...e who is, I hope that this guide is helpful for you this holiday season https://sarahrzemieniak.com/holidays-eating-disorder-recov/

New post exploring the underlying issues beneath eating disorders, written for sufferers as well as those wanting to understand more. I hope youre all having a wonderful November so far! https://sarahrzemieniak.com/real-issues-eating-disorders/

Wonderful practical tips from dietitian Emily Fonnesbeck, RD. Halloween can be a challenging time for parents, with concern for physical health on one side and wanting to help your children develop a healthy relationship with food, and also just wanting them to be able to have fun and be kids. Emily has some wonderful tips

So grateful to have gotten to be on @always_a_being Eating Disorder Recovery Speakers podcast! Vulnerable but empowering and hopefully helpful to have told my eating disorder and recovery story, and to have gotten to have a wonderful conversation with @kris_lee_bruno about life, recovery, spirituality, and more. Extremely grateful for this opportunity to spread hope that full recovery is possible, and grateful for all of Kristens, and her speakers, work in get...ting these messages of hope out in the world Link in bio. #recoveredispossible #eatingdisorderrecovery #alwaysabeing #edrspodcast #recovery #recoverycoach See more

Happy Thanksgiving! New post exploring the confusing and frustrating side of eating disorder recovery, both for loved ones as well as sufferers - the ambivalence and resistance to it. I hope you all have wonderful long weekends!... https://sarahrzemieniak.com/when-eating-disorder-recovery-/

Wonderful resource for navigating this important but tricky topic and the even trickier conversations.

Extremely grateful to have been interviewed by therapist Jennifer Rollin about recovery coaching for eating disorders! Its new for the field, and any added information on it is so helpful. So grateful to her for asking me to share this

A really good read for parents, teachers, or anyone involved in health and nutrition education for children. With so much conflicting information about health, diet and weight out there, it can be hard to know what to say or recommend to children. In my previous work as a dietitian with my young clients I saw the harm that could be done though. A very well-written article by dietitian Leslie Schilling.

So grateful to be part of The Looking Glass Foundations #SelfCareSunday today. Sometimes, for me, self care looks like letting things go and resting instead, and sometimes it looks like committing to a challenging but manageable goal that will move me forward in a good direction. What is one challenging but manageable goal you can commit to starting now?... Looking Glass Foundation for Eating Disorders

Im so grateful to have gotten to write for The Looking Glass Foundation for Eating Disorders blog. The residential treatment centre, volunteer programs, scholarship program, and outreach services they run are truly invaluable services for eating disorder treatment in BC. Im so grateful for having my voice included in their beautiful blog! Looking Glass Foundation for Eating Disorders

Reflections on patience. this blogging has been a wonderful way for me to slow down and reflect, on things that helped me in the past that I hope can help others, and on things that I can definitely benefit from having more of now. https://sarahrzemieniak.com/patience-during-recovery/

I received this from an eating disorder list Im on, and wanted to share. As simple as they seem, Ive found that mantras that resonate with me or clients can be surprisingly powerful for grounding and calming down anxious, runaway thoughts and feelings. Its neat seeing specific ones that others recommend and use.

New postReflections on self-compassion and its power in helping us to accept ourselves while we also try to work on ourselves.. https://sarahrzemieniak.com/self-compassion-eating-disorde/

New blog post Body image can be such a difficult thing to heal for anyone in our culture, let alone for someone recovering from an eating disorder, where the body and ones perception of it are so laden with meaning. . There are many books and workbooks written about body image (the Gurze-Salucore website has a comprehensive list), but here I share what helped me the most, as it was often others who had recovered, and then shared what helped them, that helped me the most. ... . I hope this post helps who it can as well . https://sarahrzemieniak.com/six-practices-body-image/ See more

Beautiful TEDx talk. Positive body image isnt believing your body looks good. Its knowing your body is good, regardless of how it looks. Objectifying ourselves in so many different ways can feel so normal..the way Dr. Lindsay Kite shines light on this is really beautiful. ... https://youtu.be/uDowwh0EU4w

Such a beautiful way of putting it........I know I struggle with this concept at lot, having a tendency to be all-or-nothing with things. But I believe this is so true, and so powerful to remember... especially during something as challenging and long as eating disorder recovery

New post All about the importance of not making enemies with the part of ourselves we want to change. Easier said than done sometimes.. https://sarahrzemieniak.com/not-making-eating-disorder-ene/