Hope Through Recovery: Your Guide to Moving Forward when in Recovery from an Eating Disorder

Description

In this practical guide to life in recovery, mental health campaigner and survivor Hope Virgo offers practical and emotional support tools for anyone who has had an eating disorder, whatever the type. The book combines her personal experience with her work with parents, patients, educators and health workers. Consultant Psychiatrist Dr Chi-Chi Obuaya lends his clinical experience and knowledge, giving additional guidance and advice throughout. Learn about Hope's story, the myths about eating disorders, and where you may be in your own recovery. Look at the building blocks for a successful recovery, and the situations you may encounter in daily life that will challenge your recovery. Hope unpicks how to cope and learn from these experiences. Finally, she looks at the possibility of relapse, and how to deal with this if it happens to you. Read from beginning to end or dip in and out when you need extra support and help. This is the book Hope wished she'd had when she was fresh out of hospital and entering back into the 'real world'.

Hope is an award-winning mental health campaigner and author. She suffered with anorexia for over four years, before being admitted to a mental health hospital in 2007. She lived in the hospital for a year, fighting one of the hardest battles of her life. Since being discharged, she has fought to stay well. Hope is now at the stage of ongoing recovery, and uses her experiences of mental health illness to champion the rights of others, inspire them to get well, and help break the stigma of mental illness. She is a recognised media spokesperson, having appeared on platforms includingVictoria Derbyshire,Good Morning Britain, Sky News and BBC News. Consultant PsychiatristDr Chi-Chi Obuaya specialises in the diagnosis and treatment of eating disorders. He works across the NHS and runs a private practice in Harley Street.