True Talks #3 was held during Eating Disorder Awareness Week, and offered an ideal opportunity to help break some of the silence around eating disorders. For those who missed the event, here are the tools and ideas we came up with as a group to keep us moving forward and feeling empowered in 2013:
Fill […]
We held our second True Talks event on December 13, as we knew with the holidays approaching, a lot of us could be feeling stress or anxiety, and could benefit from some coping tools. As a group, we put together a Holiday Toolkit to help you feel your emotional best throughout the month of […]
Each week we share eating disorder news and body image stories through @ProjectTrue on Twitter. We realize not all of you are on Twitter, so we’ve rounded up some of the top stories from the last month below.
Blog Posts, Cool Finds and Body Image Crusaders
Lady Gaga Puts Bulimia and Body Image On the Table In A […]
With Halloween around the corner, “scary” themes are all around us. But far more frightening than fictitious goblins, zombies and monsters are the hard truths about eating disorders, ranging from unhealthy body image and distorted perception of self, to life-threatening anorexia and bulimia.
5 scary facts about eating disorders in Canada
1 in 2 healthy weight […]
Recently our courageous president, Angela Rinaldis, was interviewed in a blog called A Year of Making a Difference, in which Angela shares stories of her success as a lawyer and as an entrepreneur with her own health food line, and her audacious goals for Project True.
We’ve shared the first part of the interview below, but […]
This Thanksgiving Monday, October 8th, we’re gathering a group of big-hearted people for a free yoga session in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery, and would love to see you there!
We’re going to unroll our mats in public to peacefully protest for the right to access resources, treatment and hope for anyone in BC […]
We’ve written a few times about our vision to open the Project True Centre for Body Image and Eating Disorder Recovery in Vancouver.
We’re also serious about making it a reality, which is why we’ve entered into the Aviva Community Fund competition. As part of our entry, we’ve created a video (which we’ll be […]
We’re beyond excited to share the official Project True pledge with you, and we’d love to invite you to join us in Gastown this Sunday to take the pledge and (if you want) be a part of our video!
Come take the pledge with us!
Place: The Steam Clock, at the corner of Cambie and […]
Are you a Vancouver-based web designer who wants to give back to your community? If so, we’d love to hear from you! Project True is urgently seeking a web designer who can help us reach our goals and expand into a resource to empower thousands of people who are struggling with eating disorders across […]
Book review by Alexis McDonald
Diary of an Exercise Addict by Peach Friedman
While the most common terms used to diagnose and describe eating disorders are anorexia and bulimia, the spectrum of other forms of disordered eating are as varied and unique as the people who struggle with their effects.
In her memoir Diary of an Exercise […]