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Education.
Understanding.
Action.
NIED exists to give hope and support to individuals with an eating disorder and their caregivers.

Immediate Support
If you are experiencing a mental health crisis:
Please call 911, 988,
or 1-866-NEDIC-20
Our friends at the National Eating Disorders Information Centre (NEDIC) run a toll-free, anonymous helpline that you can access if you need somebody to talk to. You can phone in, email, or visit their website.
If you are a caregiver of someone with an eating disorder:
Initial Point of Connection Program
NIED’s Initial Point of Connection is a highly accessible and timely resource for caregivers of individuals with an eating disorder. Speak to someone by phone or text message within 24 hours.
Latest Blog Posts


National Caregiver Day
April 7th is National Caregiver Day. We would like to honour the crucial work that all caregivers do: emotionally and physically supporting their loved ones or patients in daily tasks, recovery, advocacy, personal care, medical care, companionship, and so much more. What you do does not go unnoticed. We appreciate your hard work, and we also recognize that acknowledgement and appreciation only go so far. Words fall short when you aren’t feeling supported, feel burnt out, feel


The Winter Blues of Eating Disorder Recovery
Certain times of year can feel especially difficult, particularly for people with lived experience of eating disorders or disordered eating. Changes in light, routine, stress levels, and emotional demands can quietly intensify struggles around food, body image, control, and coping. If this season feels harder than expected, there is nothing wrong with you. These responses make sense. Why This Time of Year Can Be Challenging for Eating Disorder Recovery Disrupted routines and


My “Why”
I get asked a lot of questions about when I started running, how I started, why I started. The truth is, I don’t remember a time in my life when I didn’t run. I do remember the time when I couldn’t run and when it was taken away from me though. Taken away from me because of my eating disorder. A lot of things in my life were taken away from me because of my eating disorder, and I didn’t realize until years later of being broken from under it how much it had inhabited me from




























































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