NIED empowers and supports Canadian caregivers of those with eating disorders, through education, advocacy, awareness, and lived-experience connection.
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.
If summer sends your inner critic into overdrive, it might be time for a social media clean-up. Your feed should make you laugh, think, or smile — not convince you that your body is a renovation project.
I just got back from the biennial Eating Disorders Association of Canada EDAC 2026 conference in Halifax, and I'm still buzzing from all the inspiring talks and conversations. The theme this year was Harbouring Collaboration, and across two days of presentations, the words “collaboration” and “personalization” came up repeatedly as core missing ingredients in our country's eating disorder (ED) care practices. In an amazing presentation on longstanding EDs, Howard Steiger, Li
