Recovery Space

Welcome

Recoveryspace.org is a South African website that promotes recovery from eating disorders. People with eating disorders (or their family and friends) can find out more about anorexia, bulimia and compulsive over-eating, as well as find treatment options, access information and find tips on recovery from eating disorders.

What you'll find here

This website contains general information on eating disorders, and useful links, as well as a section on getting help (where you can search for psychologists, dietitians and other health professionals). A RecoveryToolbox section has also been included, where you can read up on tips and insiders' stories of the recovery process.

South African information

Due to a shortage of information on treatment available in South Africa, this site aims to provide relevant treatment referrals within South Africa.

Latest topic: Getting the year off to a good start

As it's the start of 2010, you may be deciding to make some changes in your life. For many people, getting help for their eating disorder may be an important part of this. If that's the case for you, try the section on "getting help" to find out more about the types of treatment available.

Sticking to New Year's resolutions can be tricky, but there are a few tips out there that can help you to make and keep to a resolution.
Some of these include:

  • Setting realistic goals. For example, don't expect to completely get rid of your eating disorder or to never purge again, as this is a long-term goal which may be impossible to achieve in a year. Instead, deciding to regularly go for treatment would be a more realistic and achievable goal.
  • Allowing yourself to make mistakes. Changing your lifestyle is not about perfection, but about a slow process of change. You are likely to have some slips along the way - but that doesn't have to mean that you completely throw in the towel. Mistakes are an inevitable part of long-term change - so keep on going, even if things don't go they way you hoped.

Take a look at
6 steps to making New Year's resolutions work for some more general ideas.