Welcome to the blog space of the Looking Glass community, where we post our own and others’ reflections and perspectives on eating disorder issues, journeys of recovery, and other helpful tips and tools.
The legacy began in 2001. Community-based programs for eating disorder recovery were overburdened, hospital admissions meant long wait lists, and families seeking residential care were forced to find it outside of Canada at tremendous expense and personal sacrifice. Several families, who all shared a similarly desperate struggle to find appropriate treatment programs for their daughters, came together in frustration. Looking Glass Residence co-founder Deborah Grimm remembers it well...
When those we love are hurting we hurt right along with them, and the closer we are to them the more we resonate with their pain and suffering. We want to take their pain and hurt away, and one of the ways we often choose to do this is by talking them out of whatever painful emotion they are feeling or experiencing...
Q: Whenever I spend time with my daughter, I feel like everything I do or say might trigger her. How do I build a normal relationship?
A: This is a great question because I know that so many parents can relate to your dilemma.
On Friday, the Looking Glass community gathered together to celebrate our past and share excitement for our future - and what a celebration it was! Some 400 guests joined the Looking Glass Foundation Board of Directors, staff, and volunteers at the Rocky Mountaineer Station for our 2015 Light the Way! Gala - the Foundation's 11th annual fundraiser...
“I can’t do it,” my trembling voice said weakly into the phone. “Maybe you won’t do it, but don’t tell me you can’t do it,” she said on the other end of the line...
I’m thrilled to announce our newest blog series, Q&A with Trixie, which will provide a forum to address many of the questions I often get from our community about eating disorders. Based on the questions you submit to me at trixie@lookingglassbc.com, I’m going to address the topics that so many of us wonder about...
I struggled with an eating disorder for twenty years. Literally two decades of my life were darkened by this disease and by my eventual descent into alcoholism as a way to “cope". Today, 15 year later, I am the Executive Director of the Looking Glass Foundation, and am privy to countless conversations about eating disorders, about other people’s struggle to recover...
Looking Glass Foundation respectfully acknowledges that our work takes place on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
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