Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2025

It's Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2025!

What are you doing to mark this week?

We've already had an event on Saturday and are offering some more training/workshops later this week to help raise awareness of eating disorders and assist more clinicians to become more knowledgable and skillful when working with eating disorders and disordered eating.

We are also offering some support groups (now fully booked) and free therapy consultations at our offices in Glasgow city centre. We will continue to post about eating disorders this week and will be having lots of conversations with other individuals and companies to raise awareness.

Let's bust some stereotypes and stamp out the stigma surrounding eating disorders this #EDAW2025

Best wishes,

Talking EDs: Eating Disorders Support Service Scotland

CONTACT
W: www.eatingdisorderscotland.co.uk
E: support@eatingdisorderscotland.co.uk

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