This year’s focus for Mental Health Awareness Week is loneliness. There are number of factors that increase our chances of experiencing long lasting loneliness, which has the potential to significantly impact our mental health. These risk factors include living alone, being from an ethnic minority community and having a long-term health condition. Though of course anyone can experience feeling lonely.
Working with women who battle with disordered eating, I have witnessed how loneliness can play a role especially where emotional eating and binge eating are concerned. And having any eating disorder can make an individual feel extremely alone and isolated- consumed with shame that keeps them from sharing their experience with others.
If this is something you struggle with, please don’t face it alone. Come and join our Food Freedom Collective community where you will be amongst like-minded women striving to reclaim their life. Connection with others that understand what you’re going through can give you a sense of belonging and positively impact how you’re feeling.