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Village Press Fundraiser
Our next Village Press Olive Oil fundraiser has started!
Here’s your chance to get a great
deal on excellent quality olive oil in
time for Christmas and support EAT
at the same time. We’re running this
fundraiser for a second time this year
because of demand!
The Village Press olive oil is a single
cultivar, first press, cold press, unfil-
tered, additive-free, kosher & halal
certified, extra virgin olive oil.
EAT is offering three Village Press ol-
ive oil products at a special fundrais-
ing price.
This offer is fantastic, since the pric-
es are well below RRP, and compa-
rable to common imported oil brands
available in supermarkets, yet this is
high quality NZ grown and produced
extra virgin, first- and cold-pressed
olive oil.
EAT Governance Update
Kia Ora koutou
It is my pleasure to be the chairper-
son of the EAT governance board for
the year 2010-11. As EAT has moved
to a Governance Board structure, a
number of you have agreed to give
your time and energies to this very
important work in our community. On
the Board as treasurer is Leona Man-
na, as Secretary Lucy Allen- King and
Giarne Clarke Harrison, Fiona O’Neill
and Marissa Johnpillai. Each one of
these women is a wahine toa in her
own right and the Board and staff
group are well postioned to take EAT
towards its future vision.
By purchasing from this offer you
know you are buying award winning
olive oils at unbeatable prices and
The Village Press will donate $40.00
(incl GST) per case back to EAT. Su-
perb value! All proceeds go directly
to EAT to help fund ongoing essential
costs.
If you are interested, please find
more information regarding the fun-
draiser and an order form attached.
Orders can be sent directly to EAT
(details are on the form). Payment is
required at the time of order – by cash
or cheque. Orders close 3rd Decem-
ber and you will receive your order in
the week ending the 17th December
(in time for Christmas!).
Feel free to forward this offer on to
anyone who might be interested – the
more the merrier!
A little about me - I am a counsel-
lor in private practice and have been
working in the social services in
Christchurch since 1991. My profes-
sional interests include group work
and therapy around sexual abuse
perpetration and victimisation. My
partner and I have four children and
we usually spend time debating ethi-
cal issues, watching movies and plays
and travelling as and when we can. I
look forward to getting to know each
of you better as we work together.
Rashi Gadekar
Resource Assistant
Volunteer
EAT is looking for a volun-
teer to help maintain and or-
ganise our resources to the
public.
This role involves re-stocking
pamphlet supplies, maintaining
our library, creating a directory
of professional services, and
sourcing relevant web and print
resources for the service. 2-3
hours per week/fortnight.
For further information and
a position description, please
contact EAT: 03 366 7725 eat@
chch.planet.org.nz
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Merry Christmas!
These words, Merry Christmas, mean a lot of different things to
different people.
Some people will be elated as they
look forward to having time off work
and spending time with the people
they love. Some look forward to par-
tying or lots of presents. Others will
stress out with all the preparations or
will dread the hype that seems to go
with Christmas.
Where are you on this continuum?
It would not be unusual for people
with eating difficulties to feel a mix
of pleasure and dread. Yes, it is nice
to have time off work or study and to
see friends and relatives, but the em-
phasis on food around Christmas can
be a big stressor.
Maybe you have already developed
strategies to cope with the high pres-
sure around Christmas. This is the
time to remember them. Which ones
worked for you and which ones need
to be modified? Have you learned
new ways of coping in the mean time?
You might want to practice these
with your counsellor or support per-
son. Or you could write them down
on cards, so you can grab them when
you actually need it.
Here is a list of some practical tips
that I found in the December 2009 is-
sue of ‘The looking Glass’, the news-
letter for the Queensland Eating Dis-
order Association, that you can find in
our library in the waiting room.
• Give yourself permission to say No
to invitations if you feel overwhelmed.
• Think of responses you may give
when meeting family members or
friends you haven’t seen for a while.
Practice them.
• Talk to your family, partner or sup-
port person about your fears and
concerns and how you can manage
them together.
• If you don’t know what food will
be served, ask the person who is or-
ganising the meal, or let your support
person do this.
• Offer to take food to share, and
take ‘safe’ food for yourself to eat.
• Remember, all eyes will not be
watching how much or little you eat;
usually people are too busy with their
own meal and chatting away.
• Most people overeat at Christmas
and often comment on the quantity
they have eaten. Remember that their
comments are not aimed at you.
• Take time out to relax: listen to
your favourite music, talk to a trusted
person, go for a walk with someone
you like, or sit in the garden soaking
up the atmosphere.
• Give yourself permission to enjoy
the festivities. You do not have to be
happy and smile all the time, no one
expects that.
• Tensions often increase around
Christmas time as stress reduces
people’s abilities to communicate
and listen effectively. You are not re-
sponsible for this.
• Take a break from self-criticism
and comparing yourself to others.
Relax and enjoy the moment.
Being prepared for Christmas stress
and having your strategies in place
will help you to enjoy the Christmas
period more. Remember that the joy
of Christmas lies in celebrating good
times in good company, it is never
about the food.
Wishing you all a Prepared and Mer-
ry Christmas,
Ellie van de Gronde (Youth Coordi-
nator)
Consumer
Representative
If you have any issues, con-
cerns, complaints, compliments
or suggestions that you’d like
to have raised at EAT, please
contact EAT’s Consumer Repre-
sentative, Lucy Allen-King. Lucy
can liaise anonymously with any
EAT clients and families/whanau
in regard to their experiences at
EAT and bring client feedback to
Governance Committee meet-
ings.
eatingawareness.representative@
gmail.com
Bridget’s Story
Many things influenced my Journey.
Bulimia introduced itself to me the
year I started High School. It stuck
around for the next twenty years or
so. At times it seemed like it was my
only friend at other times it was a bot-
tomless swamp that I was struggling
to escape, that I feared I would disap-
pear into forever. When I look back on
those years it was as if life had little
colour or intensity. Bulimia dulled my
pain and quietened my anxieties and
worries but it stole my joy too.
At times Bulimia tried to take away
my hope, my vitality, my love of life
and my ability to be present with the
people I loved. It tried to trick me into
believing that the only way I could
show my worth, competency and
control was through my body…if my
body was ‘acceptable’ then I was ac-
ceptable….I gave my voice away to
bulimia.
How did I learn to live outside the
dominating effects of this two-faced
friend?
Many things influenced my journey.
I lived, I learnt, I read, I hoped, and I
found out there were people who be-
lieved in me, who saw me (not a diag-
nosis, disorder, dysfunction).I was in-
troduced to feminist ideas and theory
which also helped me to start putting
space between myself and bulim-
ia. Feminist discourse raised some
questions, it invited me to challenge
some of the assumptions I held.
Then there was an unexpected gift,
a gift which came with becoming a
mother. My strong desire to love and
care for my babies meant I was more
able to care for myself. I try and car-
ry this desire into action every day,
some days better than others.
Each day my intention and hope is
to live kindly and mindfully, to show
compassion to myself and to others.
Writing helps me to stay close to
these intentions and it has become a
space where I have learned to hear
my voice again.
When I write I make the space for
the identity claims I make about my-
self to grow, to flourish, to expand.
Writing allows me to ‘text myself’, to
give words to my experience, to give
form to previously shapeless inclina-
tions. As the pen moves across the
page it is like I come into focus-I take
form somehow in a way that means I
can see myself and reflect upon what
it is that I see. The turbulent thoughts
and feelings that swim around me
fleeting, intangible, infuriatingly elu-
sive, begin to take on a rhythm and a
pattern in print. The motion of my pen
moving across the page creates new
possibilities. It’s as if I have recon-
nected in this simple way; my body
and mind are somehow in rhythm,
collaborating, and together they help
shape what is happening for me into
a form that I can interact with. A form
that I love, that gives meaning to my
experience. It’s reliable, it’s soothing,
it’s solid---the written word.
This simple physical act of using my
body to clarify, express, represent
my thoughts and feelings right now-
this act it grows my trust in my body,
myself. It strengthens my faith in my
ability to care for myself. By honour-
ing my voice I honour my body some-
how.
Bridget
Poems from Bridget
Cherish
Letting myself slow down
I languish here in this moment
Where a lifetime is held in a look
Finding a truth here
This is where love grows

Good Intentions
Living now
Loving this
Embracing what is
Finding joy in small grey places
Like Monday mornings when we’re late
Or bulging flesh that seems to mock me
Finding time to love
When I’m right in the middle of this!
The endless list.
Reaching out gently
To the possibility
That joy is here too

Eating Awareness Team Staff

Kate Yeoman Ellie van de Gronde Paula Partington
Support Co-ordinator Youth Co-ordinator Youth Co-ordinator

Anita Harrison Charlotte Murphy

Financial Administrator Funding Administrator

Eating Awareness Team Governance Committee

Rashi Gadekar Lucy Allen-King Leona Manna
Chairperson Secretary & Consumer Treasurer
Representative

Fiona O’Neill Marissa Johnpillai Giarne Harrison

  
 
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The Village Press Fundraiser Olive Oil Offer
 
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(Barnea, Frantoio & Picual)
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