#LivedExperience Peer Support Worker in #EatingDisorders @mpftnhs (all views my own)
Joined April 2024
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Esther Greaney retweeted
🏆 Winner of the Outstanding Contribution to Nursing Care Award — Hollie Preston of Black Country Health & Justice Services
Congratulations Hollie
Also, a big Well Done to Finalist & Eating Disorders Esther Greaney 👏
@Inclusion_NHS @WellnessMPFT @mpftnhs
#MPFT #NHS
Gutted to have missed the fantastic content of this event that I had been so looking forward to. Was supposed to be there in person but flooding caused by Storm Bert had other ideas for my travel plans! However, I am so grateful to have still been able to contribute via Teams
Fabulous day at the @BPSOfficial Peer support in Eating Disorders conference today. Great to be in person & to hear all the work going on across the UK. Also wonderful hear about @jessthegriff work on peer support and resources that will soon be available on the FREED website.
So proud to be part of this fab team 🩵
Today, we're highlighting our wonderful @mpftnhs Eating Disorders service for #WellnessWeek 🩵
"Everyone here has such a passion for the job"
Hear more from the team about what it's like to work in Eating Disorders ⬇️
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#WellnessMatters #TurnoutTuesday
Esther Greaney retweeted
I am presenting as a patient rep at the @rcpsychEDFac Special Interest Day on Thursday. The topic is transitions in care. I will be talking about my personal experiences but I would be keen to include quotes from others. Please DM me if you would be happy to share #eatingdisorder
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🙏 A big thank you to our Lived Experience & Communities Panel members for their contributions: @GabrielleAlphon, @emmajdoble, Karin Schoonenberg Désirée Hairwassers, @Hartoft, Stella O’Brien, @khanna_prachi_, @EstherGreaney, Eman Shannan, @AnneMiekVroom #WorldPatientSafetyDay
youtu.be/Vnw1LEWh0dQ?si=0bel…
Hii I wrote a piece about my #EatingDisorder recovery journey/why recovery is so worthwhile, and I read it on camera 🎥 always a bit nerve wracking doing things like this, but so proud of my work every single day 😊 #LivedExperience #PeerSupport
Just caught up with all my emails after 2 weeks of annual leave!! Gold star for me ⭐️
I am very fortunate to have a job I love so much and it feels good to back!
I have been very bad at using this recently because I’ve been so busy with work! In a good way! My adhd has been being a bit overly optimistic about how much time there is in each day though, but it is holiday time soon so I will be able to relax properly! 😅
Esther Greaney retweeted
Can we stop the culture of expecting people to speak about lived experience for free?
Was approached on LinkedIn at 11pm with a keynote request. A polite “Is this a paid opp” was met with “If this is a deciding factor then…”. Would you ask a builder, teacher, hairdresser 🧵
I am finishing peer support sessions with one of our service users who is about to complete treatment, she just sent me a lovely text to say it’s sad it will be our last one but she’s happy with the time we’ve had and how much positive impact I’ve had on her - I feel so proud🥹💗
Happy Wednesday everyone, here is a video of Woody being very happy to see me after work yesterday - so happy that he jumped up onto my shoulders and stayed there for about 5 minutes 😆💗 the weight of a 13yr old boy cat on your neck is quite hard to support, but I love him
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Things you don’t need to have experienced for your eating disorder to be valid:
• hospital admissions
• intensive treatment
• therapy
• a diagnosis
• being sectioned
• being underweight
• avoiding certain food groups
• recognition from other people
• body dysmorphia
So glad I went to the #DumpTheScales march with my friend, it gave her a much needed boost of motivation to keep going with her recovery too which was so lovely to hear 🥹🩷
I swear #emetophobia is one of THE most debilitating phobias, no matter how hard I try to remind myself it’s totally irrational, I still go into full on panic mode when it gets triggered 😭 It has such a huge negative impact on my life and everything I do, it’s exhausting.
#DumpTheScales - such a moving, emotional, & beautiful day. We cried, we laughed, we marched 🩷 thanks to @HopeVirgo for bringing so many incredible, brave humans together for such an important cause. Our voices are loud as one & we will shout until we are heard! ✊🏻✨
Thanks to @drchuks_ for the shoutout for Shrewsbury 😂! Thanks for having a chat with me afterwards about my work as a #LivedExperience peer support worker & the great work @MpftSpecialist Shropshire/Stafford Eating Disorders teams are doing🫶
My friend and I have been on a last minute dash (after a busy week!) to make some signs for the #DumpTheScales march tomorrow in London ✊🏻✨💕
So proud ✨🩷 👏🏻 what a huge achievement!!
Em you were with me every step of the way yesterday, when it got hard I remembered my why. @myvoiceisenough WE RAN THE LONDON MARATHON 💕
@LondonMarathon
Esther Greaney retweeted
Have you used MINDFULNESS as a tool in recovery from Anorexia? if so we want to hear from you for a MSc research project. Please email [email protected] or dm me (and pls share) #eatingdisorders #research #recovery