You Are Not Your Eating Disorder: A Practical Guide to Overcoming an Eating Disorder for Sufferers, Carers, Friends and Loved On

You Are Not Your Eating Disorder is a book written for anyone who lives with an eating disorder or wants to know how to help someone who does. This simple and straightforward guide created by nutritional therapist, speaker and health activist Thomas Grainger, comes from his own lived experience of successfully overcoming years of struggling with life-threateneing anorexia nervosa as well as orthorexia nervosa. Grainger tackles all the burning questions you as a sufferer or loved one have towards the nature of eating disorders. This book is the perfect starting point in not only identifying whether you or someone you know might have an eating disorder, it is also a journey through the optimal recovery process, a guide for finding your inner identity and unlocking your true potential. Grainger combines a holistic approach to understanding health and wellbeing to provide personal solutions to restoring health, vitality and happiness for anyone experiencing an eating disorder. He provides the essential steps to beating an eating disorder for life.

Thomas Grainger is a creative producer and wellness coach from Sydney, Australia. After suffering from anorexia and orthorexia nervosa for several years, he was inspired to combine his expertise in digital media production with his passion for helping others overcome their debilitating personal issues, to embark on a journey of spreading an international message about self-acceptance, empowerment and body awareness. Thomas has had his works around body image and issues of the male identity feature in international film festivals including Germany, Sydney and Austria. In 2014, Thomas launched an online Podcast talk show, Beyond The Body, which deals with promoting an understanding and awareness of the seriousness of body image issues as a psychological illness. Thomas currently lives in Tübingen, Germany and studies full time via correspondence to the University of Technology Sydney, in a double degree in Communications and International Studies. He dreams to one day deliver a TED Talk about overcoming disordered self-belief behaviours that leads to an eating disorder and create documentaries in the field of mind, body and spirit. Discover more at: thomasgrainger.info