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Winter Greetings
Looking Ahead to from EAT 2010
a Fantastic
Centre Update
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EAT has been a hive of busy-ness over EAT Update 1
newsletter readers.
Summer is finally almost here and the
hard for the agency to adjust to, and
the last few months. In addition to the one-to-
festive season is upon us. EAT would like to she is sorely services
one counselling missedprovided
by many of her
at EAT,
Binge
Fond Eating
Farewells 2
We hope you’re keeping warm, but
wish all our readers a very happy, peaceful clients,
counsellingwe’re excited
staff have by her
delivered new ca-
programmes Support Group 2
feeling heartened
and enjoyable Christmasthat
andthe
Newdays Year are reer and wishather
and workshops all the best
Chisnallwood for the
Intermedi- How to Cope Over Christmas
EAT Governance
2
slowly getting longer.
period. We realise that this time of year can future.
ate, Bluelight Canterbury's Wahine Toa
be stressful so we encourage you to take camp, and the Bridge Programme, and Ra-
Update
The Year of the No D’s 2 3
The last few months have been very The Youth Coordinator role has been EAT & Eden Working Together
care of yourselves, notice and respond to chel completed the GO GIRLS programme
busy at EAT, with numerous chang- filled by two
your needs, and to take time out when you with a group fromnew counsellors,
Hillmorton Ellie
High School. 2
es taking place. Rachel Lattimore,
need to. van de Gronde and Paula Partington,
Julie also continued to run a fortnightly Contact 2
our Many
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to all of the the lastEAT 8 who
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for people in over
with binge eatingthe
years, resigned
community from this
who supported role in July
our fundraising last few weeks. Ellie and Paula come
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that she did in schools and the com-we hope to awaited new system of governance
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gal advice and much internal discus-
sion, EAT’s constitution was amend-
ed at an SGM of our membership,
transforming the organisation’s previ-
ous collective model of governance
into a more conventional governance
committee.
This change offers EAT greater
safety and clarity in respect to gov-
ernance and we welcome both the
involvement of new committee mem-
bers and the continued support of
previous collective members. If you’d
like to have a say in decisions about
governance at EAT and directions of
the organisation, please do become
a member – everyone is welcome to
join. Just fill out the form included in
this newsletter and return it to us.
Like many other community or-
ganisations, the recession climate
has posed challenges for EAT, both
Binge Eating Support
Group at the Eating
Awareness Team
EAT’s binge eating support
group for women combines
peer support with information
sharing and education focused
on recovery from binge eating
issues.
The next round of the support group
will commence in early September,
providing weekly 1.5 hour sessions.
If you are interested in attending this
group, please contact Kate at EAT:
03 366 7725
eatingawareness.adult@gmail.com
in respect to funding received from
government sources and from other
philanthropic sources. We’ve been
economising over the last year and
trying to do more with less. We ap-
preciate all the support we receive
from funders and from people who
donate to EAT, as well as from every-
one who supports our own fundrais-
ing efforts. We hope to again run the
Village Press Olive Oil Fundraiser near
the end of this year – just in time to
solve everyone’s Christmas present
dilemmas! We’ll update you on this
fundraiser in the next EAT newsletter.
Please feel free to contact EAT if
you have any questions or comments
about any of the items detailed in this
newsletter. Wishing everyone the very
best for Spring – we’re almost there!
Heoi ano
The Eating Awareness Team
EAT and EDEN
Working Together
Kate and Charlotte recent-
ly visted EDEN in Auckland
as part of funding received
through the Working Together
Fund.
Future collaborations are still at the
discussion stage, but exciting things
look like they’re on the horizon! We’ll
be sure to keep you updated.
In the meantime, check out EDEN’s
website: www.eden.org.nz as well as
the Working Together Fund: www.
workingtogether.org.nz
EAT Governance
Committee
At the SGM held on 24 July
2010, the following people
were elected to the newly
formed EAT Governance
Committee:
Rashi Gadekar – Chairperson
Lucy Allen-King – Secretary and
Consumer Representative
Leona Manna – Treasurer
Fiona O’Neill
Marissa Johnpillai
Giarne Harrison
EAT can be contacted at:
PO Box 4520
Christchurch Mail Centre
CHRISTCHURCH 8013
Phone: 03 366 7725
Fax: 03 366 7720
Email: eat@chch.planet.org.nz
Web: www.eat.org.nz
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
Laura Only
For 22 years, two letters defined me – ED (noun, verb,
plural, singular, life threatening).
As if labels were etched on my skin -
fragile, damaged, chronic, incurable, I
was treated differently and lived a life
full of misery and missed potentials. I
believed this was all I was capable of
because I was not fully whole.
Then a light switched on and life
became accessible to me. I began
to live and participate to the best of
my capabilities. True, still wearing the
labels, but no longer believing that
I couldn’t change or be part of this
world. I started to realise that I had
the power and could choose to fight
the system, the illness, the recovery,
but at the end of the day I am left with
me and therefore needed to change
my battles.
Recovery doesn’t end with a magic
number or closed file. In fact the jour-
ney never ends. But you can choose
your destination and with the right
skills, maps and determination (the
one you used to get on this track),
you can go anywhere. Don’t ever
let someone tell you that it can’t be
done.
Eating Awareness Team Staff
Kate Yeoman
Support Co-ordinator
Anita Harrison
Financial Administrator
Eating Awareness Team Governance Committee
Rashi Gadekar
Chairperson
Fiona O’Neill
Use the same fight that pushes you
to run that extra mile, deny that last
crumb, or fight the people who care
for you. Turn it around to fight for your
protection, your sanity, your right to
belong in this world.
Find a haven which embraces the
small voice inside that only ever
wanted to be heard and understood.
The best thing.... you get to choose
- perhaps a friend, therapist, furry
friend. Don’t settle until you find the
place that makes you feel whole and
nurtured. Dont be afraid to seek this
place when times are hard. You owe
it to yourself and life is never as tough
when you're on your own side.
I speak from experience and years Prefer email?
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Ellie van de Gronde Paula Partington
Youth Co-ordinator Youth Co-ordinator
Charlotte Murphy
Funding Administrator
Lucy Allen-King Leona Manna
Secretary & Consumer Treasurer
Representative
Marissa Johnpillai Giarne Harrison
Youth Co-ordinators’ Welcome

Ellie van de Gronde Paula Partington

Hello, Kia ora, Talofa lava, I have worked in counselling and psychotherapy since 1990 in
Goedendag, the UK and New Zealand, with children, adolescents, adults and
families in heath, social work and school settings, as well as non-
My name is Ellie van de Gronde and
I am one of the two Youth Coordina-
governmental organisations.
tors who have the challenging task of I am enjoying settling in at EAT and creativity to do this in a safe, non-
replacing Rachel at the Eating Aware- getting to know people here. I am judgemental therapeutic relationship.
ness Team. I am very excited to start looking forward to using my passion
As well as being at EAT, I balance my
this job as I enjoy working in such a for Transactional Analysis psycho-
time with a private practice, teaching
wonderful team and such a positive therapy to enable change for people
and supervising, and with my fam-
and caring work environment. who come to the service. I believe
ily and hobbies. I particularly like the
that TA is a creative and valuable ap-
Originally from the Netherlands, I outdoors lifestyle, which is one of the
proach to work with eating and body
love meeting people from all kind of things that attracted me to come to
image issues, which I have experi-
different cultures, and if I left your New Zealand in 2005.
ence of working with throughout my
language out in the greeting, just let
career. My belief is that people are Paula
me know. I like to include everyone,
able to work through their difficulties BA (Hons) Psych, MSc Psych &
whatever your background is.
and solve problems, and I aim to en- Couns (Dist), CTA, PTSTA, Regis-
My work background is in school able them to use their potential and tered Psychotherapist
counselling, having been a school
counsellor for over ten years, first at
an Auckland College, then at different
Christchurch High Schools.
I love working with young people
and their families, and I have a great
respect for the strength and resilience
that I have seen in young people in
my contacts over the years.
I see it as my task and my privilege
to encourage and support people in
their process of healing and growth,
using trust, humour, insight, patience
or just a listening ear.
My practice is based on many ther-
apeutic modalities, which I have ac-
quired in my studies in Psychology
and Psychotherapy and many other
special courses. I adapt my way of
working depending on what you bring
and what you feel up to.
If you are a former client of Rachel,
I will gladly support you in the next
step on your journey, and if you are a
new or future client I look forward to
meeting you.
With warm greetings,
Arohanui,
Ellie
Rachel’s Farewell
As some of you may know I have resigned from my role as Youth More than 20,000 UK Girl Guides
Co-ordinator at EAT. I have enjoyed working at EAT and am sad are signing a petition calling on David
and excited to be changing roles.
I am moving on to Lecture at the
CPIT in the Human Services Depart-
ment which will be a new and exciting
yet challenging role.
In my time at EAT there have been
many changes and challenges in my
role. I have loved developing my skills
in family therapy, as I believe that
educating and supporting families
provides a better outcome for youth. I
have had the privilege of working with
so many amazing young people and
so many loving families and the im-
print of that work will be forever on
my heart.
I would like to thank all the profes-
sionals who I have had the honour of
working along side, as your collabo-
ration has ensured individuals and
families get their needs met more
effectively. To all the individuals and
families who I have journeyed with,
who have had the incredible cour-
age to become vulnerable and face
Cameron, the British Prime Minister,
life’s challenges, I will always be im-
pressed and inspired by your honesty
and integrity. I wish you all love and
happiness and hope you enjoy the
magnificent lives you all deserve.
A final note to the wonderful EAT
team (including the honorary Nickei),
I have enjoyed working with all the
different faces who have come and
gone over the past eight years as I
have learnt from all of you. Thank you
for your passion and desire to keep
EAT a holistic agency that supports
people on their journeys. I know how
hard you all work!! Remember to take
care of yourselves!
Ka kite
Rachel Lattimore
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Big Ups to the Girl
Guides!
to require every airbrushed image
in magazines to be stamped with a
warning.
The Girl Guides launched the cam-
paign in response to their own re-
search study, which revealed that half
of 16-21 year old British girls would
consider plastic surgery to change
their looks and that 42% of 14-16
year old girls had been on a diet.
A compulsory labelling system
that distinguishes more natural bod-
ies from those that have been ‘per-
fected’ through computer manipula-
tion would alert girls and women to
the fiction and impossibility of the
standards of beauty promoted by
magazines. It’s also a step to making
magazines and other forms of media
recognise their ethical responsibilities
to their readers.
Well done Girl Guides for campaign-
ing for change around body image
messages and for bringing these is-
sues to the political stage.
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