Tell Your Eating Disorder to F**ck Off

Blurb

…I want the rest of my life to be the best of my life, and I am determined to not have an ED be a part of that. This is what we all deserve.

Tell Your Eating Disorder to F**k Off is a self-help book for eating disorders from someone who lives with one. Kate Purcell has spent much of her life in the grips of anorexia nervosa.

Now healthy and happy, she is here to tell you how to separate who you are from your Disorder.

In these pages are the tools to start building a life that you are in love with. A life full of hope and inspiration and without the looming shadow of an eating disorder. Here, in these pages, is your ED’s kryptonite.

With empathy and encouragement, Kate leads you to a place where you can confidently stand up and fight. To begin the earth-shattering battle between yourself and your struggles with food, weight and negative self-perception.

It’s time to join the path towards healing. Allow this book to be the light at the end of the tunnel and a powerful declaration to your eating disorder to f**k right off. Your life awaits. Let’s do this.

Author Bio

For over a decade, Kate Purcell has worked in the community as a peer worker, mental health advocate, group facilitator and alcohol and drug counsellor. She has worked at a variety of organisations in Western Australia, including RUAH community services, NEAMI National and the Mental Health Advocacy Service.

As a teenager, Kate spent two years in institutionalised care to treat anorexia. She was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder at the age of 26.

Kate encapsulates hope, and she has a passion for sharing her experiences to not only provide hope to others, but also reduce mental health stigma in society. She enjoys public speaking and writing, using both as a means to help reduce the stigma associated with mental health issues.

She lives in Perth with her partner Leon, and their fur-baby cat, Pan. Hope Inc. is her first book.