Eating Disorders and Addictions Programs Ltd.
Whether you’re looking to recover from an eating disorder or disordered eating, improve your body image, or kick diet mentality to the curb, Blossom Place Eating Disorders and Addictions Program is the first of its kind in Canada, and provides a supportive community to help you reach your recovery goals.
We’re not a treatment centre — we offer a variety of premier inpatient and outpatient programs, including second- and third-stage live-in recovery houses, group therapy, creative art therapy, psycho-education, yoga, hands-on guidance with nutrition and movement that honours every body, and much more. Offering a second- and third-stage recovery house for women, and customizable outpatient programs, we can meet you wherever you are.
With a focus on body positivity and community activism, we’re proud of our collective of resilient, hopeful individuals that embrace their own bodies’ wisdom, support each other, and carry the message that recovery is within reach.
Struggling for a long time in the world of an eating disorder, I experienced being alone and afraid with no safe place to go. I walked into recovery in October of 2011. Even as I abstained from drugs and alcohol, I lacked the support to recover from the eating disorder.
In less than a year, I was admitted into hospital. The disorder took on a whole new power and strength that had my body shutting down. The doctor told me that I had to stop, or I would die. The road to recovery — to health and wellbeing — was long and difficult.
In the years since, I accumulated the necessary credentials and experience to found Blossom Place Eating Disorders and Addictions Program, the first recovery house of its kind in Canada, in order to fill the need for the love, support, and expertise that would have greatly benefited me throughout my own journey.
-Deanna Sullivan
Founder of Blossom Place, Executive Director
Blossom Place/NANAIMO
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