For 15 years, she studied eating disorders. She was hiding one too.

I love the way that you framed that around our relationship with food and our relationship with ourselves.

And I'd love to come back to that.

But yes, so I am the founder of Journeyed Eating Disorder Support Aotearoa.

We're a brand new organization and our kaupapa is around making sure that no one has to go through an eating disorder journey alone.

Our first community offering is Journey Together, which is an online peer support group and happy to also go into a little bit more about what peer support is, what I mean when I say peer support.

It's an online group for anyone aged over 18 who is experiencing an eating disorder or eating-related distress.

It's really a community, a way of connecting with other people who may have a similar experience to you and walking alongside each other online.

on that journey of healing.

So we have one group running at the moment, and we're going to have a further three groups starting up this year.

But since we launched the groups, we've been inundated by people who want to be part of this because there actually isn't anything else at the moment for people that's free and accessible.

So we're working very hard to get more groups up and running as soon as we can.

As a new organization, our resources are currently fairly limited.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And normally when we think about disordered eating and helping people with eating disorders, I always think it would be one-to-one counseling, one-to-one support.

You're talking to people who have expertise in this particular field, but you're offering a program where there is peer support.

So you're actually come together as a group.

Is that something that you had thought of yourself after your own research and your own lived experience?

Yeah, so it's a really good question.

And you're right, that is often our approach to any kind of support is really doing it on a one-to-one basis.

And ultimately, we will be offering a one-to-one peer support network as well.

But I think there is a power in community.

There is a power in social citizenship that these group settings offer.

And look, groups are not going to be for everybody, but...

I think I have lived experience of anorexia.