- Eating Disorder Recovery Coaching
- Eating Disorder Recovery Coaching
Welcome to Recovered Hope.
I am glad to be able to connect with you here,,, my name is Nicola, and I am a Certified Eating Disorder Recovery Coach. I am originally from the UK, I grew up in a town in Kent with my two brothers and my loving family. When I was 20, I met my husband and two years later we were married and had immigrated to his homeland of South Africa. We had 3 beautiful children over the next 8 years and South Africa became my home for the next 22 years, the place we chose to raise our children. Then just 4 years ago, we, as a family made the life changing decision to immigrate to New Zealand and after lots of adjusting and accepting, we now call this our home.
Welcome to Recovered Hope
I am glad to be able to connect with you here,,, my name is Nicola, and I am a Certified Eating Disorder Recovery Coach. I am originally from the UK, I grew up in a town in Kent with my two brothers and my loving family. When I was 20, I met my husband and two years later we were married and had immigrated to his homeland of South Africa. We had 3 beautiful children over the next 8 years and South Africa became my home for the next 22 years, the place we chose to raise our children. Then just 4 years ago, we, as a family made the life changing decision to immigrate to New Zealand and after lots of adjusting and accepting, we now call this our home.
One thing I have learned is that everyone has a unique story to tell with regards to their eating disorder journey. For me it began when I was in my first year of college, studying Art. I had always paid attention to how I looked but had never worried about my weight or size…but it was the era of the supermodel, and I was drawn into the idea of being able to look like one of them. I had never been a perfectionist really, until this. This, I was going to achieve, no matter what it took. Over the next 2 years I strived to reach what I thought was perfection, not realising that all I was doing was putting my life at risk and making my world smaller and lonelier every step of the way. My decision to heal came slowly and it certainly wasn’t easy. I could not find the help or support I needed but was determined that this was not going to be my life. I would love to say that I was fully recovered before I had my children, but that would be a lie. What I will say, is that my children were my inspiration to recover, I wanted to be able to enjoy life with them and by digging deep, doing lots of soul searching, learning to stop treating my eating disorder as my enemy and instead learning from it, reaching a place of understanding what it was doing for me so that I could find other ways to meet those needs, I eventually found full recovery. It was a rocky road with lots of ups and downs. I slowly made small changes which led to lasting changes and eventually led me to a recovered life.
One thing I have learned is that everyone has a unique story to tell with regards to their eating disorder journey. For me it began when I was in my first year of college, studying Art. I had always paid attention to how I looked but had never worried about my weight or size…but it was the era of the supermodel, and I was drawn into the idea of being able to look like one of them. I had never been a perfectionist really, until this. This, I was going to achieve, no matter what it took. Over the next 2 years I strived to reach what I thought was perfection, not realising that all I was doing was putting my life at risk and making my world smaller and lonelier every step of the way. My decision to heal came slowly and it certainly wasn’t easy. I could not find the help or support I needed but was determined that this was not going to be my life. I would love to say that I was fully recovered before I had my children, but that would be a lie. What I will say, is that my children were my inspiration to recover, I wanted to be able to enjoy life with them and by digging deep, doing lots of soul searching, learning to stop treating my eating disorder as my enemy and instead learning from it, reaching a place of understanding what it was doing for me so that I could find other ways to meet those needs, I eventually found full recovery. It was a rocky road with lots of ups and downs. I slowly made small changes which led to lasting changes and eventually led me to a recovered life.
Recovery Coaching with Nicola Colman CCIEDC
