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FOREWORD
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1. SCHOOL DOCTOR VISIT
2. MY ILLNESS DEEPENS
3. PATTY CAKE BREAKTHROUGH
4. SWEET SIXTEEN
5. ON EXCHANGE IN MISSOURI
6. ENGAGED AT 19, MARRIED AT 20
7. LOG TRUCK ACCIDENT
8. BABIES
9. RETURN TO THE LINDENOW VALLEY
10. LOSING MY SENSE OF SELF
PHOTOS
11. SEEKING HELP
12. CHILDHOOD SECRET REVEALED
13. MOVE TO THE CITY
14.ILLNESS ISOLATES AND CONQUERS
15. FIRST STEP TO RESTORATION
16. FILLING IN THE GAPS
17. WEDDINGS, A BIRD AND ME
18. SOARING
APPENDIX A: AN EATING DISORDER IN YOUR FAMILY
APPENDIX B: KEY STRATEGIES
EPILOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
To George and our children: Shane, Rohan,Benjamin and Amanda
Each story, of course, is personal and this is June’s story. As all good clinicians know, it is important for people who are ‘suffering’—as a result of life events, which have had major influences—to discuss and deal with their distress. Overcoming anxiety, such as a real or perceived fear of rejection, can be liberating and uplifting.
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My happiness was short-lived. In the first week of February, I pedalled my bike out of the valley to attend the local state school, Woodglen Primary, Number 3352, five kilometres away. Surrounded by farmland and flanked on three sides by tall pine trees, the school comprised one classroom, a porch where we hung our bags and where the little children listened to ‘Kindergarten of the Air’, and a tiny storeroom for our sport equipment. I was in Grade Six, my final year of primary school, and my cousin Daryl was the teacher. Daryl, who had been my teacher since Grade Four, had grown up in Melbourne but I knew him well as, along with many other cousins and family friends, he often stayed at my parents’ house.
There were five girls and three boys in Grade Six. Our grade was the biggest in the school, which had a total enrolment of 24 children. Most of our parents were dairy farmers. Some, like my parents, owned their property; others, including a recently arrived Dutch family with 13 children, share-farmed on a larger property.
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