Testimonials

• "Eating disorders are a lifetime struggle and I strongly believe in building and maintaining a strong positive support system. I am so thankful for the BridgePoint programs for planting the seed of self-acceptance that I needed at that time to begin my road to recovery."

• "I trust everyone and the confidentiality and the trust here. It's difficult at times, very emotional and its hard dealing with a lot of feelings but it's what you have to do and it feels so better and so supportive."

• "There's no comparison to anything else I've tried and it’s a real blessing and an opportunity to be able to come here and an opportunity not to be taken lightly. It's a privilege to be here and I know that I will leave here a different person."

• "I was here for a retreat and I left a different person in three days. It was like taking a knife and opening up a wound just like gaping open and then sewing up a tiny little bit of it while I was here. So I really wanted to come back so I could heal some more because we don't talk about the eating disorders, it's always about the pain. So there's always an underlying reason why we choose to cope that way. So it really helped me realize that the eating disorder is a behaviour, it's not who I am. I've learned a ton about myself. I was desperate to get help."

• "I can identify the issues and accept them and be able to learn how to work with that. I think over time we can say goodbye to the eating disorder. There is freedom at the end of the tunnel, but it takes work."

• "It's a place that you can come and if you're willing to put the work in for yourself, like showing up for yourself, then there's lots of opportunities to grow and change relationships, especially with yourself."

• "It's very safe and there's great support, and it’s not about the eating disorder it’s about the behavior."

• "It's not about being broken and getting fixed, it's that we are all individuals who have pain and we're learning how to cope in a very healthy way."

• "You can get up at 4 in the morning and have support. It's pretty cool that you can get up and have a glass of warm milk, get a hug and have tears fall on someone's apron that's cooking."

• "The support is unbelievable."

• "It's not hopeless. I just find without BridgePoint I don't know what I would have done. I probably wouldn't be here."

• "The team was very supportive, even at points when I was definitely not the easiest person to support. BridgePoint gave me tools that I could practice with my family, allowing us to begin to shift some of our dysfunctional dynamics. I loved that we didn’t actually focus on the food. I felt better able to deal with stress because I gained so much awareness about coping. I also got a much deeper understanding of why people have eating disorders to begin with."

• "The fact that BridgePoint operates so differently than the traditional medical model was very refreshing, and proved to be vital to my experience and healing."