Through hosting events in our community we hope to achieve these aims:
1. To raise awareness and advocate for individuals and families struggling with eating disorders.
2. To create a sense of community and foster a sense of support.
3. To allow individuals to participate in shaping change in their community.
A peer support group for adults who struggle with disordered eating or eating disorders. This EDAW-themed meeting is a safe, inclusive, and judgement-free space to connect with your peers across the nation.
Join VIVED at Victoria Pride Festival in the Park at MacDonald Park, located on unceded traditional lək̓ʷəŋən territory. Our booth will be near the low-sensory lounge located near the James Bay School & Community Centre on Oswego Street.
Rally at the Legislature on the last day of Eating Disorders Awareness Week to call for better lives for adults with eating disorders on Vancouver Island.
Join us for a community peer activity at the beach searching for sea glass on Monday, February 5th, 2024 to celebrate our community and collective healing.
Join us on Friday, February 2nd for our annual Purple Friday online awareness contest to recognize national Eating Disorders Awareness Week (EDAW) 2024.
A panel discussion on eating disorders. You are invited to join us for our second Virtual Town Hall to acknowledge national Eating Disorders Awareness Week (EDAW) on Thursday February 1st, 2024 from 6:30 to 8:00 PM PST.
Come gather with VIVED and our community members to honour the lives we have lost to those struggling with eating disorders (whether through medical complications or suicidality) and honours those of us fighting for change. This year's Eating Disorders Awareness Week (EDAW) theme is "Transforming the Narrative: From Asks to Action." There is no better place to take a stand for action than on the steps of B.C.'s Legislative Buildings on one of the first days that government officials resume sitting. Join us in calling for action now.
Join us for Eating Disorders Awareness Week (EDAW) 2023 by wearing purple and winning prizes!
Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2023 Bingo!
Follow along for daily ways you can take action to create needed change (and for the chance to win prizes!)
We welcome you to attend a collaborative conversation between persons with lived/living experience, professionals, and loved ones of those living with an eating disorder. During this event we will discuss what services there are on Vancouver Island briefly, before exploring how we can work together to expand and improve services for adults with eating disorders.
A chance to come together as a community and spend some time creating and connecting.
A chance to come together as a community and spend some time creating and connecting.
VIVED meets monthly to discuss current projects and future goals. This event is open to the community (and those interested in getting involved). Please contact us if you would like to attend.
We are really excited to be able to share this Yoga for Healing Class (being offered by donation) through one of our VIVED members (the lovely @charlesmeow).
In support of VIVED, for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week,
Carley will be offering a gentle 90 minute Yin/Yang style all levels class. This class will encourage you to listen to and take what feels good in your body while moving through stretching, gentle movement, breath work and a Metta meditation.
This is a by donation class, no need to regiater just show up! Proceeds will go to support VIVED Vancouver Island Voices for Eating Disorders. VIVED is a local non profit organization that is a developing collection of voices interested in eating disorder advocacy and awareness in our community. This class is open and welcoming to everyone.
Feb 6th 5:30-7PM
Yoga Den Lower Studio
Cash Donations
Our first meeting of the new year!
It’s a time to come together and do some EDAW planning, looking at the year ahead and what we’d like to achieve, as well as continued planning for a future initiative to create community services for eating disorders in our community of Victoria, B.C.
All are welcome to attend!
The City of Victoria will be signing a proclamation officially recognizing the first week of February (1-7) as Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2020. In addition, our VIVED members will have the opportunity to speak with City Council (January 23 at 6:30 PM) about the importance of this awareness event and the changes needed in our community to support individuals and families struggling with eating disorders.
We want to thank the Victoria City Council for their support in raising awareness for eating disorders.
Join us on December 15th from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM for some crafting and planning for future projects.
We are very excited to announce an upcoming event for the month of December - the Recovery Advent Challenge 2019!
We will be doing this challenge via Instagram and our Facebook page.
We have created a calendar with daily challenges people can take on whether they live in our community of Vancouver Island or want to participate from a distance. We will be posting the challenges daily (in an easier to read format) and encourage anyone who wants to, to participate!
The challenges are designed to be flexible in order to respect that people are in different places in their journey and recovery looks different on everyone.
The hope is for people to challenge themselves, but participate in a way that feels safe for them, create a sense of community and support over the holidays by sharing in each others challenges and achievements, and embrace the (sometimes challenging) holiday season. There’s no pressure to participate every day, it’s up to each person to decide what feels good for them.
We hope you’ll join us for the month of December. There will be the chance to win a holiday care package (details to come) so stay tuned for more details. We will be using the hashtag #recoveryadventchallenge2019. Daily challenge posts will start on December 1st.
If you have questions, we’re just a message away!
Our monthly meetings are an opportunity to get-together and discuss the ways in which we want to move forward. Meetings are open to anyone in our community who wishes to attend.
In September of 2018, Vancouver Island Voices for Eating Disorders (VIVED) became an incorporated non-profit society in the province of British Columbia. As such, we are required to hold an Annual General Meeting (AGM) 18 months from our date of incorporation. The purpose of such a meeting is to comply with legal requirements, such as the presentation and approval of financial statements, decisions about future direction, and discussions of issues raised by members over the past term.
Essentially an AGM is the chance for us to review what we have done, ensure we are staying true to our vision, values, and missions, resolve any issues raised by members. We intend to spend the majority of this meeting having a simple, casual conversation about moving forward and how we do that.
VIVED is excited to be supporting the Victoria Pride Festival 2019. Join us on July 7!
Vancouver Island Voices for Eating Disorders (VIVED) is proud to be supporting the B.C. CMHA for the annual “Ride Don’t Hide” event.
“Ride Don’t Hide is a nationwide fundraising bike ride that brings mental health out into the open. Join us for the eighth annual Ride Don’t Hide on June 23, 2019, in over 25 communities across Canada. Ride Don’t Hide is the largest mental health bike ride in Canada with almost 10,000 riders and hundreds more family members, friends and volunteers across Canada taking part, raising more than $2 million each year for the Canadian Mental Health Association. Get on your bike and join the movement. Ride. Don’t hide.”
Everyone deserves to feel well, whatever their mental health experience. In order to thrive, we all need a good sense of self, and we all need purpose, contribution, hope, resilience and belonging. When we hide from each other and from how we’re feeling, we don’t get the support or help we deserve or need. So, Ride Don’t Hide gives thousands of people across Canada the opportunity to connect—to their own mental health, to each other and to their broader communities, while raising critical funds that support CMHA mental health programs and services in their own communities. Ride Don’t Hide events are welcoming community events that build awareness, inclusion and acceptance, and where everyone is encouraged and supported to speak openly about their own mental health.”
The event takes place from 6:00-12:00 on June 23, 2019. You can register to walk, ride, or volunteer through the CMHA’s website: https://ridedonthide.com/
We will have a booth at the event from 8:00-12:00 on June 23, 2019 (although the actual event starts at 6:00AM). Contact us if you would like to volunteer at our booth (see our contact page for details) or just come by and say hi on the day of the event. We will also be offering rock painting at the event.
We look forward to seeing you there!
- The VIVED team
Time for our next event and nicely timed too as June 2nd is World Eating Disorder’s Action Day.
Rocks, art supplies (including paint brushes, paint, stencils, markers, etc.) will be supplied. The paints provided will be outdoor paints, environmentally friendly and non-toxic. Remember creativity is about the process, not about perfection! Rock painting is good practice in letting go of perfection as it's messy in nature.
Afterwards, you are welcome to take your rocks home or place them in your own favourite spots around the city. If preferred, we will collect the rocks and place them in the community for you.
All are welcome to attend! Bring your friends or significant others too if you like.
We recognize that a large part of the individuals in this community are in various places of recovery or are recovered from an eating disorder. We hope this event can be a chance for people to get together and practice some creativity. Conversation around personal experience is of course natural. Many of the quotes or statements painted on our rocks in the past are recovery-oriented in nature and may touch on topics such as body image, diet culture, mental health/illness, etc. But we want to encourage and remind folks that conversation (and the art we create) doesn't have to be limited to just those things, in fact, we encourage it to be much broader!
We do ask people refrain from sharing potentially triggering or graphic details of their personal experience with an eating disorder or other mental health condition.
We will have identified "hosts" of this event who you can contact if you have questions and who will bring supplies, but we would like to remind people that while we are all peers coming together with some common experiences, we are not a replacement for professional supports. We will happily assist you in finding appropriate services/supports as best we can.
We hope this type of event and other community events can become something we can help support more regularly so long as people find it helpful.
A chance to come together to create some art, build some community, and enjoy the spring sunshine.
Rocks, art supplies (including paint brushes, paint, stencils, markers, etc.) will be supplied. The paints provided will be outdoor paints, environmentally friendly and non-toxic. Remember creativity is about the process, not about perfection! Rock painting is good practice in letting go of perfection as it's messy in nature.
Afterwards, you are welcome to take your rocks home or place them in your own favourite spots around the city. If preferred, we will collect the rocks and place them in the community for you.
All are welcome to attend! Bring your friends or significant others too if you like.
We recognize that a large part of the individuals in this community are in various places of recovery or are recovered from an eating disorder. We hope this event can be a chance for people to get together and practice some creativity. Conversation around personal experience is of course natural. Many of the quotes or statements painted on our rocks in the past are recovery-oriented in nature and may touch on topics such as body image, diet culture, mental health/illness, etc. But we want to encourage and remind folks that conversation (and the art we create) doesn't have to be limited to just those things, in fact, we encourage it to be much broader!
We do ask people refrain from sharing potentially triggering or graphic details of their personal experience with an eating disorder or other mental health condition.
We will have two "hosts" of this event who you can contact if you have questions and who will bring supplies, but we would like to remind people that while we are all peers coming together with some common experiences, we are not a replacement for professional supports. We will happily assist you in finding appropriate services/supports as best we can.
We hope this type of event and other community events can become something we can help support more regularly so long as people find it helpful.
