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and Wessex Eating Disorders Association
"Serving those affected by eating disorders" Strode House, 10 Leigh Road, Street, Somerset, England, UK |
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Tel: 01458 448600 for the helpline Tel: 01458 448611 for admin calls only (10-3 weekdays) SEDA, Strode House, 10 Leigh Road, Street, BA16 0HA E-mails: seda@seda.ndo.co.uk or seda@ukonline.co.uk Web site: http://web.ukonline.co.uk/seda/index.htm  Love isLove is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good times and bad. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Love is content with the present; it hopes for the future and it doesn't brood over the past. It's the day-in-and-out chronicle of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories and common goals. If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough. SEDA LIBRARY We have taken the step of closing the library to borrowers until further notice as we are re-organising the service. We are putting a funding bid in for new resources for the benefit of all. Part of the reason for this re-organisation is the problems we've experienced in getting books returned. In the future we expect some books will be for reference only and can be viewed at SEDA. These will be indicated. Other books, such as self help manuals, will be available for you to borrow. We are currently doing an audit of existing books and would appreciate any books still out on loan to be returned. Sarah. The SEDA Telephone Helpline over the Christmas period.
Trained listeners are there to take your call An answer phone is available at all other times 01458 448600 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING - 2000/01 This years AGM took place on 21st November 01 when the annual report and accounts were presented and accepted by the members. Trustees elections also took place, with Janet Millar being re-elected.Mark Robinson is no longer living in the area and so has stood down as he is unable to regularly contribute time. However he is keeping in contact and is happy to offer advice and any other help in the future. We do have a new Trustee - Peter Derbyshire. Peter first heard about us from Annie and has visited SEDA during recent weeks to find out more about our plans and how he might be useful. As well as a background in accountancy Peter has worked in local authority departments and brings a new set of skills to the board. Other Trustees continue in their terms of office - Annie Wynn-Jones, Sally Parsons, Jac Hele-Kergouzou, Diana Marshall and Paul Davis. Special thanks to Sandra for producing the Annual Report, copies available on request. The evening's speaker was Neil Dhruev, Locality Manager (Mendip) from the Somerset Partnership Trust. Neil has the responsibility for the new Eating Disorder Service becoming operational, and spoke about his hopes for the proposed joint working with SEDA. He sees this as a real opportunity to offer choice to clients and for us all to learn from and with each other as we create a unique service model. We were fortunate to have a second speaker, as Ruth Taylor (EDA Self Help Co-ordinator) was able to come along en route to Exeter. Ruth updated us on the EDA's priorities and progress over recent months, with a London office now established and plans to develop services in Wales. The EDA has also been working on a new information pack for schools which will be launched as part of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week in February. It was a pleasure to have Ruth, even for a couple of hours, and we appreciated her breaking into a long journey so as to join us. Tricia Roche (SEDA Manager) CHANUKAH - Miracle of Light. The Jewish Festival of Chanukah, in December, remembers a military victory but above all celebrates what came next. The Greeks had defiled the Temple, and destroyed the stocks of consecrated oil. There was just a small jar of oil left - enough to keep the holy flame alight for one day. It takes eight days for the process of preparing the oil so the priests lit the flame to get the one day of holiness and began the task of getting fresh stocks ready for the following week. The miracle is that the flame lasted for the eight days until the new oil was available to keep it alight. So every Chanukah a Menorah (special candelabra) is lit - one candle on day one, two one day two and so on until the last day of the festival when eight lights burn brightly from sunset until it is truly dark of night. Given that the first day of the oil lasting was as it normally should and only seven of the days was miraculous why eight lights? My favourite answer to that question is that the first day's light was just as miraculous - it is to remind us that everyday ordinary events have within them the light and sanctity of the amazing, we just don't notice it because we are used to it. And the ordinary includes us - we each have the capacity to shine not just in the way we are expected to or believe ourselves capable of but more brightly and in unexpected ways. Winter festivals need light to help us through the gloomy, short days and remind us that the sun returns, Spring comes again. Each light can also remind us that we can come through our own dark times and have new, fresh beginnings and growth. I hope that the year ahead is such a time for you, and for SEDA. 
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There is a list of folks I know all written in a book, and every year at Christmas time I go and take a look. And that is when I realise those names are all a part not of the book they’re written in, but deep inside my heart. For each name stands for someone who has touched my life sometime. And in that meeting they’ve become a special friend of mine. I really feel that I’m composed of each remembered name. And my life is so much better than it was before they came. Once you’ve known that “Someone” all the years cannot erase the memory of a pleasant word or of a friendly face. So never think my Christmas cards are just a mere routine of names upon a list that are forgotten in between. For when I send a Christmas card that is addressed to you, it is because you’re on that list of folks I’m indebted to and whether I have known you for many years or a few. The greatest gift that God can give is having friends like you! MAY THE CHRISTMAS GIFTS OF PEACE, JOY AND LOVE BE YOURS Anon.
CHRISTMAS SUPPORT NEWS Christmas is often a time for reflection as well as all the hustle and bustle of activity. For us thinking back over the past year and all that we've been involved with in SEDA, there's been a lot of activity through our involvement in the development of the new eating disorder service. We've also been working together to develop a creative arts therapy group for people with eating disorders, which we both feel very excited about, and we will let you know when it will begin. We have both continued to offer One-to-One sessions to sufferers and those involved in supporting sufferers. What will stay with us though is a sense of the courage of those we meet with, and a sense that each one of us is valuable and special. Thinking of you all this Christmas, with love from Anita and Dinah. 
 SEDA PENPAL SCHEME.If you are interested in having a penpal through SEDA do write to me (Sandra Woodward) here at SEDA.(Address on front page) We have had a very limmited response so far, So propose to start in the Spring Bulletin with your "adverts". You will need to send us your Name, Full Address and a Phone No. (We will keep these confidential). Give a name or nickname you want us to use and up to 30 words about yourself, and then we will give each person a box number at SEDA's address and publish your name and "Pen portrait" in the next Bulletin / website (you tell us which). People interested in replying to you write c/o your box number on a stamped envelope and we send it on to you. We will send you a guidence sheet for the scheme when you first register. FUNDRAISING SUCCESS Following the work we did with Brian Roberts-Wray (Fundraising Consultant) a number of grant applications were made during the Autumn. Successes include a donation which has made the purchase of a new photocopier possible - this means that bulletins and all the new leaflets will be produced more easily and at a reduced cost. We have also just had confirmed a grant of £7,000 which will enable us to get our plans for 'Supported Self-Help' into action. We will be training people to run groups and provide one to one support for those who want to work through a programme we are developing. The programme aims to help people to overcome their eating disorder behaviour, learn new ways of managing life and getting their life moving in new ways. This would give support in sessions and at home over an 18 month period. We hope to be running this by next Autumn and will give more details in the next bulletin about the programme and how to register interest in getting onto it. We are also interested to hear from anyone who would like to train as a supporter. Contact me at SEDA to talk about this. The SSH programme and updating/extending our range of leaflets were priorities on our development plan list and we have already done a lot of the background work (in hope) so having the funds to move things forward is exciting. It's also a well deserved reward for those who have put so much work into these ideas - thank you to 'The Bookworms' group, to Anita and to Lyn. Thanks to Brian too for his patience, advice and guidance as we learnt new skills in fundraising. Peter Derbyshire, our new Trustee, is going to work with me on more applications - so watch this space! We hope to fund other groupwork and get counselling and complementary therapies programmes back on our list of options in the future. We are grateful to the Trust who have made the donation. In both cases they have asked to remain anonymous.Tricia 
Sharing I cannot be with you in your pain and I know you cannot share all of what you are suffering, but I want you to know that I care. And if by knowing some part of your journey is eased, then take what I can offer you. And if by sharing some part of your burden is lifted, then let me take what you offer me. And if by praying, some part of your pain finds peace, then let us pray together. And if fears and frustration, anxieties and despair seem to linger too long to bear, remember the fact of who you are - and all that you are a part of - and let your soul rejoice in the truth of being in your Father's love and care. by Deni Newman 
SEDA DROP-IN VENUES1st Friday & 1st Sunday of the month in Street held at SEDA, Strode House, 10 Leigh Road, Street 10.30am ~ 12.30 2nd Friday of the month Taunton opening in March. 3rd Friday of the month in Frome held at Frome Library Meeting Room, Justice Lane, Frome. 10.30am ~ 12.30 4th Wednesday of the month Yeovil held at Marwick Centre, Dampier Street, Yeovil. 7.30pm ~ 9pm
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