Kyla Fox
Clinical Therapist & Founder of The Centre
Kyla Fox has established herself as a visionary and innovator, when it comes to re-framing the way Canadians think about and treat eating disorders. As someone who struggled herself with an eating disorder, Fox identified care gaps and fundamental flaws in the treatment and recovery approach. With such deep and varied experience in the field, Kyla is regularly called on by Canada’s top media outlets as a special commentator on a broad list of topics, including eating disorders, self-esteem, women’s health, body image, pregnancy and body confidence and more.
Talk Title:
Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating in Mid-life: How Perimenopause and Postmenopausal Women are Struggling More than Ever Before
Synopsis:
Eating disorders have long since been thought of as illnesses that occur in adolescence—but there is an uprise in the number of women struggling with eating disorders and disordered eating in midlife.
As women enter perimenopause and menopause, rates of disordered eating are surging. This talk will open up about why that is, as well as speak to the ways that longstanding dieting and a preoccupation with food and the body really are the stepping stones for the development of eating disorders in this later phase of life. Though often a topic that is secretive and silenced,
Kyla always aims to shed light on what we’re often afraid to talk about.
