
Breaking Stickmas fundraiser for Bodywhys
About the Breaking Stickmas social media challenge
Who doesn't love a good play on words? To make the fundraising for Bodywhys more exciting, we have launched a social media challenge called #breakingstickmas.
We are encouraging people to post a video on social media breaking anything stick-like (breadsticks, actual sticks, pasta sticks, match sticks, carrots, etc. Be as creative or uncreative as you'd like!)
There are a lot of stigmas associated with eating disorders, so feel free to include information about them in your video too, and how they can be broken, if you would like.
After you post the video, we would ask you to use the hashtags:
#breakingstickmas
#mindeverybody
#bodywhys
and please tag us too @mindeverybody and @bodywhys.
After posting, please make a donation here with whatever amount you are comfortable with. More information about what donations are used for can be found below or on the Bodywhys website.
Please note that all donations are welcome- you are not required to submit a video to make a donation :)
About Mind EveryBody
Mind EveryBody is an advocacy group calling for better Eating Disorder services across Ireland.
To date, we have held protests in Dublin, Limerick, and Cork, appeared on Prime Time, lit buildings across Ireland purple to raise awareness that people can recover from eating disorders, and presented a briefing in the Dáil.
Our group is a mix of carers, professionals, and people with lived experience of eating disorders, and we believe the perspectives of many is what will lead to change.
About eating disorders
Eating disorders are not a choice, but a mental illness. They affect individuals of all ages, genders, and body types. Types of eating disorders include ARFID, Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia, Binge Eating Disorder, and Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorder.
Healthcare services in Ireland have to date largely treated eating disorders as a physical illness, while only providing limited mental health supports for sufferers, or education for parents.
Fundraising goals
As part of our goal for Eating Disorders Action Day, we wanted to set up a fundraiser for Bodywhys, the eating disorders association of Ireland, to help fund more support services.
Bodywhys has gone a long way to fill in gaps in healthcare services by providing helplines, education, and support to families and sufferers of eating disorders.
Eating Disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental health illness, and early interventions for both sufferers and parents can go a long way in improving recovery outcomes.
In order to be able to offer more services, Bodywhys needs more funding.
Several ideas of services they would like to offer are:
- Meal coaching webinars (learning techniques to help a loved one with an eating disorder restore their relationship with themselves and with food).
- In-person Maudsley workshops (skills to support recovery, obtaining a better understanding of a loved one with an eating disorder, and learning new communication skills).
- Themed support groups for carers, such as a how to support someone on the autism spectrum who has an eating disorder, someone in the LGBTQ community, etc.
Our goal is to raise €30,000 to help them achieve some of these targets.
Please can you help us reach this goal?
Thank you :)
More about Bodywhys:
The mission of Bodywhys is to ensure support, awareness and understanding of eating disorders amongst the wider community, as well as advocating for the rights and healthcare needs of people affected by eating disorders. More information can be found on their website.
Organiser

Amy Hanley
Organiser
County Dublin
Think Bodywhys
Beneficiary