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BYU alumna shares empowering message on eating disorders

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Eating Disorder Awareness Week aims to bring awareness to the issue of eating disorders and to give students needed tools by providing a variety of trainings and events.

This year’s events included a booth in the Wilkinson Student Center, keynote speaker Hayley Smith, a Q&A panel aimed to help friends and family of those struggling with eating disorders, and an intuitive eating workshop.

BYU Women’s Services and Resources has been organizing this event for a number of years.

According to Annie Dye, nutrition and wellness specialist at Women’s Services and Resources, it is always a challenge to find keynote speakers that can appeal to a larger audience.

“Every year it is an interesting challenge of helping everyone be interested in eating disorders, even if they don’t have a personal experience with it,” Dye said. “Because of this, we look to find people like Hayley who have a personal story, as well as something else like her refugee work, so that it can help draw in more of a general crowd because everyone needs to know about this.”

Smith spoke about her personal struggles with bulimia, as well as her work starting her non-profit organization — Lifting Hands International — that helps refugees.

Smith developed bulimia during her sophomore year at BYU. At first, Smith felt like she was on top of the world.

“At first it was an amazing experience. It was like magic. I had never felt something so good,” Smith said. “I had this dark secret that no one understood, so whenever I said something dumb, I would just think about my dark secret, my best friend who made me feel really good.”


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