This week on Wellbeing we are talking with Bonita Norris about her journey with bulimia. In 2010, at the age of 22, Bonita was the youngest British woman to have climbed Mount Everest, but it is her bulimia that she suffered through her teen years that we will be talking about today. She touches on her bulimia in her 2017 book "The Girl Who Climbed Everest" and as we will talk about in this episode, her bulimia was a mountain in itself.

Bonita talks about her journey climbing Mount Everest, her book "The Girl Who Climbed Everest", her teenage years when she went through bulimia, how mental health is impacted by bulimia, how Mount Everest played a role in her finding her self again, what brings on bulimia, how the media in the 2010s approached Bonita's eating disorder, how family and friends can talk to those with bulimia about the condition, what made Bonita get help with her bulimia, and her strategies in making sure doesn't relapse.

"I think I met myself on the top of some of the mountains I have climbed in the sense there is so much shame when you have an eating disorder and your going through it and you can't tell anyone...I think the mountains are just such a great teacher and they do strip everything back." - Bonita Norris on this episode of Wellbeing

Tune in next week when we begin a 12-part series on bipolar disorder.

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