Hi! We’re Cinni and Flower, the people who run EnsureAndAssure, these accounts are our personal project dedicated to spreading awareness about eating disorders, and more specifically severe and lifelong eating disorders/struggles.

I (Cinni) am physically disabled and Flower is my fiancé and full time carer. We both have had eating disorders/issues for most of our life, with Flower having Binge Eating Disorder and Cinni (me!!) having Anorexia Nervosa (and both of us having suspected Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder), technically the diagnosis is written down as 'Severe Eating Disorder' but the specific eating disorder is Anorexia Nervosa.

Due to being disabled and having more expenses than the average person (but only barely surviving off of benefits due to how little they give us) such as a minimum of £400 per month on medication that can't be gotten on the NHS (for seizures and to allow me to be able to eat without excruciating pain and debilitating nausea), travel to appointments, etc, disability aids, special dietary needs, etc, it's extremely difficult to get by, and I often struggle with feeling like I don't deserve to eat because the money could be more usefully spent on other things, especially since I grew up struggling with money too, however, due to my moral OCD, I feel too bad that anyone might send me money and think I'm wasting it, so a rule we have for these accounts is any donations will go to things to do with the account! Such as food, days out, trying new things, better content, etc! But If you guys want to send us any physical gifts, we do have a throne wishlist too! (or you can always let us know if you want the money to go towards something)

Any donations we get really help, big or small, and we love you guys so much and appreciate you supporting us in any way, even if it's just by liking or sharing our content/pages/etc, your donations help us be able to eat, create content, try new things, find myself again, and worry less about money from day-to-day.

We made EnsureAndAssure to spread awareness and help ourselves by giving us a reason/motivation to take care of ourselves more and live more, rather than just surviving. The accounts are mainly ran by me, Cinni, and were mainly my idea. I wanted to spread awareness about eating disorders, lifelong eating disorders/struggles, severe eating disorders, and life with them, etc, because of the pure amount of ignorance and lack of information/awareness about them out there, and not just that, the stigma around eating disorders and talking about them. Talking about struggling and being sick should not be a taboo subject that people get shamed for! I'm sick of learning being treated like a plague and eating disorders being treated like 'he who shall not be named', it's so upsetting to me. I've experienced so much ignorance in my life, even from MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS! At one point I had to make a sign to put on my hospital room door stating I was Anorexic, just to try and get staff to stop being so ignorant and making me more unwell. Sick people should not have to do that, and that is why EnsureAndAssure exists.

Thank you so much for reading this, and please consider sharing this if you cannot donate <3