When I was growing up, I had no idea what an eating disorder was. My family didn’t either. Me and my family were extremely focused on school, holidays, and everyday...
Have you ever felt like the world around you was shaping how you saw yourself? For many of us, these influences go unnoticed until they start impacting our well-being. Eating...
When I first became sick with my eating disorder, I was 11 years old. I didn’t choose to get sick because eating disorders are never a choice, but it was...
I’ve been struggling with these thoughts for years, never fully connecting any of them to something dangerous until I started noticing changes in my appearance in my early 20s. Even...
I knew these words before I ever remember hearing them spoken to me. They were lovingly repeated to me by my mother throughout my childhood and, as an individual adopted...
Blood, sweat, and tears. That’s what it takes to become a champion, right? And then what? After you push yourself until you drop, after you win, after you abuse your...
Recovery doesn’t just happen. It’s also not some cliché buzzword tossed around to “inspire” you. Recovery is real. It’s not a luck-of-the-draw deal where you put your name in a...
If you ask my friends in NYC to describe me, you’ll be painted a picture of a boss lady taking on the city as a full-time professor, writer, and consultant,...
The focus in the eating disorders field is usually on diagnoses, symptoms, and related impairment. There has been little research, or even discussion, about negative traits that were present during...
When I began my recovery from my Eating Disorder (ED), Anorexia Nervosa (AN), I had a lot of momentum. I was sprinting towards a “recovery finish line” that I had...
