I thought I would lose weight when I trained for a marathon. Wrong.
Category: Eating Disorder Recovery
Dear Daughter
Let’s be real. Most days I’m totally winging it with you. (So is Daddy.) I have no idea what I’m doing, since I didn’t have siblings and never babysat for a human growing up. In fact, I actively avoided being around children. While I may not know what I’m doing, I go full throttle with…
Recovery is hard.
I thought I already knew that, but apparently I needed to learn it all over again. I have a really hard time taking up space, both literal and figurative, in this world. I try not to talk about myself very much, and if I do, I talk fast. I move my grocery cart to the…
How to kill your blog and your recovery in one easy step.
If you want to know the secret to killing off your blog, and perhaps your original reason for blogging, I provide you the one easy step method…
6 Keys to Body Acceptance
Body acceptance is an ongoing journey. I have come a long way on mine, and offer 6 keys to achieving body acceptance.
How to conquer “fear foods”
Are there foods you don’t allow yourself to have because you fear you’ll lose control or feel guilty? This is how you can conquer your fear foods once and for all!
Body acceptance & diet culture – you can’t have both.
As a patient in treatment for anorexia, I had a classic paradox: mistrustful and compliant. Ana takes away the ability to trust anyone except her. She convinced me that my treatment team just wanted me to gain weight, but they didn’t really care about me. I doubted every piece of information they gave me, whether…
Anorexia, recovery, and privilege
Eating disorders do not discriminate, but what about the idea of having privilege to have an ed? Or having privilege in order to recover?
5 ways to parent your child through diet culture
Think fast: your 6 year old’s gym teacher has told your kid that she’ll get fat if she doesn’t run after eating…what do you do?