Maybe you saw her on America’s Got Talent. Maybe you’ve seen one of her viral videos. Maybe you’ve seen her on Dragon’s Den, or on your favorite morning show, or performing with her a cappella group, Eh440. Or maybe, if you’re lucky, you’ve had Stacey Kay come and speak to your school about body positivity. […]
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Support groups can be a wonderful thing. I spent many an evening sitting on a chair, a floor, a couch, surrounded by people battling the same thing I was. I have always wanted to find a way to run a nutrition group for people with eating disorders, but I haven’t found a good way to […]
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Dear Mrs. Claus, Hi. Normally I write to your husband, with a “hello” for you and the elves thrown in, but this year I decided to write to you directly. You probably won’t remember me, but we met once before. It was during my 25th birthday at Disneyland. Because I have a late-year birthday, the […]
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Recently, one of my Facebook friends issued a challenge to those of us in the non-diet community: Coaches, therapists, dietitians who write about HAES, the non-diet approach, intuitive eating, and the like: I implore you to go through your blog archives and remove the stuff you no longer believe in, like posts promoting weight loss, […]
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Telling someone you love that you have an eating disorder is one of the scariest things you can do. There are so many unknowns in the situation: will they still love me? will they believe me? will they laugh at me? However, hearing that someone you love has an eating disorder is also one of […]
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*Spoiler alert – if you haven’t seen Captain America: Civil War yet, you may want to bookmark this post for later . . . some plot points discussed herein. No, that’s not the title of the next Captain America movie . . . I don’t think. And no, I’m not confusing Captain America for the […]
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The holidays are over. While many of us had a great holiday, others merely survived theirs. For those working on recovery from an eating disorder, spending time around friends and family can be a minefield of triggers. A parent will wax philosophic on the goodness or badness of a specific food. A friend will ask […]
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We all know what life with an eating disorder looks like, more or less. It’s portrayed (with varying degrees of accuracy) in movies, on TV, in books, and all over the internet. Less often, we get glimpses into the recovery process. I think that’s part of what makes recovery so terrifying – we don’t know […]
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If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ll know I love a good Hunger Games reference. I saw Mockingjay: Part 2 this weekend, and it (no surprise) had some useful lessons to learn. (If you’ve neither read the books nor seen the film, some mild spoilers are contained within. Consider yourselves warned!) What […]
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Recovering from an eating disorder is incredibly difficult. It takes a team of professionals: at the very least, an MD, a therapist, and a certified nutritionist or registered dietitian. It usually takes years to achieve full recovery, often with many relapses along the way. Researchers are still working to pinpoint exactly what the key is […]
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