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How Parents Can Help Their Child With an Eating Disorder
If your child has an eating disorder, you may feel overwhelmed, scared, or unsure of what to do next. As a parent, you want to help, but eating disorders are complex illnesses that require patience, compassion, and the right kind of support. The good news: recovery is...
What Weight Gain in Recovery Really Means (and Why It’s Not the Enemy)
For so many people navigating eating disorder recovery, weight gain is the part they fear the most. It can feel like the enemy, the thing standing in the way of feeling safe or in control. But the truth is, weight gain in recovery is not the problem—it’s part of the...
How to Handle Setbacks in Recovery
Recovery is not a straight line—it’s a journey with twists, turns, and sometimes a few stumbles along the way. If you’ve experienced a setback in your eating disorder recovery, you are not failing. In fact, setbacks are a normal...
Asking For Help
Asking for Help: The Moment I Knew I Couldn’t Do This Alone By the time I finally entered therapy, I already knew what my eating disorder represented. I had read all the books. I had analyzed myself to death. I understood that my eating disorder was never...
This Is A Test
When Recovery Gets Hard: My Biggest Test Yet There will be many moments in eating disorder recovery when things get incredibly tough. These moments are tests—and yes, you will be tested. So it's important to be prepared for when life throws you a curveball. For...
A Losing Battle
You Will Never Win With an Eating Disorder—Ever Let me be blunt:You will never win with an eating disorder. Not ever. An eating disorder is a war inside your own mind—and it’s one that cannot be won. No matter how thin you...
New Beliefs
You Deserve Recovery—And You Can Recover If you want recovery to stick, there are two things you have to believe: You deserve recovery. You can recover. Here’s the truth though—I didn’t believe either of those when I first started. In the beginning, I wasn’t really...
Just the Way You Are
You Are More Than Enough—Right Here, Right Now Let me say this loud and clear:Where you are is okay. What you've done in the past is okay. And most importantly—WHO YOU ARE is more than okay. Please, stop beating yourself up.Start learning how to...
An Honest Pep Talk
Eating Disorders Can Kill—And That’s the Truth Let’s not sugarcoat it: eating disorders can kill you. It’s not just a figure of speech or an exaggeration. Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness....
The Sentence that Changed My Life
I Knew I Was Struggling With an Eating Disorder—But I Didn’t Think I Deserved Help I knew I was sick.Had known for a while, honestly. I also knew I needed help. But if I’m being real, I didn’t really want it.Didn’t think I deserved it either. If you’re in recovery—or...