I first heard the term “Feminist Awakening” listening to Christy Harrison’s podcast Food Psych (Food Psych #122: How Anger Can Help in Diet Recovery and Body Acceptance with Carmen Cool — Christy Harrison…

*This post is part of blog series called Revealing My Road to Recovered. For more information about the series please click here: Revealing My Road to Recovered. By August 2015 something was stirring…

In January 2015, I committed to journaling regularly. By mid-March, I committed to eating disorder recovery. In April, I started weekly sessions with a therapist who specialized in eating disorders. And by July…

Growing up my sense of self was heavily influenced by the world around me. It was confusing because I didn’t feel good about who the world seemed to want me to be, but…

This is admittedly an odd title as I am literally presenting my recovery in a linear fashion, via my daily journal. While the dates in my journal are linear, the content of my…

  April 3, 2015 I had a lot of feelings that I could have drowned in food, but I chose to confront them by talking with Steve. It was hard and uncomfortable, and I…

Trigger Warning: Anti-fat and weight bias. Eating disorder thoughts and behaviors. Anti-fatness is dangerous. Anti-fatness (or fatphobia or weight stigma) is used to discriminate, oppress, denigrate, blame and harm. Weight stigma is so…

Oh how I LOVE my Grandma Martha and MISS her. On March 12, 2014, my paternal Grandmother, Grandma Martha, passed away surrounded by people who love her dearly. My Dad, my Mom, and…

Trigger warning: Internalized fatphobia, talk of eating disorder thoughts and behaviors. On March 25, 2015, I felt good. Feeling good can be just as vulnerable as feeling bad, especially if you’re not use…