I am often asked if true recovery from an eating disorder is real. Secondly, how did I do it? I am going to break it down with candor, while trying to economize my words. If you have followed me [...]

Self-care, healthy coping, and loving yourself, can all be interchangeable. Which verbiage appeals to you most? In this blog, we will look at the art of caring for oneself through a couple of [...]

I am not surprised that when I asked over Facebook what people would like my next blog to address, overcoming urges and even managing through the aftermath, was the top choice. Urges are often [...]

In July, we celebrate Independence Day. How appropriate that it is also the month I said “YES” to recovery 15 years ago. But first, my eating disorder had to knock me off my feet, break my heart, [...]

Here is a slippery slope I see over and over again with our girls: Vegan > Orthorexia > Anorexia. Before I get into this, please know I believe that there are all different kinds of ways to eat- [...]

Recovery.  Even the word itself used to make me cringe. I had the…Thanks, but no thanks mentality. Recovering from my eating disorder felt like such a huge feat and utterly impossible. I knew it [...]

We all have a garden in our hearts, and we get to decide what grows and what goes. Pain is certainly inevitable and part of our human experience. Yet, misery is a choice. When we cannot forgive, [...]

Could “IT” be your mind megaphone? Yep! Feeling stuck happens. You try to do things differently, but end up back in the same place. It can be so helpful to understand a certain chain reaction [...]

My sweetheart, Don, met me a little over a year into my eating disorder recovery. He helped take my recovery (without even knowing it or understanding eating disorders) to a whole new level [...]

When it comes to food and body, many people can go into extremes in an attempt to deal with the array of challenging emotions (which makes you feel physically heavier – this is fact!). Stress [...]