When weight loss is framed as self-improvement or empowerment, it can blur important boundaries. For many people healing from ...

Nine years ago, a book based on this blog felt like it was going to be an easy project. A month ago, the book was finally published, in a form that bore practically no relationship to where I’d ...

I can’t remember the day that I decided to start starving myself. I can’t remember if it was a particular day, specific event or a mounting of occurrences that spurred me into an eating disorder. Like ...

When Mallary Tenore Tarpley was 11 years old, her mother died from breast cancer. Her father, who was reeling from his wife's death and at a loss to guide his daughter through puberty, gave Tarpley a ...

The last thing Chevese Turner needed was medication to help her lose weight. Twenty years into recovery from binge eating disorder and atypical anorexia, she was done trying to whittle her physique ...