Supporting someone in recovery from an eating disorder can be hard—especially when you deeply care and just want to say the “right” thing. But even well-intentioned comments can feel triggering, dismissive, or hurtful to someone who is working hard to heal their relationship with food, their body...

In recovery, one of the most powerful turning points is the moment we begin to reconnect with ourselves—not as someone to fix, but as someone worth knowing. Yet for many, this kind of self-attunement feels selfish, indulgent, or even unsafe. Especially for those who have spent years focusing on...

We often think of recovery as something linear. Step-by-step. Measurable. A clear path forward. And yet, so many of the people I’ve worked with over the years have found themselves saying: “Why does it feel like I’m getting worse?”“Why am I crying more now than I ever did before?”“I’m eating again...

When someone enters eating disorder treatment, the initial focus often falls on food: what’s being eaten, what’s not, how much, how often. And that’s understandable—nutritional stabilization is essential. But food is only one piece of the puzzle. Over the past 20+ years, I’ve sat with hundreds of...