Due to our cultural fixation with “clean eating”, we often praise folks grappling with life-threatening eating disorders for their “discipline” and commitment to wellness. In this latest blog post, Jason Wood boldly shares his struggles with orthorexia and his difficulty finding treatment as a male with an illness completely unrecognized by his clinicians. He furthermore details how the shame he felt as a gay man directly translated into feeling a need to suppress his pain and appear more “masculine”. We are so grateful to Jason for sharing his powerful story.

A beautiful and heart-wrenching look at one woman’s struggle with her body and her eating disorder. As a first-generation Jamaican woman who has recovered from an eating disorder, Alyssa Mullings has crafted a wonderfully layered narrative about a young girl who joins an online chat group that supports people engaging with their eating disorders. Watch the video and read our Q&A with Alyssa afterwards!