Body neutrality affirmations help you continually shift your inner dialogue and language while you work through healing. Here are some affirmations to start with.

After struggling with anorexia and experiencing amenorrhea, Dr. Nicole’ Felton was thrilled when she learned that she was pregnant with triplets. But excitement turned to heartbreak when Dr. Nicole’ and her husband lost a triplet in utero and then watched their two remaining triplets, micro preemies born at 26 weeks, struggle to process and break down food.

For so long, Lily Pierce’s life revolved solely around her eating disorder. But, eventually, people in her life intervened. Now, Lily is an artist; she is not her eating disorder.

While in treatment, Victoria Almazán gathered the importance of things such as eating three meals a day and challenging disordered thoughts. But, she did not fully embrace recovery until she viewed treatment through an intersectional lens and reclaimed her Latinidad.

Eating disorders and trauma are closely related—one often follows the other as humans work to cope with pain. Here’s what you need to know about the two and how they function together.

Hannah Lazerowitz realized that often her relationships with food and romance were entangled. Because she couldn’t control how men felt about her, she’d again start to regulate her food intake when feelings of inadequacy arose. But just as she’d needed to learn how to heal from anorexia, she now needed to learn how to heal from heartbreak.

From accepting that she needed treatment for her eating disorder to taking a bite of her meal, Catherine Comes has used the idea of doing the next right thing to make both big and small decisions.

Body checking is more than just a buzzy phrase—it’s a dangerous habit that you may not even realize you’re doing. Find out what it is and how to ditch it.

One of River Chew’s core beliefs about recovery is that healing happens in relationships. By connecting with others and building relationships, River believes we start to gather evidence that it can be safe to trust others. Slowly but surely, we can forge a sense of safety in our lives, so that we no longer need to use food, eating, and exercise to try and feel safe or in control.

It can be hard to know the differences that dictate disordered eating vs eating disorder. While there are some similarities, the two have clear differences that are important to understand.

After many years lost to a disordered relationship with exercise, Ally Rae Pesta found peace on a yoga mat. Now, a yoga teacher, run coach, and recovery coach, Ally helps others ground themselves in five key principles to reclaim their relationship with movement.

When this week’s blog author was struggling with an eating disorder, they didn’t see themself depicted in news stories and movies about other people who were similarly struggling. But as they realize now, their identities don’t fall within the (harmful) SWAG stereotype — skinny, white, affluent girl — that dominates the narrative.

If you’re looking to add some eating disorder books to your queue, here are the ones that came highly recommended by your peers.

As Lexie Manion knows well, you can’t self-love your way out of childhood trauma and its lasting effects (like eating disorders). Physical and emotional safety must come first.

While we love a good TikTok or viral trend, we’re also exhausted. This is especially true for those of us suffering from disordered eating or eating or body image disorders. So, should you delete social media?

With 10+ years of recovery – and 8 years of “loud recovery” – under her belt, Project HEAL Volunteer Blog Manager, Tara Criscuolo, speaks a lot differently about eating disorders, food, movement, and bodies than she used to.

Growing up in a mixed-ethnicity household brought intertwined racist and fatphobic experiences that many of Elizabeth Starbuck’s peers didn’t have to face. Then, when she began dating, the theme of body shame continued as her partner struggled with his relationship with his own body.

Learn more about Eating Disorders Awareness Week (EDAW), take part and better understand the many nuances of eating disorders and disordered eating.

As a fat, Black woman who battled the dark depths of Binge Eating Disorder, Leslie Jordan Garcia knows firsthand how important representation is in the healing journey. In this blog, Leslie dives into the stark stats demonstrating the lack of representation, reasons why representation is so important, bits of her personal story and those of her clients, and strategies for moving forward.

After years of yo-yo dieting, negative body image and chronic illness, Ivy Felicia discovered holistic wellness. She met a doctor that actually treated her as a whole person, encouraging Ivy to explore her mental and emotional well-being, sleep, spiritual practices, self-care regimen, and more.