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Living with a chronic illness while facing fatphobia from healthcare providers can be a daunting experience, especially for individuals living in larger bodies and especially for individuals in recovery from an eating disorder

Symptoms include eating a large quantity of food in a relatively short amount of time (not including holidays or other “eating events”), as well as feeling a tremendous amount of shame and embarrassment after having binged.

Our society has ingrained certain stereotypes and biases that often influence how we perceive ourselves and others. This is especially evident in matters of racial identity and body image, where white bodies tend to be perceived as ‘pure’, enjoying unearned…

This will be a blog post I try to update regularly as I learn of new eating disorder resources out there. I know something that is often hard for people to find is access to resources and what is available to them!

Intuitive Eating is an evidenced based, mind-body health approach created by two dietitians, Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch in 1995. “It is a weight-neutral model with a validated assessment scale and over 90 studies to date” (Tribole 2017).