For a long time, I used to wish that I had never developed an eating disorder. I felt angry, pathologized and stuck. I used to imagine how things might have been different for me if my family was different, if I weren’t so driven or if I wasn’t a woman.  As I began to understand myself more clearly, I accepted that the development of the eating disorder was part of ... Read More

My name is Marissa and I am fully recovered from an eating disorder. But I wasn’t always this way. I have been dancing ever since I was three years old, I started competition dance when I was in fifth grade and have had a love for dance since I started. So, the summer before I started my first year of high school, I didn’t want to go back to dance ... Read More

It seems strange looking back, but I remember seeing a documentary on TV about eating disorders and thinking "how strange?". I couldn’t understand why someone would do that. I guess you could say that I was more than a little naive. My name is Jack and I suffered with Bulimia Nervosa for over 3 years. Men do suffer with eating disorders, I am living proof. Looking around in the media ... Read More