Renée Mettes speaks to the experience of watching her mother struggle with an eating disorder, and how she became determined to break the familial cycle by choosing to prioritize her son over her own eating disorder.

Kristina Saffran reflects back on the 15 years since she co-founded Project HEAL, how much Project HEAL has grown, and how her own recovery has impacted her life in unimaginable ways.

Orthorexic behaviors can hide behind health-focused social media trends. Megan Bazzini dives into the harm that such trends have on our mental and physical health.

It’s vital that we identify and recognize that the COVID-19 pandemic is an ongoing traumatic event, even as President Biden and others have declared the pandemic itself “over.” Chris Hill shares resources for recognizing trauma and PTSD, and guidance for how to cope and heal.

Steve Chamberlin reflects on 40 years with an eating disorder and the gendered and cultural barriers that prevented him from getting help.

Sari Meltzer, a clinical therapist, provides an example of how to use Socratic questioning and fact-checking to treat negative thoughts and beliefs.

Joey Lubelfeld shares a poem they wrote about their eating disorder and choosing recovery.

Our National Blog Manager Volunteer, Tara Criscuolo, talks about how tattoos have become an important practice of bodily autonomy, self-expression, and way of reclaiming her power from her eating disorder, parents, and society at large.

The gay community is many wonderful things, but it also has some harmful beauty standards. Guest blogger Micah Bidner speaks to the unrealistic body expectations, his descent into an eating disorder, and then how he learned to accept himself and embrace recovery with the support of his friends, family and treatment team.

Amy Schaugaard shares how motherhood was a primary motivator for her to recover, and how becoming pregnant gave her a brand new appreciation for her body.