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!

Project HEAL Ambassador Ayanna opens up about her recovery journey. Ayanna is a recovery warrior and working hard every day to maintain her recovery. Her bravery in writing about why she chooses recovery every day can move us all towards a space of healing.

In honor of BIPOC Mental Health Month, Project HEAL’s CEO reflects back on a year of learning and action following our pledges in the summer of 2020 to do better for the Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) in the eating disorder community. Here, Rebecca “shows our receipts” so that we may remain accountable for the work we promised to do and continue to do.

Through Equipped to HEAL, Equip will be providing free treatment to at least five Project HEAL beneficiaries per year whose family is low-income or facing extenuating financial circumstances; experiencing medical or social discrimination related to their identity or appearance; and don’t currently have quality eating disorder treatment options through an insurance provider.

For me, Pride means belonging to a community, it means creating more space for healing, and it means bravely and openly being myself.

At Project HEAL, Pride isn't an exclusive celebration just for people who belong to the LGBTQ+ community. The simple fact is that the eating disorder recovery community includes a lot of LGBTQ+ people and we have to make the recovery community safer for them.

Lindsey Hall gets vulnerable in her latest, beautifully written blog post as she shares about her first queer love and how that exacerbated her eating disorder.

Project HEAL is hosting a Pride Week on Instagram Live! We’ll be joined by 8 magical individuals for 7 incredible conversations amplifying the LGBTQ+ voices in the eating disorder community. Each Live is a fundraiser for our LGBTQ+ Treatment Equity Project. We hope you’ll tune in!

Nica Selvaggio is a Chicago-born non-binary and queer human who finds healing writing about the things that often go unspoken. Trauma. Grief. Sexuality. Addiction. Adoption. Eating Disorders. Race. Gender. Identity. Power. Nica’s deepest hope in sharing their writing is to create safe spaces to explore the darkness that resides within us all, thereby igniting the light found in connectedness.

In this blog post, our new Development & Marketing Manager writes about how their experience of healing from their eating disorder mirrors the core values of the LGBTQ+ Pride movement.

Eating disorder therapy intern, plus-size ballerina, and social media maven Colleen Werner, reflects on 4 years with the Project HEAL Team!

Haley Albright Johnston met Rebecca Jane Leung in 2016 when they both attended the same PHP program in NYC (Haley’s treatment was sponsored by Project HEAL). Rebecca is based in Hong Kong and is now an active voice in the eating disorder recovery community on Youtube. The two sat down to discuss the path to recovery and the unexpected lessons learned along the way.

Did you know May is Mental Health Awareness Month? Check in with yourself this week with these strategies on how you can break through negative body-image noise.

Amira walks us through her current role as the mother of a teen with an eating disorder, and Sara writes on what being a young mother with an eating disorder may mean for her daughter.

Thirteen years ago, then-teenagers Liana Rosenman and Kristina Saffran got an incredible gift for their May 4 and May 8 birthdays (respectively). They received the 501(c)3 certificate of incorporation for their own nonprofit.

“Let me take you on a journey… One that sheds the skin of my past and embodies the person I am today.” - Demi Lovato

For Project HEAL co-founder Liana Rosenman’s 30th birthday, she writes a deeply honest personal essay about her story and her recovery.

This 5-part series brought attention to the many intersections related to eating disorders, barriers to treatment, and access to recovery.In case you missed them live, we've linked to each conversation on our Instagram here.

As we kick off National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, we’re excited to highlight one of our partners, Undone Beauty, and the incredible work they’re doing to help more people with eating disorders access treatment.

We are thrilled to announce that Project HEAL's Barriers to Treatment Access Study, in partnership with EAT Lab at the University of Louisville, has received a generous grant from NEDA's Feeding Hope Fund for Clinical Research.

As a Black, 29-year-old queer woman, Sam struggled with bulimia for over a decade while her doctors ignored the red flags, prescribed dangerous diets, and didn’t take her seriously when she directly asked for their help.

We are so excited to share the latest update on our partnership with Undone Beauty! As we announced in August, we are collaborating with Undone Beauty to raise awareness and funds for eating disorder treatment.