Certain times of year can feel especially difficult, particularly for people with lived experience of eating disorders or disordered eating. Changes in light, routine, stress levels, and emotional demands can quietly intensify struggles around food, body image, control, and coping. If this season feels harder than expected, there is nothing wrong with you. These responses make sense. Why This Time of Year Can Be Challenging for Eating Disorder Recovery Disrupted routines and

I get asked a lot of questions about when I started running, how I started, why I started. The truth is, I don’t remember a time in my life when I didn’t run. I do remember the time when I couldn’t run and when it was taken away from me though. Taken away from me because of my eating disorder. A lot of things in my life were taken away from me because of my eating disorder, and I didn’t realize until years later of being broken from under it how much it had inhabited me from

Body image and eating disorders are tough issues on their own, and they are often misunderstood. Yet, within the LGBTQ community, and particularly among gay youth and gay men, they are both common and deeply tied to issues of identity, belonging, and self-worth. Research consistently shows that gay and bisexual males experience higher rates of body dissatisfaction, restrictive eating, and compulsive exercise than their heterosexual peers. These struggles are not simply about