There is something happening right now in the health and wellness space that is being framed as a breakthrough, a solution, almost a miracle and yet beneath that surface, there is a much more complex and, in many cases, concerning reality that we are not speaking about nearly enough, especially not in the context of mental health and eating disorder development. Let’s start by understanding what we’re actually talking about. GLP-1 medications, such as Ozempic, belong to a class of drugs...

There is something I see over and over again in eating disorder recovery, and it’s not a lack of knowledge, it’s not a lack of discipline, and it’s not even a lack of wanting to get better, it’s something much more subtle but also much more powerful, and that is the fact that you are still waiting . You are waiting to feel ready, waiting for the fear to calm down, waiting for the moment where it finally feels like you can do it without everything in you resisting it, and in the meantime...

There is a reality in eating disorder recovery that is incredibly confronting to face, and yet it comes up over and over again in my work with clients. Sometimes, the very thing people praise you for… is the exact thing that is slowly destroying you. From the outside, it can look like success. Discipline. Control. Beauty. “Health.” But what people don’t see — and what makes this so painful — is that behind that image, there is often someone who is struggling every single day just to hold it...