06/21/2026
If we're going to move the needle within a disordered eating culture, the hardest reality to accept is that recovery isn't a linear fix.
It's a challenging daily commitment to untangeling your worth from the mirror and the scale.
A lot of people confuse “maintaining control” with being healthy; especially when certain behaviours have become normalized or even praised.
Control is an Illusion. Trying to feel safe and in control by shrinking food choices, can often be disordered eating disguised as discipline.
If staying at a certain size or weight requires constant restriction, anxiety about fueling, overexercising, or feeling like you're mentally and physically exhausted, it may be worth asking whether your body is being supported the way it needs.
It's ok to start to question the standards you’ve been trying so hard to live up to.
Sometimes, a "healthier life" looks very different than what we were lead to believe.