05/18/2026
This week’s blog is a deeply personal one.
Drawing from my doctoral research with women living with long term “anorexia nervosa,” I explore the emotional reality behind the diagnosis and the powerful role language, validation, and psychological safety can play in healing.
I also share 10 things I believe everyone should understand about long term eating disorders and the lived experience behind them.
Because sometimes the deepest pain is not feeling heard.
A conversation about eating disorders, language, psychological safety, and the lived experience behind the diagnosis.Over the past several years, I immersed myself in thousands of research studies on eating disorders, mortality, trauma, stigma, neuroscience, treatment outcomes, communication, and lo...