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Finding an Identity Outside of Health & Fitness: Why It's Important to Have a Life Outside
Picture disclaimer: these are blue contacts, just having some fun!! Brown-eye crew for life :) Where to begin on this one... Most of my...
My (Current) Favorite Snacks!
As an avid snack enthusiast, I have an obsession with between-meal foodie finds. Three meals a day simply doesn't cut it for me. I spent...
How Intuitive Eating Saved My Life
When I first transitioned from a life in "recovery" to a lifestyle focused on health and fitness, I was dead set on eating one way and...
Vanilla Protein Waffles Recipe
You know how they always say "moms know best"? That's true, but what about dads? Years ago my dad taught me the secret to fluffy waffles,...
What's On My Mind: My Experience With Exercise Restriction and Recovery
I loooooove Instagram. I love how may relationships it has allowed me to have and how many drool-worthy pictures of food I get to see...
Why I'm Strong for Letting Go: Vacation Edition
I'm sure you've heard this before, but I'll remind you again. When you're suffering from your eating disorder, so is everyone around you....
Accepting Your New Body: How to Deal With Weight-Restoration
One of the biggest challenges of weight restoring, besides the actual weight gain, is accepting your new body. Acceptance in ED recovery...
The End of Miss America
Imagine a world where we never cared to attach faces to names, to stories, to accomplishments. Where an obsessive need for physical...
How I Hydrate
**I mention a few products in this post but am not sponsored by any of them. I’ll link each one at the end!** I’ve never had the greatest...
Less is More, Even in the Gym
Less is more. I didn’t always buy into that statement. But now I do. In just one short month, my relationship with exercise transcended...
Tips for Better Writing
To my fellow writers and aspiring writers alike, here are a couple of tips that I’ve found to improve my writing! I’m not a professional...
some writing because i do that too??
I tend to see life where people are absent. Just this afternoon I was driving down a narrow, forest-ridden winding road. With each turn...
Plant-Based Protein: Tips and Tricks
Three. That’s how many protein bars I used to eat a day. Three! Two years ago, I was terribly misinformed. I didn’t challenge the...
closer through distance: how i grew more accepting toward my body by moving away from it
4:15 pm. My reflection in the basement bathroom mirror. Phone up, camera open. A drop of sweat trickles down my forehead, navigating the...
What's the Word #3: Anxiety
When I was a sophomore in high school, not only was I dying from an eating disorder, I was also diagnosed with social anxiety and major...
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