Tag: eating disorders

How (Not) to Feed a Daughter

Liv Spikes

My delight at the ultrasound tech’s declaration, “It’s a girl,” was immediately followed by a heaviness and fear I associated with that specific gender reveal: the food thing. I did not feel this panic a year ago when the sex of my son was announced. Food things were girl things. Read more

Liv Spikes

Liv Spikes writes about her life-- it seems to offer up plenty of material. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Brain, Child Literary Magazine, The Briar Cliff Review, and others.

Fat Tuesday

Emily Nelson

Layla tells us that she was down to 500 calories a day when she saw God. We’re all at Bri’s house, the four of us knee to knee and shivering because her mom turns off the heat at nine. The basement TV is paused in the middle of an episode Read more

Emily Nelson

Emily Nelson is a writer and editor from the Pacific Northwest. Her writing has been featured in The Rumpus, Ayaskala, Drizzle Review, and elsewhere. Currently, she is pursuing an MFA in Fiction at the University of Montana, and is the fiction editor for CutBank Magazine.

Finding Your Inner Groove with Misty Tripoli

Dominique M. Carson

2020/2021 is a difficult time for everyone right now. We are amid the COVID-19 epidemic. It has affected everyone across the globe. However, people are still finding the strength and courage to watch Misty Tripoli and the Body Groove facilitators perform various dance workouts. For most people, especially women, it Read more

Dominique M. Carson

Dominique M. Carson is a journalist, writer, author, researcher, and massage therapist. Her work has been featured in NBC News, Ebony.com, Bleu Magazine, Singersroom.com, Education Update, Soultrain.com, Amsterdam News, just to name a few. She recently published a biography on R&B singer, Jon B. The title of her book is called Jon B: Are You Still Down? Carson's book is now available on Amazon.com & Goodreads.com. For Carson, writing is an intense effort that she continues to take seriously day by day.

Body Image and Me: Accepting Myself Even Though The Dress Doesn’t Fit Anymore

Cathleen Kahn

The dress is navy blue. Navy blue with cream color trim around the neck and armholes. It is a size small. I bought it to wear for an Easter Sunday; I don’t remember the year. The dress is one of the few pieces of clothing in my closet that doesn’t Read more

The Wrong James

Judith Staff

I was about 21 years old when I began studying for a degree. Disinterested in furthering my education, it was not my wish, but my mother convinced me I would be a failure in life if I didn’t study. As I already believed I was a failure, going to university Read more

Judith Staff

Judith Staff’s background is in teaching and early years education. She still teaches occasionally, though now her main focus is in child welfare and safeguarding children. Her work includes delivering training, presenting at conferences, and engaging in collaborative projects with schools around child abuse awareness and sexual violence prevention. She enjoys writing blogs and poetry on topics she feels passionate about. Judith loves running, gym classes and karate. She is married to an art lecturer and they live in Northamptonshire, England with their three free-spirited children, a 12- year-old son, and daughters aged 11 and 9.

Found Wanting: Burning With Anger, The Hidden Truth of Eating Disorders

Christina Larocco

At my childhood best friend Ashley’s house, the pantry was big enough to sit in, and when we were bored, we did just that, eating whatever was around us. The pantry was long and narrow, cool and dark, with hardwood floors obscured by tins of flour and multi-flavored popcorn. It Read more

Christina Larocco

Christina Larocco is a writer and historian based in Philadelphia, where she is the editor-in-chief of a scholarly journal and a prose editor for Cleaver Magazine. Her creative nonfiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Hotel Amerika, Avidly, Footnote, and Weird Sister. She is writing a biography-in-essays of nineteenth-century abolitionist and feminist Martha Schofield.

Ha

Rachelle Cameron

“Ha I ate” I said to Ana “Ha today you did tomorrow will be different just you wait and see” Photo Credit: katie_mccolgan Flickr via Compfight cc Rachelle CameronMy name is Rachelle Cameron, I am 27 years old and have been writing for many years. I have been published in Read more

Rachelle Cameron

My name is Rachelle Cameron, I am 27 years old and have been writing for many years. I have been published in the online journal Typishly.com for my poetry. I am planning to return to school for a psychology degree and to become an eating disorder specialist and open a treatment center.

Solution

Rachelle Cameron

I tell her “not today” I tell her “watch me eat” She chuckles “sure you will feel free to try” I breathe deeply She’s exhausting to fight she knows it Sometimes letting her have her way is the easiest solution to my problems Photo Credit: Dear, max Flickr via Compfight Read more

Rachelle Cameron

My name is Rachelle Cameron, I am 27 years old and have been writing for many years. I have been published in the online journal Typishly.com for my poetry. I am planning to return to school for a psychology degree and to become an eating disorder specialist and open a treatment center.