What happens when you’re recovering from an eating disorder and managing a chronic condition? In this special live conversation, Julie and I explore how diet culture preys on both struggles by offering the illusion of certainty through restriction and control—strategies that are incompatible with recovery.
We talk about:
Why food feels especially complicated with chronic illness + ED recovery
How diet culture sells false “fixes” that actually cause more harm
The messy reality of having a human body (and why that’s okay)
Why community is a vital ingredient in healing
How to find a path forward without falling back into dieting
This was the first time I did a “live” on Substack. I knocked my phone over. I talked to the folks in the live chat. I didn’t edit it before it was sent out to you. And, I’m going to leave all of it just like that 😆
