Writing & Reflections

Words on the
journey home.

Thoughts on nervous system regulation, healing your relationship with food and body, and building a life that feels like yours.

Not Danger, Just Sensation: Navigating Old Patterns of Control in Recovery

A quiet decision, made in the middle of discomfort, to stay. A personal reflection on what it means to recognise a familiar pathway — and choose differently.

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What Is a Binge-Purge Episode Reenacting?

What if the behaviour itself is a kind of communication? What if it's not about food — but about something much deeper trying to be felt, processed, or understood?

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The Emotional Spectrum: How Emotions Are Like Colours

What if all emotional states exist like invisible wavelengths — present all the time — and what we experience depends on what we're tuned into?

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Recovery on Rest Days: Navigating Illness Without Losing Ground

Illness can shake the fragile routines we've built and stir old urges. Being sick isn't proof that you've failed — it's simply another moment where recovery skills get to mature.

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Avoidant, but Aware of It — Finding Connection Without Losing Yourself

What happens when you've healed your addictions, but relationships still feel impossible? On avoidant attachment, awareness, and the courage it takes to move toward connection.

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Learning to Trust Again: Food, Feelings, and the Space In Between

Recovery is a process of unlearning control and re-learning trust — with food, with our emotions, and with ourselves. It's not linear. But it's real.

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Hypothalamic Amenorrhea and Eating Disorders with Cynthia Donovan

Hypothalamic Amenorrhea and Eating Disorders with Cynthia Donovan

A conversation about HA, the missing period, and what recovery really requires from the body.

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Contemplative Prayer and God in Eating Disorder Recovery

Contemplative Prayer and God in Eating Disorder Recovery

God may not be a comfortable subject for most people to discuss in their healing journeys. Take what resonates and leave the rest.

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I Started A Recovery Podcast!

I Started A Recovery Podcast!

Getting curious about eating disorder recovery is one of my favourite things to do. So I started a podcast called Curious About Recovery.

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Relationships and Eating Disorders

Relationships and Eating Disorders

There seems to be a direct relationship between the chaos around food and the chaos in our relationships. The two are rarely separate.

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Drop into the Body to be Free of its Bondage

Drop into the Body to be Free of its Bondage

We spend so much time trying to run away from our physical selves. What if the invitation is to stop running from the body — and to drop into it instead?

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Relapse in Recovery — How to Bounce Back

Relapse in Recovery — How to Bounce Back

A setback doesn't mean you have failed. Compassionate, practical thoughts to help you move through this space and back on track.

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Beauty is Connection

Beauty is Connection

Not one person I asked defined beauty as physical appearance. They all described the character of a person.

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Gauge for Your Recovery — The Traffic Light Model

Gauge for Your Recovery — The Traffic Light Model

A simple, practical tool to help you understand where you are in your recovery journey — and what kind of support you need right now.

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Keep it Simple, Stay Present, Be Consistent

Keep it Simple, Stay Present, Be Consistent

Three words I carry with me. Already I find myself feeling and doing better than I ever have before — and it started with simplicity and presence.

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