On Your Mark...

In my experience, this term is as just as much a part of the freshman year experience as the harder coursework and bad roommate. I started hearing 'freshman 15' talked about in high school when my friends would ask if we had seen Angelina's* latest post on Instagram [usually we all had]. Someone in the group would then say something along the lines of 'she really did gain that 15 didn't she?' or 'boy did she get thick'. This stuck with me more than I realized. In fact, it bec

Food: this is the part of an eating disorder (will refer to as ED) that most people are more familiar with. Only, in my experience, I have found that the knowledge stops right about at the question “oh so you don’t/didn’t eat?” The approach to eating varies greatly for each person and it is impossible to talk about every experience- especially to start out- so I will focus on mine for now! I want to preface with saying that there is not one reason an ED forms. I am still comi

Alright as promised, let's begin the deep dive into why and how an eating disorder. Keep in mind, eating disorders are a bit dense so it'll take a sec for the full picture to develop. And when it does, if you could show me that picture I'd super appreciate it! Okay, so... not sure if you heard but there was a pandemic that happened! For me, I was in senior year of high school at the onset of the world shutting down and had no idea how that would impact my life to present day.