After chatting with ya’ll on Instagram (@recovroad) about what content you’d like to see next, so many of you wanted content about ED caretaking. I decided that a Q&A with my mom, who was my main caretaker, supporter, and advocate throughout my recovery, could offer some insight into what it’s like as well as be… Read More Q&A With My Mom (Aka a Recovery Caretaker)
Hello, blog! I wanted to share this free printable meal planner with y’all because, honestly, meal planning can be one of the hardest parts of recovery. Especially after leaving residential and IOP/PHP, I felt like I didn’t have a ton of support and skills to bring recovery into my real, everyday life. And real life… Read More Recovery Meal Planning (With FREE Meal Planning PDF)
The holidays can be a challenging time! Although they can be filled with family, fun, and festivities- they can also be triggering, throw us off of our usual schedules, and be overwhelming. Because of this I’ve created this free, one page holiday coping plan. P.S. This definitely isn’t only for people with eating disorders! Anyone… Read More Free Holiday Coping Plan
Hi, blog :)! After so so many of you downloaded my free recovery journal (available here), I decided to release another journal, but this time it’s a journal geared towards coping with anxiety/anxiety relief. Just like last time, this page will have the seven day plan and link to download it yourself! Each and every… Read More Free 7 Day Anxiety Journal
Food is something people talk about…a lot! Especially while in recovery and/or trying to improve your relationship with food, you’ll likely be on hyper alert about food and diet talk. I know for me it was a bit awkward in early recovery to talk about food because as I was trying to unlearn diet culture… Read More 5 Food Neutral Phrases to Implement Into Your Dialogue Today
A big misunderstanding (and often critique) about the anti-diet community is that it’s anti-health, but this couldn’t be further from the truth! Being anti-diet encourages a more holistic view of health instead of cutting out certain foods and focusing on weight or appearance. While not everyone who is anti-diet struggles with an eating disorder or… Read More Being Anti-Diet isn’t Anti-Health- Here’s Why
Whether you’re in recovery or trying to improve your relationship with your body/food/movement, it can be difficult to gauge if you should be exercising and why you’re actually doing it. This can be even more complex and confusing if you’re starting a new workout/routine and have struggled with disordered thinking/behaviors in the past. As someone… Read More Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Relationship With Exercise
Despite the fact that 30 million people in America will struggle with an eating disorder at some point during their lives, there is still a lot of misinformation and myths surrounding them. I talked to ya’ll on Instagram about this and together we came up with tons of ideas for this article- I am so… Read More Top 10 Myths About Eating Disorders
Hello, blog! Today’s article is going to be a little different and a bit shorter since I am still working on the Coping Skills Guide (Part 2) and planning out some more content, but it is just as important. Before I talk about residential, IOP, PHP, or more coping skills- let’s talk about therapy. All… Read More 10 Questions to Ask Your Therapist
Hello blog! Today I wanted to talk about coping skills: what they are, examples of when to use them, and what a few of my favorites are. This will be part one in at least a two part series! In part two I’m going to dive into more coping skill options as well as how… Read More Coping Skill Guide: Part 1
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