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Are We Ever Fully Recovered? Embracing the In-Between In Eating Disorder Recovery with Mallary Tenore Tarpley
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This week we are diving deep into the world of eating disorders and recovery, and much like all of the work I do here, Mallary Tenore Tarpley is here to help us embrace the gray area between being sick and fully recovered. She's here to normalize living in the in between place when you're trying to heal, and share some things that you may not have known about eating disorders. This topic is hard to talk about without dipping into some potentially triggering topics, so honor yourself and your own journey as you listen, especially if you are in early eating disorder recovery.
Mallary Tenore is an assistant professor of practice at The University of Texas at Austin's School of Journalism and Media and McCombs School of Business, where she teaches writing and reporting courses for undergraduate and graduate students. Mallary specializes in a variety of topics, including longform feature writing, creative nonfiction, solutions journalism and nonprofit journalism.A longtime journalist, Mallary's articles and essays have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Tampa Bay Times, Harvard University’s Nieman Storyboard and more. She also maintains a weekly newsletter, Write at the Edge, where she shares writing tips and best practices. Mallary’s debut nonfiction book, “SLIP: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery,” will be published by Simon & Schuster's Simon Element imprint and is now available for pre-order. The book blends immersive reporting, emerging science and social history around eating disorders alongside Mallary’s own harrowing journey from a childhood with anorexia to her present-day reality as a mother in recovery. While working on the book, Mallary received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to support her reporting and writing.
On this episode we talk about:
- Mallary's experience developing an eating disorder as a child that led her to write this book.
- The most surprising discoveries she made about eating disorders while researching for her book?
- The social history of eating disorders. (And the wild parallels to what's happening today.)
- How anorexia can reduce your brain size, specifically gray matter.
- Things is life that can cause "slips" in recovery.
- How she hopes to redefine how we see slips and eating disorder recovery as a whole.
- The biggest things that are perpetuating eating disorders today.
- Getting treatment for your eating disorder when you don't fit the traditional mold of what we think an eating disorder looks like.
- What she wishes society knew and did differently when it comes to eating disorders.
- So many other important things!
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