What counts as disordered eating?
What counts as disordered eating? In this video, I discuss two ways of identifying disordered eating, including specific thoughts and...
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Anna Jolliff
- Aug 16, 2021
- 1 min
Irritable bowel syndrome and disordered eating recovery
Irritable bowel syndrome and disordered eating feed off of each other, making recovery from either especially difficult. In this video, I...
Anna Jolliff
- Jul 20, 2021
- 1 min
I can't stop thinking about food
"Only eat if you're hungry." For most of my life, that statement felt like a moral imperative. If I ate when my tummy wasn't grumbling,...
Anna Jolliff
- Jul 6, 2021
- 1 min
Accepting weight gain in eating disorder recovery
Barriers I felt to gaining weight, how I found the willingness to do it anyway, and practical tips for making the weight gain process easier
Anna Jolliff
- Jun 25, 2021
- 6 min
Post-pandemic predictions for disordered eating
What will happen to the subclinical eating disorders and ill-informed diets that many of us spent the last year perfecting?
Anna Jolliff
- Jun 22, 2021
- 1 min
My disordered eating and diet recovery story
This is my first YouTube video, and the very first time I get to say "like and subscribe!"
Anna Jolliff
- May 23, 2021
- 8 min
Tackling alcoholism and bulimia with Faith
"I spent a year or two in a constant state of inebriation, besides those moments when I was sober enough to find some food and throw it up.”
Anna Jolliff
- Sep 25, 2020
- 3 min
How I feel about my body
Going shirtless to the gym is my deliberate exercise in being aggressively, pointedly imperfect, and daring others to make it weird.
Anna Jolliff
- Aug 22, 2020
- 4 min
One year sober from disordered eating
September 19th will mark one year since I've tried to lose weight.
Anna Jolliff
- Apr 24, 2020
- 3 min
Are food and body your only hobbies?
Food and body don’t have to be your only hobbies. I pulled this quote from Instagram back in January of 2018. Yesterday, I found it in my...
Anna Jolliff
- Mar 28, 2020
- 3 min
Do you lose yourself when there's nothing to do?
I think most everyone is grappling with who they are minus what they can do.
Anna Jolliff
- Feb 25, 2020
- 4 min
Can I recover completely from an eating disorder?
Today I stepped on the scale at my gym and saw a brand-new number. It was 17 pounds higher than the number I saw in September. It was...
Anna Jolliff
- Jan 31, 2020
- 3 min
On weight regain and my inner critic
Part of me wants to tell you what it has been like to gain weight. The fact that I’m larger now than I was four months ago is fairly...
Anna Jolliff
- Jan 3, 2020
- 8 min
"Fully recovered" from anorexia: a Christian perspective
It’s not like me to begin an interview by talking about myself. Typically, these interviews are a welcome and deliberate break from total...
Anna Jolliff
- Dec 18, 2019
- 6 min
Bulimia as an expression of trauma with Lindsey
Lindsey’s earliest memory is not her own. At least, not really. I typically begin interviews by asking people their earliest memory...
Anna Jolliff
- Dec 11, 2019
- 5 min
ED recovery as social justice with Kelsey
As a child, Kelsey carved a hole in the box spring of her bed. That's where she hid the wrappers, willing the evidence of her appetite to...
Anna Jolliff
- Dec 4, 2019
- 6 min
Food scarcity, sexuality, and disordered eating with Sequoia
Sequoia is objectively cool. I would tell you why, but I don’t need to. Here’s a picture instead. Her story starts like that of many...
Anna Jolliff
- Nov 27, 2019
- 5 min
Recovery at every size with Hannah
When Hannah was 9, she sat on a school bus clutching a stuffed animal. It was a soft little pig. A boy on the bus gave her a sidelong...
Anna Jolliff
- Nov 20, 2019
- 5 min
Leigh's victory over bulimia
Typically, when I think about eating disorders, I focus on the similarities. Rigid rules, preoccupation with food, secret behaviors, body...
Anna Jolliff
- Nov 16, 2019
- 3 min
Working the steps on an eating disorder
I’ve wondered...and wondered...and wondered… about the extent to which recovery from alcoholism mirrors recovery from eating disorders....