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    What counts as disordered eating?
    Anna Jolliff
    • Sep 29, 2021
    • 1 min

    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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    Irritable bowel syndrome and disordered eating recovery
    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...
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    I can't stop thinking about food
    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,...
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    Accepting weight gain in eating disorder recovery
    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
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    Post-pandemic predictions for disordered eating
    Anna Jolliff
    • Jun 26, 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?
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    My disordered eating and diet recovery story
    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!"
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    Tackling alcoholism and bulimia with Faith
    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.”
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    How I feel about my body
    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.
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    One year sober from disordered eating
    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.
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    Are food and body your only hobbies?
    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...
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    Do you lose yourself when there's nothing to do?
    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.
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    Can I recover completely from an eating disorder?
    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...
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    On weight regain and my inner critic
    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...
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    "Fully recovered" from anorexia: a Christian perspective
    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...
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    Bulimia as an expression of trauma with Lindsey
    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...
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    ED recovery as social justice with Kelsey
    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...
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    Food scarcity, sexuality, and disordered eating with Sequoia
    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...
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    Recovery at every size with Hannah
    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...
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    Leigh's victory over bulimia
    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...
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    Working the steps on an eating disorder
    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....
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