Eating Disorder Recovery as a Queer Woman Grace Patterson of Project HEAL joins us to discuss her own recovery experience as a queer woman who couldn’t afford treatment. She’ll also explore lessons from her own recovery and how she now works with people in...
In recent years, an increasing body of research has shown that eating disorders are disproportionately common in the LGBTQIA community. For instance, a 2018 report from The Trevor Project, the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA), and Reasons Eating Disorder...
So often, the stigmas surrounding eating disorders are attributed to cisgender, white, female populations when in reality, eating disorders are not bound to race, gender or age. Considering that one study identified that “trans individuals have nearly 5 times the...
