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RECOVERY GAVE YOU.

FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

I look back at that little girl and think, if only you knew what was ahead. Years of childhood lost to counting calories, body checking, and being hospitalized far from the people you love. Where do little girls learn to hate themselves, to feel inadequate, to pick apart every detail in the mirror? They are not born that way.

Recovery gave me something I did not think was possible, a sense of being at home in myself. The ability to accept my body, connect with other people, find joy in my life, trust what I know to be true, and live a life I could not have imagined. And now, the most precious gift of all, the ability to grow a human in the body I nearly destroyed.

PEOPLE & OPERATIONS COORDINATOR

Recovery has given me the chance to truly get to know myself, all the little parts that make me, me. It’s given me a sense of safety in my body I didn’t know was possible. It’s opened the door to a life full of awe, wonder, and adventure… a life where I no longer shrink, but instead take up space. I found my voice, and now I use it proudly.

It’s given me the ability to connect deeply and intimately with the people I love, and to experience a kind of love with my husband that feels safe and authentic. It’s helped me see my body not for how it looks, but for everything it does for me. It’s given me the chance to rewrite my path, and now walk alongside others as they find their way home to themselves too.

CREATIVE MANAGER

Recovery gifted me everything. It gave me back the parts of myself my eating disorder took first—my humor, my loud, unfiltered laugh, my curiosity, my sense of play. I’m not in survival mode anymore. I’m hiking mountains, flying with hawks, sitting still, and showing up. I get to think about how I want to live, what I want to give, who I want to be. My world isn’t a tiny snow globe anymore—it’s a wide, scary, exciting expanse where I feel it all.

MARKETING COORDINATOR

I used to believe that I was destined to be unhappy. My emotions constantly felt too much and the pressure of the world was crushing down on me. Once i chose recovery, my eyes were opened up to the opportunities that I had around me and just how loved and accepted I am as my true self.

I have always had a desire to help others, but recovery taught me how to reflect my kindness and optimism upon myself, allowing me to embrace the excitement of everyday life and find joy in the little moments that once passed me by. Recovery gave me my spark back, and life has never been so beautiful.

EAT BREATHE THRIVE CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL

Recovery has given me permission to love myself again, to talk to myself with compassion and kindness. To appreciate my body for all that it does for me, It has taught me that anything is possible, and that when times are tough, you are strong enough to get through them. It has given me freedom. I wish I could rewind time and say to the girl squeezing the teddy in the picture to always hug herself in the same way.

Looking through my photos, I see a life rebuilt through recovery: hundreds of images of me outdoors— running, backcountry skiing, paddling, hiking, and sharing time in nature with people I love. In each one, there is a genuine smile that reflects gratitude for what my body can do, not how it looks.

I am learning self-compassion and gentleness as I grow older, and I carry deep appreciation for the way nourishment and recovery have given me my life back.

The images I’ve chosen bring this full circle—from a little girl outside with her dog, gathering pussy willows in a time before body shame took hold, to the present day: standing strong like a mountain, guided by my values, moving through the forest on skis, leaving tracks of a life fully lived.

This is what recovery has given me.

Recovery gave me something I didn’t even realize I had lost—it gave me me back.

For so long, I looked outside of myself for everything—approval, direction, validation, even a sense of worth. I believed I had to look a certain way, be a certain way, and put everyone else’s needs before my own just to be accepted.

But in recovery, I rediscovered who I am. I learned to trust myself. To listen inward instead of constantly searching outward.

I do grieve the time I lost while I was in my eating disorder. That grief is real. But alongside it is something even more powerful—gratitude. Because through recovery, I found myself again.

And what I discovered is that I am imperfect… and still completely, undeniably amazing.

To put simply, recovery has made it possible for me to dance again- to truly be free in the music and not thinking about how I look or being controlled by my eating disorder to exercise. The joy and happiness I get from dancing is pure and beautiful once more.

EAT BREATHE THRIVE PRACTITIONER

Recovery has given me life.

Unbelievable to my younger self, I am now a mother to two incredible boys, I’m a wife, a sister, daughter, auntie, niece, cousin, friend, yoga teacher, acquaintance and therapist. It is wholly breathtaking to think and to believe what each and every life means. Our lives touches so many and it’s a privilege to be alive in connection with one another and be a sensing, embodied, human being. Life is suffering, learning, joyful and magnificent.