Latest / All Bodies. All Foods.
72. The "Middle Place" of Recovery: Embracing Progress Over Perfection with Mallary Tenore Tarpley
What if recovery isn’t about being perfectly healed, but about learning to live – and grow – in the messy, in-between spaces? In this heartfelt episode, accomplished journalist and author Mallary Tenore Tarpley shares the wisdom of “The Middle Place”, a compassionate framework for understanding eating disorder recovery as an imperfect and ongoing process. Drawing from her memoir SLIP: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery, Mallary takes us through her recovery from childhood to motherhood, offering vulnerable reflections on grief, perfectionism, relapse, and self-discovery. Her…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.