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Aimee L. Healthy Living Professional

San Francisco, California
Blog: http://www.eatingdisordersblogs.com/life_after_recovery/
Aimee Liu here. I'm the author of GAINING: THE TRUTH ABOUT LIFE AFTER EATING DISORDERS and (many years ago) of SOLITAIRE, America's first memoir of anorexia nervosa I teach creative writing in the MFA program of Goddard College in Port Townsend, WA, and am also a novelist, mother, wife, and... Full Bio
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SHIFTING GEARS by Aimee L. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders Last week, as I listened to commencement ceremonies at Goddard College, where I teach creative writing, I was reminded that a healthy, fulfilling life is full of difficu ... Read on »
To think I could have been dead... by Aimee L. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders I just received a fantastic update from one of the contributors to Restoring Our Bodies, Reclaiming Our Lives.  Liana was born in Estonia and received treatment for her ... Read on »
From Fruit Flies To Anorexia by Aimee L. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders You never know what you'll get to be grateful for.  That's a refrain I hear all the time from my best friend, who's lived for more than twenty years with non-Hodgkin ... Read on »
Speak Out About Recovery by Aimee L. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders This just in!   NORMAL in Schools , a non-profit dedicated to education on eating disorders is seeking volunteers to participate in an online educational campaign about ea ... Read on »
University of California - UC Newsroom | Does eating give you pleasure or make you anxious? by Aimee L. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders Perhaps the most puzzling symptom of anorexia nervosa -- a disorder that tends to occur in young women -- is the refusal to eat, resulting in extreme weight loss. While ... Read on »
The Stigma of Eating Disorders by Aimee L. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders Hats off to Margarita Tartakovsky, MS, for her article on PsychCentral: I could not agree more with her statement: "Stigma appears in all different shades ... Read on »
How we teach our kids by Aimee L. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders   I just received a note via the ED Activist Network on Facebook from Matt Wetsel, who's starting a blog about eating disorders.  His first post is an absolutely hea ... Read on »
Read our full FaceBook interview on recovery by Aimee L. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders   My live FaceBook interview on Thursday was great fun and thought provoking. Now EatingDisordersBlogs.com has posted the entire interview with a permanent link: ... Read on »
PARTICIPATE IN A STUDY OF RECOVERY! by Aimee L. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders First of all, I want to thank everyone, from the contributors of letters and sidebars, all the way through to the magnificent staff of the Academy for Eating Disorders - ... Read on »
Food for Recovery Thought in the New York Times by Aimee L. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders Tomorrow is the official publication date of Restoring Our Bodies, Reclaiming Our Lives , and as luck would have it, I'm quoted in an Article in the New York Times to ... Read on »
Live Facebook Interview Series for Eating Disorder Support, May 5th, 5p PACIFIC TIME by Aimee L. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders Do you have questions about the eating disorder recovery process and life after an eating disorder? If so, please join me, Melanie Aldis Figaro, and Aimee Liu, Aut ... Read on »
Wise Minds by Aimee L. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders We now know that eating disorders are biologically based mental illnesses. We know that DNA determines who’s likely to develop an eating disorder and who’s not. And we k ... Read on »
Save 30% on Restoring Our Bodies, Reclaiming Our Lives by Aimee L. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders Attention readers! To celebrate the publication of our new book, RESTORING OUR BODIES, RECLAIMING OUR LIVES , Shambhala Press is offering you a 30% discount if you ... Read on »
Recovering Blind by Aimee L. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders Today, another teaser for Restoring Our Bodies, Reclaiming Our Lives . Among the dozens of truly astonishing letters I received while compiling this book was one fr ... Read on »
The Art of Recovery Hits the Big Time! by Aimee L. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders A few weeks back, I wrote an article for SecondAct.com about an extraordinary artist I met some years ago when she was just out of treatment at McCallum Place in St. Lou ... Read on »
First review for Restoring Our Bodies, Reclaiming Our Lives by Aimee L. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders Dear friends, I'm pleased to share the first review for my new book, which benefits the Academy for Eating Disorders. Just out from Publishers Weekly: Web Ex ... Read on »
Recovery and Relationship by Aimee L. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders This week's installment from RESTORING OUR BODIES, RECLAIMING OUR LIVES comes from a woman who busts a lot of myths about eating disorders.  When Marie first wrote t ... Read on »
Removing the Mask by Aimee L. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders The next installment from RESTORING OUR BODIES, RECLAIMING OUR LIVES is a letter from a former TV news anchor.  Lynette, now thirty-seven, had suffered from bulimia for ... Read on »
If Not Now, When? by Aimee L. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders Just 2 months from today, my new book project, RESTORING OUR BODIES, RECLAIMING OUR LIVES will be released by Trumpeter Books, an imprint of Shambhala Publications .  Al ... Read on »
Setting the Stage for Eating Disorders Recovery by Aimee L. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders Last week was National Eating Disorders Awareness Week.  If you missed it, take heart.  It's never too late to learn the truth about eating disorders, or to play an impo ... Read on »
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