In this episode of Champion Mindset Collective, Anthony Dahya speaks with Mallary Tenore Tarpley, journalism professor and author of the forthcoming memoir Slip: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery.Mallary shares her powerful story — from losing her mother to cancer at age 11, to developing anorexia nervosa as a teenager, to spending years caught in cycles of binge eating and restriction.As she explains: “It wasn’t until my late twenties that I began to reframe my thinking: What if slips weren’t failures, but growth opportunities?”This is a conversation about resilience, healing, and what it truly means to live in “the middle” of recovery.✨ Key Episode Highlights & Takeaways
- Grief and perfectionism: “When my mother passed away, I thought grief was something you were supposed to get over in a day. So I went to school the very next day and even read her eulogy without crying.”
- How eating disorders can begin: Mallary recalls trying to “stop time” by staying the same size she was when her mom was alive.
- The hidden struggles: “For over a decade I was caught in a cycle of binge eating and restricting — all while telling everyone I was fully recovered.”
- Re-framing recovery: Shifting from shame to growth — “Recovery is a middle place… where slips happen, but progress is always possible.”
- Hope in imperfection: Why it’s okay to be in process and not at a “perfect” endpoint.
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