“My eating disorder tries to tell me that I’d be safer in a smaller body, but I try to remind myself that the ‘safety’ and relief came at the cost of everything else in my life. As my body shrunk, so did my entire life.”⁣ ⁣ Shira Rosenbluth (theshirarose) is uniquely positioned in her career as an eating disorder therapist, since she is in recovery for anorexia and bulimia.⁣ ⁣ “It feels empowering to be able to take my years of suffering and pain and use it to try and make this world a safer place for people in larger bodies. I was a therapist in an outpatient clinic for the first three years of my career and had no intention of treating eating disorders because of my history. But every time I had a client with an eating disorder walk through my door, we were able to do amazing work and it was an area that I was so incredibly passionate about and also really good at. I knew that this was what I was meant to do. It’s the biggest privilege to be able to to be a part of someone else’s hea...