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Eating Disorder Awareness Week

23rd Feb – 1st March | 2025

On Sunday 24th May I will be running the Edinburgh Half Marathon in aid of BEAT Eating Disorders UK. Not as a way to punish my body, but as a way to give back to an incredible charity, and to celebrate what my body can do. Any donations are greatly appreciated and will go directly to BEAT through my JustGiving link.

Recent Blog Posts

You Don’t Have To Be Sorry Or Ready: You Just Have To Try

You don’t have to be fully healed, fearless, or perfectly prepared to begin. So much of our lives are spent waiting to feel “ready” — more confident, more stable, more sure of ourselves. But growth doesn’t happen before you try; it happens because you try. This post is about letting go of the apology, releasing…

Friendship, Recovery & the Love That Actually Saves You

Romantic love is often treated as the ultimate goal, but in recovery, it’s rarely what keeps you alive. This piece is about the quieter kind of love — the friends and family who stay when you’re no longer fun, productive, or easy to be around. The love that doesn’t need you to perform, improve, or…

Love Letters I Never Wrote To My Body (Until Now)

This isn’t a love letter in the way Valentine’s Day wants love letters to be. There are no grand declarations or tidy endings here. It’s a conversation with a body I spent years fighting, ignoring, and trying to control. This piece is about calling a ceasefire — choosing care without needing to feel love first,…

Dating, Intimacy and Recovery: The Space That Comes After Survival

Recovery doesn’t just give you food back — it gives you space. Space to think about other people again, to feel connected, to imagine intimacy without rules or performance. This piece explores the part of eating disorder recovery no one really prepares you for: how strange it feels to fall in love, to let yourself…

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Ellie Overfield, author and creator behind Pepetoe, is passionate about sharing tips and tricks on how to become your best self.
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