Author: Elena Overfield
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Stress and Recovery: Navigating Healing When Life Feels Heavy
Recovery asks a lot of you.It asks you to trust when trust feels impossible.It asks you to show up when you’re tired, to believe when everything feels heavy, to keep going even when the world feels like it’s pulling you backwards. And on top of that, life doesn’t exactly pause when you decide to heal.Bills…
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Stress Doesn’t Always Look Like a Breakdown. Sometimes It Looks Like High Achievement
When we think of stress, we picture crying in bed, panic attacks, feeling ‘stuck.’But sometimes stress doesn’t look like falling apart, it looks like excelling, overachieving, and ticking every box. Sometimes, it looks polished.Sometimes, it looks like hitting every deadline.Sometimes, it looks like pushing through when you’re running on empty.Sometimes, it looks like achievement. Stress…
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Why I’m Done Being ‘Low Maintenance’ and What That Means for My Boundaries
For as long as I can remember in relationships, I prided myself on being “low maintenance.” You know the type: easy-going, adaptable, never making a fuss. I told myself I didn’t need much from others. I was always the one who went along with plans, never asked for too much, never made waves. I wanted…
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Healing Your Relationship with Food in a World That Won’t Shut Up About Diets
Let’s be real for a minute. We live in a world that doesn’t know how to shut up about diets. Everywhere you look, there’s a new diet trend, a miracle food, a fast fix promising to solve all of your “problems” (which, spoiler alert, are often made up by the diet industry in the first…
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The Girl Who Had to Be ‘Good at Everything’… And What Happened When She Stopped
I was always the girl who had it together. The one who got good grades, never missed a deadline, smiled through stress, and said yes to everything. I made it look easy, because I thought I had to. Being “good at everything” wasn’t just something I did, it became who I was. And for a…
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Deinfluencing the Career Girly: Ditching Hustle Culture
We’ve glamorised burnout for far too long. That “career girly” image – early wake-ups, 10-hour workdays, inbox zero, oat latte in hand – looks impressive on Instagram. But behind the aesthetic is a reality a lot of us know too well: exhaustion, guilt around rest, and the constant pressure to do more. This blog post…
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Turning Exercise Into a Celebration, Not a Punishment
For years, exercise was something I did to change myself. To shrink, to “earn” food, to tick off a box that made me feel temporarily worthy. It was all about punishment, not joy… and definitely not connection. But it doesn’t have to be that way. In this blog post, I want to talk about reclaiming…
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Turning Experience Into Action: Creating Safer Social Media Spaces with BEAT & EDIFY
When I started working on this project with BEAT Eating Disorders UK and EDIFY at the University of Nottingham, I had no idea just how much it would come to mean to me — both professionally and personally. We set out with a clear mission: to create content and social media guidelines that help people…
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