Category: wellness
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Eating Disorders Aren’t About Food. They’re About Control
Eating disorders aren’t really about food — they’re about control. When life feels uncertain, overwhelming, or out of sync, food and exercise can become something tangible to manage. In this post, I explore why control sits at the centre of so many eating disorders, why relapse can happen during stressful periods, and why this illness…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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Come Celebrate With Me: Every Day Something Tried to Kill Me and Failed
Survival isn’t loud. It doesn’t arrive with clarity, gratitude, or a neat ending. Most days, it looks like eating when your brain says don’t, resting when guilt says push, and choosing to stay even when joy feels distant. It’s the quiet, repetitive work of resisting old thoughts, old identities, and the belief that you’d be…
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Letting Go Of Past Versions Of You
Letting go of old versions of ourselves is difficult because those identities once served as protection, safety, or coping mechanisms during challenging periods of our lives. Even when they no longer help us, they feel familiar and tied to our sense of self, making change feel threatening. Growth often involves grief for who we were,…
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The Year Of The Snake: The Final Shedding Before 2026 Starts
A blog post by Pepetoe. New Podcast Episode OUT NOW January has a strange way of lying to us. The calendar flips, the noise gets louder, and suddenly we’re expected to feel brand new. Motivated. Certain. Ready. But for so many of us, that hasn’t been the reality at all. Instead, January has felt heavy,…
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Otrovert: When Your Social Energy Doesn’t Fit a Label
A new term, otrovert, has recently emerged online to describe people whose social energy shifts depending on who they’re around. Some days, connection feels effortless and energising; other days, even small interactions feel draining. In this piece, I explore what it means to feel socially “fluid” and why we don’t need to force ourselves into…
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