Content Warning: restrictive and disordered eating (800) 931–2237 National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) helpline A year ago if someone had told me I could be regularly eating ice cream for dessert and be perfectly healthy, I would have thought they were wrong, that their notion of health was far too…

The coming Monday marks the start date of my first ever backpacking trip. My boyfriend and I are spending 8 days backpacking through Baxter State Park in Maine. …

It was right around mile 18 of a 20 mile day in the New Hampshire White Mountains. Myself, my boyfriend, and a friend of his were spending the day traversing the Carter Moriah Range, summiting Moriah, Middle Carter, South Carter, Carter Dome, and Wildcat A and D. At this point…