This week on our show, we have an illuminating conversation with Mallary Tenore Tarpley, author of Slip, as she honestly and compassionately shares the healing journey of living with eating disorders and body dysmorphia. Mallary explores the long, winding path of recovery and introduces her groundbreaking “middle place” framework—a space where slips are part of healing, and progress is never linear. You’ll hear:
Mallary’s deeply personal story: losing her mother at a young age, developing anorexia, and navigating years of treatment and internal struggle
Insight into how body dysmorphia and perfectionism fuel cycles of self‑criticism and how she recovered and healed.
The concept of the middle place: embracing recovery not as a polished endpoint, but a messy, hopeful in‑between where slips are expected and shame can be transformed
What beyond recovery looks like and how she handles the SLIPS, which she goes deeper into in her book.
This episode is a must‑listen for anyone grappling with issues around food, body image, shame, grief, or imperfect recovery. Something that I know many survivors of CSA struggle with for reasons I also bring up in this episode, and Mallory shares her insights.
Tune in to this moving interview and discover a new, compassionate way to understand recovery: messy, human, and always evolving.
Connect with Mallory:Personal website: mallarytenoretarpley.com
Amazon for her book - preorder and get it August 5th: SLIP
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