A writer learns to embrace her imperfect recovery from an eating disorder

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Instead of finding helpful advice about her changing body, Tarpley saw models with big hair and emaciated figures. In her new book, SLIP: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery, which combines memoir and research, Tarpley, now 40, writes about living with an eating disorder and the insights she’s gained as an adult. There was more immediacy to it, which helped me to think about forward momentum through the middle place. One of the biggest misconceptions is that the middle place is about settling for stagnancy, and it’s really not. Being in the middle place, what challenge does that present to you as a parent to a 9-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son?