ABSTRACT

Editors’ Note: This chapter poetically intersects with three thematic tabs: body, emotion and women. Newcomer reflects on an all-too-common theme today, the dissolution of healthy food-body relationships, and demonstrates a profound interweaving of emotion, intellect, physical activity, trauma, hunger, and fatigue in her experiences of ‘disordered’ eating. Newcomer’s words highlight the kind of complex and situated struggle that many women experience with respect to their food-body relationships.