![To the Bone, Anorexia, Lily Collins, Marti Noxon, Netflix, Mental Health, Mental illness, Video, Coping, Therapy, Recovery, Advocate](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/11/A134E5AB-AC27-42CD-BF36-C74ACF333ADF-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
“To the Bone” is a dramatic film that was created, written and directed by Marti Noxon. The series was released and distributed by Netflix in…
![Eating Disorder, Anorexia, Bulimia, Recovery, Relapse, Mental Health, Addiction, Mental Illness, Body Image, Blythe Baird, Spoken Word, Poetry, Poet, Artist](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/04/8E92AE1B-17D2-491D-9F5D-1105B9B1FD4D-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
Blythe Baird shares a deeply personal and moving spoken-word poem about the difficulties she encounters after recovering from an eating disorder. Although it has been…
![mental health, video, short film, anorexia, bulimia, eating disorders, mental illness, therapy](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/03/DB7A43A2-97B5-47C3-AB3E-BB2A11633AD9-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
“Empty” is an award winning short film about a woman, Kiera, living with an eating disorder and her battle with the hypercritical voices in her…
![Models Face Routine Exploitation, Mental Health Problems](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2017/05/TL2-_-Feature-1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Former model Nikki Dubose has graced the covers of fashion magazines from Maxim to Vogue to Vanity Fair. She’s modeled in Barcelona, Paris, London, and…
![Personifying Eating Disorders](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/10/3967455172_5b27628bae_b-470x140.jpg?x81652)
“What’s eating you alive, might help you to survive” The Ted Leo and the Pharmacists song “Me and Mia” describes what it’s like to live…
![Skinny Girls Bleed Flowers](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/07/Ryan-McGuire-on-Gratisography-470x140.jpg?x81652)
‘Skinny Girls Bleed Flowers’ is a slam poem by Savannah Brown documenting her experience with anorexia and bulimia. Brown personifies the eating disorders as monsters…
![Real Monsters: Volume 2](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/03/tumblr_ns03v0WjTc1rvfh0po5_1280-1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
In his series ‘Real Monsters. Volume 2’ artist Toby Allen depicts what mental illnesses might look like, if they took the form of monsters that…