Eating disorders, body image, restriction, bingeing. These come up often in Aila's work with teens and young adults. In this solo episode, she asks a different question: is it an eating disorder, a thinking disorder, neither, or both?

Aila shares her own story as a competitive athlete sidelined by injury, and the disordered eating that followed. She traces the moment everything shifted: the realization that none of it was really about her body at all. It was pointing to something deeper.

This episode is an invitation to see disordered behavior, and the thinking that drives it, not as something broken, but as a system reaching for wellness, however misguided the reach. Aila shares how this lens shapes her work with clients today, why the support around a young person matters as much as the inner work, and why she believes every symptom is, at its root, an impulse toward health.

Thank you for listening! For more information and resources, visit Barb's website and Aila's website.