by Jamie Cattanach | Feb 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
I’ve written a good deal about my history of disordered eating both here on the blog and elsewhere — so much so that it sometimes feels like it’s all I write about anymore. But there’s a reason. There are a couple of reasons, actually, but the...
by Jamie Cattanach | Dec 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
Greetings from a brick-lined apartment in the Nob Hill neighborhood of Portland, where I’m lying in bed with my leg elevated because A: it’s all the furniture I have and B: I did so much moving and walking and stair-climbing these last few days, my right...
by Jamie Cattanach | Nov 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
Last November, I was drafting the first piece I published with Huffington Post — about how losing weight did not, as I had so long been taught it would, fix everything in my life (and had actually made a whole lot of things considerably worse). Although I was...
by Jamie Cattanach | Sep 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
I catapulted myself across the country, aimlessly aimed at Seattle, hoping this crevice of Pacific coast would offer me a place to fold into. It did. I’ve been here for almost six weeks now, and I have to say, I’m pretty smitten. A lot of what I’ve...
by Jamie Cattanach | Sep 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
Five days before my thirtieth birthday, I’m holed up in a coffee shop in Maple Falls, Washington, the only place in a ten mile radius of my current campsite with reliable WiFi. Yesterday, I drove out of the wilderness after my first backpacking trip ever,...
by Jamie Cattanach | Aug 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
If you follow me on social media, you may have seen the photo above, cryptically captioned, “I did a thing.” The thing I did: move, full-time, into a 17-foot travel trailer, as I’ve been threatening to do for years. (Yes, even after I waxed poetic...
