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In this week’s episode of the Step Stories podcast, Host Robin Breuner interviews UT Austin writing professor and journalist Mallary Tenore Tarpley about her memoir, Slip: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery, and how losing her mother to metastatic breast cancer at 11 shaped her grief, identity, and anorexia. They discuss the “middle place” between acute illness and full recovery, why eating disorders can be driven by control, trauma, and genetic/environmental factors, and how stereotypes like “skinny white affluent girl” limit recognition and care. Mallary shares how her father dating and later remarrying intensified her disordered behaviors, her treatment experience and relapses, and how openness, storytelling, and ongoing check-ins support healing for grieving children and stepparents. They also touch on GLP-1 drugs and the need for broader resources.

 

Mallary Tenore Tarpley

Email:           mallary.tenore@utexas.edu

Website (personal): mallarytenoretarpley

Facebook:    fb/Mallary Tenore

Instagram:    ig/mallarytenoretarpley

LinkedIn:      in/mallary tenore tarpley

Substack:     mallary.substack

Books: SLIP (hardcover), SLIP (paperback), SLIP(spanish)

 

Robin Breuner 

Email:  robinbreuner@gmail.com

Website:  www.robinbreuner.com

Instagram: stepstoriespodcastIG

Facebook: stepstoriespodcastFB

Linkedin:  RobinBreunerLinkIN

Podcast:  StepStories Podcast

Threads:  @robinbreuner

YouTube: StepStories Podcast YouTube

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