Chelsea Roff is a bold and beautiful young woman who has spent the past decade advocating for girls and women with eating disorders, after fighting to excise her own disordered-eating demons.
Now, as a happy and healthy 25-year-old, it’s hard to imagine. But, like these twins battling their own eating disorders, Chelsea went through a long struggle before she got to the place she’s in now.
She remembers her trouble with food starting around age 12, when her family was in the middle of a distinct rough patch. From that point onward, she was in and out of hospitals, until her low point at age fifteen, when she had a stroke in the supermarket at a weight of only 58 pounds.
She was hospitalized for eighteen months before she was healthy enough to leave. When she did, she immediately took up yoga, the only exercise allowed during her recovery.
She never expected that the practice of yoga would help her to get back in touch with a body that she had been disconnected from for many years, much like Jessamyn the body-positive yogi.
Inspired by her own experience, Chelsea raised money to develop a program called Eat, Breathe, Thrive. This is a mindfulness program that helps patients struggling with disordered eating to get back in touch with what their bodies want and need.
Today, EBT has more than 100 practitioners around the country, treating patients in clinical and educational settings in 17 states. By 2018, she hopes to have 25 treatment centers around the country.
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