Mallary Tenore Tarpley, SLIP: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Journalist and professor at UT Austin Mallary Tenore Tarpley joins Zibby to discuss her groundbreaking new book, SLIP: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery. Mallary describes her messy, nonlinear path to recovery from anorexia, sharing what it’s like to live in the “middle place” between sickness and full recovery. She reveals how she combined personal stories with research, immersive reporting, and cutting-edge science, touching on the emotional toll of revisiting her childhood journals and treatment records. Finally, they discuss identity, grief, motherhood, healing, and how Mallary is raising her own children with compassion and awareness.

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1:16.9	Mallory Tenor Tarpley is the author of Slip, Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery.
1:22.3	She is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where she teaches journalism
1:26.8	classes in the Moody College of Communication and writing classes at the McC of Texas at Austin, where she teaches journalism classes in the
1:27.7	Moody College of Communication and writing classes at the McCombes School of Business.
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