Women’s Mental Health, Body Image & Eating Disorder Blog
Honest, grounded insights from the therapists at The Collective on body image. Explore articles on eating disorders and disordered eating, anxiety, pregnancy and postpartum mental health, motherhood, and the experiences that shape how we feel about ourselves.
Some posts offer practical tools and perspectives you can use right now. Others explore the cultural conversations, expectations, and life experiences that can quietly affect your relationship with food, your body, and your mental health.
The goal isn’t to tell you how you should feel.
It’s to offer thoughtful, clinically informed perspectives that help you better understand what you’re experiencing, and remind you that you may not be the only one experiencing it.
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High Functioning Anxiety: The Struggles you don’t see
We often imagine anxiety as panic attacks or someone who looks visibly overwhelmed. But anxiety can look very different.
Think about Monica from Friends. On the outside, she’s organized, dependable, always on top of everything. But underneath, she’s driven by perfectionism, fear of failure, and a need for control. That’s what high-functioning anxiety looks like in real life: people who appear capable and composed, while quietly struggling with worry and tension that never shut off..
More Resources to Explore
Explore recommended workbooks, books, and other resources on mental health, body image, and anxiety curated and written by the team at The Collective by Francesca Emma.
Recommended Books & Workbooks
Curated reads by the team at The Collective by Francesca Emma.
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