Recover privately.
On your own terms.
A self-administered program for people living with anorexia who are doing this quietly — no therapist, no waiting list, no one who has to know. Written by a team of women who recovered from it themselves.
Structured material and exercises you work through in private, at whatever pace you can manage. For adults who are medically stable. Not therapy, not treatment, and not a substitute for medical care.
One struggle. A program for each end of it.
The same illness shows up in opposite ways, so there is a program written for each. The method underneath is identical — if you have been at both ends, you can switch and it carries across.
Overcome Anorexia™
Adults 18+You were discharged as recovered, or never treated at all. Your labs are fine, and you are still deciding what you are allowed to eat today.
What it works on: Explore the program
Overcome Binge Eating™
Adults 18+Your day is fine until it is not. You have started again on Monday more times than you can count, and every plan you find asks for more control.
What it works on: Explore the programNo referral. No waiting list. No one to tell.
Restricting and bingeing are not two different problems.
They are the same rule system, running in opposite directions. Restriction builds the pressure; bingeing is what the body does about it. Most people move between the two — sometimes across years, sometimes within a single week — and being told they are separate illnesses is part of why it stays hidden.
The same method works at both ends, because it works on the rules rather than the food. The daily work differs, so there are two programs.
Why this exists.
Every person who worked on this had it. We built the thing we needed and could not find.
Four reasons this does something the others do not.
It works on the rules, not the food
Meal plans treat the symptom. The rule system is what produces the symptom, and it survives every plan you have ever been given — which is why you can eat correctly for months and still not be free.
It moves at your pace, not a clinic’s
Nobody discharges you when the funding runs out. You work a phase until it holds, and if that takes three months instead of one, nothing happens except that it works.
It was written by people who had it
Not observed, had. The exercises are the ones we each did badly and privately for years before anyone gave them a name, written down properly so you do not have to invent them.
It never measures your body
No weight, no calories, no macros, no photographs. Progress is how much of the day is yours — which is the only thing that was ever actually wrong.
“Everyone kept telling me I looked well.”
I was discharged at a normal weight and everyone treated that as the end of it. I was still weighing oats at six in the morning and I could not say so to anyone, because on paper I was better. The first thing this gave me was language for what I was still doing. That sounds like a small thing. It was not a small thing.
Kara
• Eating without arithmetic
• Wanting things again
• Quieter days
“I had not called it anything in nine years.”
I stopped calling it an eating disorder somewhere around twenty-two, because I was functioning and nobody was worried about me. I still knew the calorie count of everything I ate. Writing the rule inventory was the first time I had seen it set down as a system rather than as my personality.
Derek
• Discharged years ago
• Still counting
• Not any more
“I thought I had the opposite problem.”
I came for help with bingeing and spent the first month writing down rules I did not know I had. The delayed first meal. The dessert I had to earn. Nobody had ever told me that the nights were built in the mornings.
Shanna
• The day, not the night
• Eating earlier
• Stopped starting over
Help exists for the middle. Nothing exists for the ends.
Weight is what treatment can measure, so weight is what gets treated — and it is also what returns first. Before you are ill enough to qualify, and after the chart is closed, you are on your own with a rule system that never went anywhere.
You know something is wrong. You do not meet the criteria, and every door asks how bad it is first.
Admission, insurance, intensive care, a team. The only stretch anyone builds for.
Weight restored, coverage ended. The rules are still running and there is nothing left to walk into.
Overcome programs are written for the first and the last — not because the middle does not matter, but because it is the only part anyone built for.
Therapy is one kind of help. It should not be the only one.
It works, and for many people it is the right thing. But it costs $150 to $300 an hour, the waiting lists run months, and it asks you to say the whole of it out loud to another person before you have decided you are ready to.
Plenty of people are not in therapy and will not be this year. That is not a failure of willpower or a lack of seriousness — it is money, access, timing, and readiness. The choice most people are actually facing is not therapy or this. It is this, or nothing.
If you can get therapy and you want it, get it. This runs alongside it perfectly well.
Select the best fit.
Priced in full and in writing before you start. Overcome does not bill insurance, and we will tell you that plainly rather than let you discover it later.
Monthly
Rolling access to everything. Cancel any time, from your account, in one click.
- The full curriculum, in order
- Rule inventory and all worksheets
- The appetite track
- Progress tracking, no body numbers
Full Program
The whole thing, paid once, yours for good. Cheaper than paying monthly across eight to twelve months.
- Everything in Monthly
- All four phases, kept for good
- The family module
- Relapse-warning plan template
- Take-to-your-team summaries
With coaching
The full program plus a person. Two 45-minute sessions a month with a coach who is years into their own recovery, trained in the method and clinically supervised. The full program is included.
- The complete program, included
- Two 45-minute sessions a month
- Messages answered between calls
- Summaries you can take to your team
- Limited places, so there is a waitlist
Not weight-restored. Recovered.
Four things have to be true at once. None of them arrive in a few weeks, and three of them are never measured by the system that discharged you.
Eating costs you nothing
You eat a normal meal, in normal company, and nothing follows it. No arithmetic, no correction, no adjustment to tomorrow. Food goes quiet and stays quiet.
You eat what you actually want
Wanting something stops being evidence of a problem. A craving becomes information rather than a threat, and it is allowed to be reason enough on its own.
Your appetite comes back
Hunger and fullness are signals the illness switched off. They return slowly, unevenly, and out of order. Rebuilding them is physical work, not a change of mind — and it takes the longest.
You are one person again
Not a self plus a set of rules negotiating with each other all day. The part of you that decides and the part of you that wants stop being two different things. That is the measure this program is built around — your physical health belongs with your doctor, not with us.
$39 a month. Cancel whenever you want.
Or $297 once for the whole program. Read who it is written for before you start — if you are not at that stage yet, please do not buy it.