Author: Elena Overfield
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Dating, Intimacy and Recovery: The Space That Comes After Survival
Recovery doesn’t just give you food back — it gives you space. Space to think about other people again, to feel connected, to imagine intimacy without rules or performance. This piece explores the part of eating disorder recovery no one really prepares you for: how strange it feels to fall in love, to let yourself…
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Come Celebrate With Me: Every Day Something Tried to Kill Me and Failed
Survival isn’t loud. It doesn’t arrive with clarity, gratitude, or a neat ending. Most days, it looks like eating when your brain says don’t, resting when guilt says push, and choosing to stay even when joy feels distant. It’s the quiet, repetitive work of resisting old thoughts, old identities, and the belief that you’d be…
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Letting Go Of Past Versions Of You
Letting go of old versions of ourselves is difficult because those identities once served as protection, safety, or coping mechanisms during challenging periods of our lives. Even when they no longer help us, they feel familiar and tied to our sense of self, making change feel threatening. Growth often involves grief for who we were,…
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The Year Of The Snake: The Final Shedding Before 2026 Starts
A blog post by Pepetoe. New Podcast Episode OUT NOW January has a strange way of lying to us. The calendar flips, the noise gets louder, and suddenly we’re expected to feel brand new. Motivated. Certain. Ready. But for so many of us, that hasn’t been the reality at all. Instead, January has felt heavy,…
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The Great Lock In of 2026
“Locking in” doesn’t have to mean restriction, extremes, or disappearing from your life. In this post, I explore “The Great Lock In” as a softer, more intentional approach to growth – one rooted in clarity, inner work, and realistic habits that actually last as we move into 2026.
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Otrovert: When Your Social Energy Doesn’t Fit a Label
A new term, otrovert, has recently emerged online to describe people whose social energy shifts depending on who they’re around. Some days, connection feels effortless and energising; other days, even small interactions feel draining. In this piece, I explore what it means to feel socially “fluid” and why we don’t need to force ourselves into…
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The Knot That Taught Me What Freedom Really Feels Like
Some problems don’t untangle no matter how hard you try. Some knots in life — relationships, habits, versions of yourself — only yield when you choose a decisive way forward. In this post, I explore the Gordian Knot as a metaphor for the year: how I learned that freedom sometimes comes not from understanding, but…
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I’m Ending the Year Without Answers, and That’s Okay
I thought ending a year meant understanding it. Naming the lessons. Making sense of everything that hurt. But this year didn’t offer answers, it offered uncertainty. This post is about learning to close a chapter without clarity, and why not knowing yet doesn’t mean you’ve failed. It means you’re human.
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