From a wheelchair
to recovered.

For nearly ten years, anorexia shaped my life. I did everything you're "supposed" to do: years of therapy, multiple eating disorder clinics, hospital admissions, endless analysing of thoughts, fears, and behaviors. Recovery felt impossible — especially because my story was never just about food.

I was an insecure but capable child who learned early that restriction felt like control. When I went to college at 21, I genuinely enjoyed parts of life again — but the eating disorder quietly tightened its grip in the background. And then my body stepped in.

Years earlier I'd been bitten by a tick. Nothing dramatic at the time — until my health slowly collapsed. Crushing fatigue, memory loss, severe muscle pain, doctors without answers, and eventually a diagnosis of chronic Lyme disease. I ended up in a wheelchair.

If you've ever had multiple things going on at once — an eating disorder, physical illness, chronic pain, anxiety — you'll recognise this feeling of becoming "too complex," passed from professional to professional, while starting to believe you might be beyond help.

The shift didn't come with a dramatic breakthrough. It came on an ordinary evening, sitting on the couch. Something in me finally changed. I realised that no therapist, clinic, or diagnosis was going to recover for me. If I wanted my life back, I had to commit to the repetitive, often uncomfortable work recovery actually requires.

The biology-based work of Tabitha Farrar helped me put words to this and shaped my recovery deeply. As I regained my health, it became clear why I hadn't felt seen for so long: my case was complex — and complex does not mean impossible.

Over nine years, I've worked with hundreds of people from all walks of life, ranging from 14 to 58, with eating disorders alongside chronic illness, pain, anxiety, trauma, neurodivergence, and more. People who feel "too much," too layered, too hard to fit into a standard approach. From this work, I developed the DVK Recovery Method® — practical, biology-based, and grounded in real life.

If you feel complex, unseen, or like you've already tried everything, you are exactly who I work with. And if I can recover after nearly a decade of illness and comorbidity, I truly believe: you can too.

The story behind the method.

Long before I became a recovery coach, I was deeply stuck in my own eating disorder. I became the revolving-door patient in treatment centres, and I was repeatedly told I was “too complex.” I had chronic Lyme disease, had been ill for years, and eventually professionals told me I would probably never fully recover.

At one point, I truly believed recovery just wasn’t possible for me. But the beginning of my recovery looked far less glamorous than I expected. It looked like eating consistently, nutrition rehabilitating, resting, allowing my body to heal — and learning to stop negotiating with the eating disorder.

Through years of coaching hundreds of clients worldwide, I kept seeing the same thing: people did not need more information. Eating disorders are not maintained by a lack of intelligence — they are maintained by fear, rituals, compulsions, emotional avoidance, nervous system dysregulation, and deeply wired behavioural patterns.

The DVK Recovery Method® was developed to break those patterns — compassionately, practically, and consistently. Not just to “manage” an eating disorder, but to pursue full recovery.