guest post by Rachel D.L. When I was thirteen years old, I fell suddenly ill. An unsafe home environment, doctors who dismissed my symptoms, and the resultant changes with my eating, became the only tool at my disposal to help me cope with my symptoms and trauma. This led to my hospitalization at Comer’s Children’s Hospital of Chicago. I was then transferred with little warning to a psychiatric hospital. As a result of those traumatic experiences, I’d learned the danger of listening to my body and myself. Unfortunately, the summer before my sophomore year of college when I was nineteen, … Continue reading Spotlight: Independence: A Memoir of Illness, Inaccess & Objectification