About

Welcome to Happy Go Muffins! I'm Frances, and I hope that this can be a helpful resource for you as you navigate eating disorder recovery and learn to find the joy in life again.

Initially created as Moth Bird--a literature, art, and music blog--Happy Go Muffins is a safe space for anyone who's ever felt more at home talking to cats than to people. Growing up with a patchwork spirituality that blended Taoist vastness with saints and tree faeries, I've always been drawn to the subtle magic present in the world around us, but when I was fifteen, a series of stressful events led me into the outstretched arms of anorexia, orthorexia, and an exercise addiction. Even with the support of my mum and brother and doctors, I struggled with the bullying voices in my head for over six years, and it wasn't until recently that I finally embraced recovery as a way out of the hole I'd fallen into it. Pursuing work as a teacher and as a writer, I found a sense of purpose outside of controlling my diet, exercise, and schedule. I'm still definitely "in recovery," but I now understand that recovery--as difficult as it is--is the ultimate key to freedom, and I want to share the things that have helped me with the hope that they can help other eating disorder warriors, too. I also want to help create a world in which people count acts of compassion instead of calories. In the end, it's what's in our hearts that matters--not whether or not we ate a cookie.

Thank you for visiting Happy Go Muffins!