This episode is an interview with the food blogger and recipe developer behind Recipe Runner, Danae Halliday. Danae grew up in Arizona, where she discovered running through her older sister. She ran throughout high school, but found herself burnt out and took a break from the sport when she went to Arizona State University. When her sister started training for marathons, Danae found herself inspired to pick it up again and fell in love with the longer distance.

Despite her love of food and recipe developing, Danae found herself struggling with an eating disorder. This led to a vicious injury cycle that she couldn’t find her way out of. She eventually reached out for help, and has been in treatment and active recovery since 2022. She hopes to get healthy enough to line up to race again soon!

In this episode, we talk about:

How her sister inspired her to start running in high school
Why she took a break from the sport in college and how she found her way back to running
How a comment from a coworker about her body led to restriction around food that resulted in an eating disorder
Why she finally decided to seek help and what that has looked like for her
Advice on how to be there for someone in your life struggling with an eating disorder
Why it’s important to approach recovery and treatment from a way that works for you
How she founded Recipe Runner and why developing recipes has been a healing tool for her throughout her eating disorder recovery

You can keep up with Danae on Instagram at @reciperunner, and you can find her recipes and food blog on her website https://reciperunner.com/

***A trigger warning for this episode: we do talk about an active eating disorder and eating disorder behaviors. If you are not in a place to hear that, you may want to skip this episode***