Amie Newman
Writer, editor, nonprofit communications executive, workshop leader, and storyteller exploring the intimate, complex truths of our bodies—truths so often silenced by stigma, shame, and structural neglect.
Featured Projects
VIDEO: Eating Disorder Recovery in Midlife Q&A
Originally aired: Friday, February 27, 2026
Watch the video Q&A with me and Open Secrets editor Rachel Kramer Bussel about midlife women and eating disorders! This was hosted by Open Secrets Magazine for Eating Disorders Awareness Week.
Reclaiming Ourselves: Menopause, Life Transitions and More
A virtual or in-person workshop
Interested in an interactive workshop exploring the transformative possibilities of midlife and beyond? What stories are you ready to complicate—or completely refuse? And what stories are you beginning to author instead? Through shared storytelling, reflective writing, and gentle movement, we’ll reconnect with our bodies, release outdated narratives, and imagine what’s possible in this next chapter.
This Is Not Your Mother’s Eating Disorder
An anthology exploring eating disorders, body image, and recovery across generations. Now accepting submissions.
New Essay in Steph Sprenger’s upcoming Redacted: What Divorced Women Aren’t Telling You
Stay tuned for the upcoming anthology “Redacted,” set to be published in 2027, about midlife women and divorce, in which I have an essay.
LatestWork
A Spring Clearing: Purple Crocuses and A Book Update
I know I am slowly saying goodbye to pieces of me that have felt like body parts, that I thought I needed to stay alive: the ongoing current of anxiety, the thrum of criticism in my head. I remind myself that the ache is powerful. It’s what transformation feels like. We can’t grow without saying goodbye to what we no longer need, to create space and room to nurture new worlds within us.
A Love Letter to Myself After Eating Disorder Treatment
The sharp, familiar outlines of anorexia and bulimia came into view when I met T. I was 52 years old, two years separated from my husband of 25 years, and still grieving the sudden death of my mother. T. wasn’t the cause of the resurgence of this decades-long disease. He didn’t create the cliff that I had been hurtling toward—but he certainly encouraged me to jump.
Slip, Not Failure: A Conversation With Mallary Tenore Tarpley
I was honored to interview Mallary Tenore Tarpley, author and journalism and writing professor at the University of Texas at Austin, about her new book, “Slip: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery.”
ADHD, Menopause, and Midlife Eating Disorders
“ I find these conversations so interesting—this conversation with you, the conversations I’m having with other women between this perimenopausal and menopausal age—because we pepper in all this estrogen and cortisol and dopamine and lack of testosterone and midlife ADHD…and you know, I think we’re piecing these things together for ourselves.”
Write Your Eating Disorder (Even When It’s Messy)
When I started writing about the eating disorder I experienced at 54 years old, I was in a writing group for midlife women. I joined the group to restart my writing practice…
I’m (Not) Too Old For An Eating Disorder
Or why I am editing an anthology of midlife women’s experiences with eating disorders titled “This Is Not Your Mother’s Eating Disorder” coming out in Fall 2026. Because our stories aren’t the end of the struggle — they’re a way through it.
About
I'm a writer and editor based in Seattle, living by the water with my family. I write to explore what it means to be a woman—to embrace the confusion of life with connection and curiosity.
My work focuses on reproductive justice, women's health, and the intersections of motherhood, body autonomy, and social change. I've spent decades in nonprofit communications and journalism, and I bring that same commitment to storytelling and advocacy to my work as an abortion doula and yoga teacher.
I'm currently working on an anthology about eating disorders in midlife women called This Is Not Your Mother's Eating Disorder.
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