Amie Newman
Writer, editor, advocate, workshop leader, and storyteller exploring the intimate, complex truths of our bodies and lives—truths so often silenced by stigma, shame, and structural neglect.
Featured Projects
Wham! Bam! Thank you! Slam!: Freedom or Fear
I joined nine other writers for an amazing hour of storysharing about “Freedom or Fear” where I read a short story about the unexpected freedom of injuring myself in Mexico. You can view it at the link below!
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? Through shared storytelling, reflective writing, and gentle movement, we’ll reconnect with our bodies, release outdated narratives, and imagine what’s possible in this next chapter.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
I am writing and editing an anthology of midlife women’s experiences with eating disorders, body image, and recovery across generations. Through essays, poems, and art, we share our personal struggles. Exciting news coming soon!
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.
Sideways: A Variety Show
Join me on Saturday, August 29th at Fremont Abbey Arts in Seattle! Twelve performers, including me, with lived experience with eating disorders and OCD share our stories through story, dance, music, and more. Hosted by Opal: Food+Body Wisdom. All proceeds benefit The Busyhead Project. Tickets at link below!
LatestWork
The Big & Little Mercies of My Body
This injury gives me the chance to release from the control—both the control I thought I had in the depths of my eating disorders and over the years of trying to manipulate my body, control in my own recovery from those eating disorders as I have sought to think and behave in healthier ways, and control over what my time in Mexico (and beyond) will look like.
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…
About
I have worn many hats over the years as a proud Gen X woman with ADHD is wont to do: journalist, writer/editor, activist, filmmaker, and nonprofit leader. I am also the mother of two beautiful adult children who are my inspiration and guides.
For more than two decades, I have written about and amplified the complicated realities of women’s lives, bodies, and identities with a particular focus on stories often hidden by shame, stigma, and misogyny.
I live in Seattle, by the water, where I juggle leading communications for a nonprofit human services agency, am co-producing a live theater project about menopause, and working on an anthology about eating disorders in midlife women featuring first-person essays, interviews, poems and art called This Is Not Your Mother's Eating Disorder.
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