This beautiful fable of a healing journey from disordered eating is told with vivid art and uplifting prose to inspire and remind others they're not alone.

I'm having a dinner party. I invited my oldest friends. The first guest to arrive is Perfection. Criticism arrives shortly after. Blame and Shame show up, side by side. Soon, there is another knock at the door...It's my new friends: Compassion, Grace, Love, and even Forgiveness. I welcome them all to stay at my table.

Author Elise Wrolstad was a collegiate athlete, but the weekly weigh-ins required by her coach sent her spiraling into a cycle of starvation and binge eating. Through My Dinner Party: A Healing Journey, she hopes to let others suffering from eating disorders know they are not alone on their journey of healing.

Elise Wrolstad is a writer, an extraordinary survivor of perilous adventures, a warrior, and a salty Aquarian. She is a former Special Education teacher and lives in Kenyon, Minnesota. Elise is working on coming to terms with her eating disorder and searching for pieces of grace between the cracks of darkness and light. She was a competitive athlete and endured the required weekly weigh-ins from her coach, thus beginning the cycle of starvation and binge eating. Elise believes in the power of second chances. She is a near-death survivor and fully grasps the ideal of living out loud and taking up space. Elise cannot say no to tattoos, coffee, or sleeping late. She loves oversized bulky sweaters and the four seasons, and she enjoys her family's fifth generation farmstead.