I started Project Unlaced because I was that girl: the one struggling in silence, with no language for what I was experiencing and no community that met me where I actually was. When I was going through eating disorder recovery, the resources I found were built for people on the other side of it, recovered, healed, and looking back. But I needed something while I was still in the middle of it. I needed someone to name what was happening, to tell me the world I was growing up in — the filtered feeds, the impossible standards, the digital culture that was never built with young women in mind — was making things harder. Nobody was talking about that. So I decided to.