Sohee Carpenter

There was a lot of like, why are you doing that?

Why are you wasting your, you don't need a four year bachelor's degree from a, you know, a well-known college university to do that.

Or why don't you become something more prestigious?

There's always that kind of pushback.

But then I started seeing from all the bloggers that I was following and whatever.

I was like, first of all, one, I'm not seeing a lot of females in this space.

female voices, mostly men, which is common, very male dominated industry.

And two, especially with my budding interest in psychology, I'm like, I'm also not seeing a lot of people talking about the psychology of fitness and the psychology of like eating behavior.

And even though I feel obviously very new to the space, I think there's a gap there.

I wanted to understand myself better and I wanted to take what I learned and then translate it back to the general public.

I want to understand.

Yeah.

I had meltdowns.

I was crying all the time.

I don't know that it did, actually.

I think I was struggling, but I think it was a consistent struggle for me.

I know that for a lot of people, stress levels do exacerbate.

disordered eating symptoms or behaviors I don't think that was the case for me necessarily I was always kind of like the same binge restrict over exercise cycle over and over and over as these things happened how did you or how would you recommend maybe first start with how you began to manage it

Okay, so it was a very gradual process for me.

And a lot of it was actually before I went back to get my master's degree.