Shannon. Pearl.

Shannon Cutts is the author of Beating Ana: How to Outsmart Your Eating Disorder and Take Your Life Back, the first book to address the importance of adding a recovered person, or mentor, to the treatment team.

She is also a college circuit speaker who has traveled the country presenting her popular campus program, Beauty Undressed, and the founder/executive director for MentorCONNECT, the first global nonprofit eating disorders mentoring community.

In addition to writing “Mentoring & Recovery” here at Psych Central, Shannon is a contributing writer for the Huffington Post, Gurze Books/Bulimia.com, Things Women Want and others. Her work in the eating disorders field has most recently been featured in Glamour and Woman’s Day.

For more information about Shannon: shannoncutts.wordpress.com

Even more information: shannoncutts.com and mentorconnect-ed.org

For more information about Pearl: loveandfeathers.wordpress.com