My Best Friend, ED

For years, Katherine Luden believed she had found a kind of safety in her eating disorder - ED, not Edward, Edwin, or anyone you’d proudly introduce to your parents. A constant, a companion, even a “best friend.” But what felt like protection was, in reality, quietly dismantling her life.

In My Best Friend, ED, Katherine invites readers into the beautifully chaotic, often absurd, and deeply human experience of living with - and eventually breaking free from - an eating disorder. With sharp wit and unflinching honesty, she explores the deceptive comfort of disordered thinking, the identity it constructs, and the moments it steals.

This is not a story told in heavy clinical language or wrapped in despair. Instead, it is a memoir that balances humour with depth, illuminating the realities of mental illness in a way that is both accessible and profoundly moving. Through missed moments, hard-earned insight, and the gradual reclaiming of self, Katherine reveals what it truly takes to let go of something that once felt like survival.

Raw, relatable, and unexpectedly funny, My Best Friend, ED challenges stigma, opens conversation, and ultimately proves that healing is not neat or linear - but it is possible, and is worth choosing, again and again.