You may be surviving
while the illness still
organises your mind
It outlives the treatment. It survives in the counting, the rehearsing, the corrections after a meal, the exits planned before you arrive, the days built backwards from one meal, and the rules nobody else can see. Stable is not the same as free of it.
Our mission
To put real recovery within reach of the people who are stable, functioning, and still living by the rules their eating disorder wrote.
The ones the system stopped counting — discharged the week the numbers came back, or never treated at all, or priced out of therapy, or eleven months into a waiting list. Most of them have told nobody, and most were never going to. It is the largest group in this illness and the least served.
Treatment is built to make you medically safe, and it is right to be. This is built for what is left afterwards: the rule system itself, surfaced one rule at a time, dated, taken apart and rebuilt from evidence over eight to twelve months. No appointment, no diagnosis required, no waiting list, and no number about your body anywhere inside it.
How did Overcome get its name?
Almost everyone who has had this was handed a noun. Anorexic. Bulimic. Disordered. After enough years the word stops describing something you have and starts describing something you are — which is the mechanism that keeps it in place.
Overcome is named for the opposite of that. It is a verb, it belongs to you rather than to the illness, and it is the one thing every person who worked on this wanted: a word for what you do to it, instead of a word for what it made you.
The power of not having to tell anyone
“The reason most of us went years without help was never that help did not exist. It was that asking for it meant saying it out loud, and saying it was the one thing the illness would not allow.”
What we stand for
Expanding access to something rather than nothing
The realistic alternative for most people reading this is not therapy. It is nothing at all. Outpatient care runs to hundreds of dollars a session and most people with an eating disorder never receive any treatment for it.
Pricing
Publishing the thinking before anybody pays
The model, the phases it moves through, and a plain account of who this is not appropriate for — all of it on this site, free, before a payment is taken. If the way we think about this is wrong for you, we would rather you found out now.
Our approach
of the thinking behind it is published before anyone is asked to pay
Driving outcomes through measurement, not marketing
Four things are tracked across the program, and not one of them is your body. No weights, no calories, no photographs — only what the rules can still make you do.
See outcomes
- Rules surfaced, and how many you have tested
- What breaking one still costs you
- The meals, places and people you avoid
- Hours a week the rules take up
Working here
Every role is remote and every role is written work. What we look for, the open positions, and how to apply are on the careers page.
See open roles$39 a month. Cancel whenever you want.
Or $297 once for the whole program. The model is published before you buy — read it first, and only start if it sounds like your rules.