How Eating Peanut Butter Toast Helped My 12-Year-Old Daughter Get Her Life Back

Living with germaphobia after a pandemic

Photo of author and daughter Forest, on the day of the 2023 solar eclipse — courtesy of author, used with daughter’s permission

“I’m not hungry.”

Insert trauma trigger here.

She wasn’t starving like I was in early childhood. All the same, I get a jolt of fear when my kids don’t eat enough. I’m especially concerned when my underweight…