Attending to the shades of grey in eating disorder recovery may help to illuminate possibilities for navigating recoveries in their full complexity and diversity. There is a need for more complexity and flexibility in understandings of the timelines, processes, endpoints, and versions of eating disorder recoveries. In this article, we explore eating disorder recovery as a dynamic, intercorporeal, and non-linear process. Drawing on interviews with 20 people doing significantly better than they were during a time of acute distress around food and body, we articulate “recoveries” in relation to four themes: Fuzzy Logics of Time, Not Only Recovered, Recovery is Not All Sunshine and Rainbows, and The Life of Recovery. These themes speak to the ways in which participants struggled to articulate the temporalities of their recoveries, situated recovery as one among many events and processes that shaped their being in the world, resisted “too perfect” articulations of recovery journeys/ endpoints, and described preferred versions of and open-ended guidelines for recovery. We argue that eating disorder recoveries are as complicated and messy as lives themselves and are equally entangled in social contexts. We suggest that articulations of recovery be attuned to power dynamics as they operate in dictating which performances of eating disorders and recovery will be honoured as “legitimate” and whose pathways to recovery will be respected.

关注饮食失调恢复中的灰色阴影可能有助于阐明在其完全复杂性和多样性中导航恢复的可能性。在理解进食障碍康复的时间表、过程、终点和版本方面需要更加复杂和灵活。在本文中，我们将饮食失调的恢复视为一个动态的、跨体的和非线性的过程。通过对 20 人的采访，他们在食物和身体方面的严重困扰期间表现明显好于他们，我们阐明了与四个主题相关的“恢复”：时间的模糊逻辑，不仅恢复了，恢复并不全是阳光和彩虹，和恢复的生活。这些主题讲述了参与者努力阐明他们康复的时间性的方式，将恢复作为塑造他们在世界上的存在的许多事件和过程之一，抵制恢复旅程/终点的“过于完美”的表述，并描述了恢复的首选版本和开放式指南。我们认为，饮食失调的康复与生活本身一样复杂和混乱，并且同样纠缠在社会环境中。我们建议恢复的表达与权力动态相协调，因为它们在决定饮食失调和恢复的哪些表现将被视为“合法”以及哪些恢复途径将受到尊重时发挥作用。我们认为，饮食失调的康复与生活本身一样复杂和混乱，并且同样纠缠在社会环境中。我们建议恢复的表达与权力动态相协调，因为它们在决定饮食失调和恢复的哪些表现将被视为“合法”以及哪些恢复途径将受到尊重时发挥作用。我们认为，饮食失调的康复与生活本身一样复杂和混乱，并且同样纠缠在社会环境中。我们建议恢复的表达与权力动态相协调，因为它们在决定饮食失调和恢复的哪些表现将被视为“合法”以及哪些恢复途径将受到尊重时发挥作用。