This chapter rejects dominant understandings of eating disorders as symptoms of illness. I argue that the women experience an overwhelming desire to clean and purify their bodies of child sexual abuse. This is central to rituals of purification that the women practise, which includes disordered eating and self-harm. The women’s poetry and drawings help to facilitate the expression of emotions that may not have been realised through language. The chapter demonstrates the multiple ways the women cleanse and purify their bodies after child sexual abuse and sexual trauma has occurred. This enabled the women to attempt to disconnect themselves from their experiences of abuse, from relationships, memories and emotions. The women’s self-harming practices are also demonstrated as reproducing the pain experienced during sexual trauma.