Tag: eatingdisorder
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Right Where We Are
It’s four am, and you look in the mirror, sick and tired of doing the thing you swore you absolutely would no longer do. You woke up with the best intentions, but by the end of the day, you’ve fallen flat on your face…again. Why?!! Sound familiar? I know this all too well. It may…
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Why It’s So Damn Hard to Recover from an Eating Disorder
Anorexia recovery is a conundrum. It’s kind of an oxymoron — like jumbo shrimp, or tiny elephant. How do you recover from a disease where the only way out is to love yourself, but the disease itself dictates that you hate yourself? This post isn’t depressing. I promise. I’m just setting the stage 🙂 But…
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The Importance of Joy
Joy. Let’s talk about it. Because when you’re recovering from an eating disorder, or just finding your way through the obstacle course of life, I think finding joy is something that is vitally important. When I was in my anorexia, joy was nonexistent. I’ve said it time and time again that ED is a damn…
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Going Undercover
So yesterday, I did something pretty crazy. I went undercover. Yep, I pulled a Harriet the Spy and went on a real life spy mission. My best friend is actually a forensic psychologist, and basically that means that her life is literally an episode of CSI. Anyway, she had to go on an undercover gig,…
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All He Wants to Do
Do you know how loved you are? Now, before you hit the snooze button, just hear me out. I always shy away from writing posts like these, because in all honesty, I feel like they’re usually suuuuuper cheesy, but sometimes, you just need to hear it. And tonight, for me, I do. I find that so…
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Headlines and Hashtags
Recovery is a funny thing. When we first start out, we bolt out of the gate. We’re sprinting ahead at full speed. YEAH! I can do this! It’s full speed ahead, tackling this fear food. Then that fear food. We’re meeting calorie goals and increasing supplements week after week. And, aside from the usual freak…
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What I Learned from Getting Hit On at Whole Foods, and No, It’s Not What You Think
Alright, I’m going to get this out of the way right now: NO, this is not some lame attempt at a humble brag, like “Oh look at me, I’m getting hit on because I’m so amazing.” This is not some “toot my own horn” post. I think you know me better than that by now…
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Prayer of a Broken Pray-er
This post scares me. I’m going to be more vulnerable on here than I have ever been before. Let’s talk about…prayer. I think a lot of people shy away from it because they feel that they don’t know how to do it. They don’t know what to say, how to start, how to prevent their…
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Loving a Horse
Equine therapy. A concept that, before my anorexia, I didn’t even knew existed. Therapy…with a horse? WTF, mate? But it was part of my program at inpatient, and in all honestly, it really did help me a lot, even though I may not have wanted to admit it at the time. I recently went horseback…
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We’re on His Wall
Grey’s Anatomy is a great show. I love it, I really do. And if you haven’t watched from the beginning, I highly HIGHLY suggest it. There’s a formula to the show. In every episode, there’s a patient. They’ve either been maimed by an inanimate object, have a car part or something protruding through their abdomen,…