Your weight is the least interesting thing about you… Author Unknown How much as your life changed in three and a half years? Have you moved? Had your heart broken? Met a new love? Gotten married? Had a baby? In three years I’ve been to San Francisco and seen the Golden Gate Bridge. I’ve watched …
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Dear Family & Friends, Some of you knew me before I was weight restored, back when the word ‘anorexia’ was stamped on my body in the form of sharp bones and sallow skin. I’ve come a long way since then. You can see it in my smile and the way I embrace life. I lost …
February 5th, 2008 is the day I left the residential home where I was healing from my eating disorder and embarking on recovery without professional supervision. I was 16, weight restored, and ready to re-enter high-school. Some people believe that having an eating disorder is like having an addiction to alcohol. Once in recovery, always …
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I’ve read a handful of fiction narratives regarding eating disorder recovery but haven’t found many written by authors who have struggled themselves. My book, The Kaleidoscope Girl, [fiction] dives deep into the mind of an anorexia sufferer. Writing fiction about eating disorder recovery helped me in the early years of my personal recovery and The Kaleidoscope Girl is filled with real-life eating disorder messiness.
Living with this illness is like being on a sinking boat and not having the physical strength to jump into the lifeboat. It’s like being on a doomed airplane with a parachute strapped to your back but your fingers are unable to grasp the cord and pull yourself to safety. The scariest thing might be that you’re not sure you even want to jump in that lifeboat or pull that cord.
Ten years of eating disorder recovery, where have you gone? My recovery has looked so different with each year. At the start, I ate too much because I was so fearful of giving myself even an inch, afraid I might tumble a mile. After several years I learned some portion control on my (ahem) ice-cream and cookie …
Have you ever avoided doing something you were told regardless of being told: “it’ll be good for you?” You think, what do they know? I know me. I’m doing it! For Example:You should go to bed early. It’s good for you.Eat more greens and less sugar. It’s good for you.I must admit, there is a …
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