The Kaleidoscope Girl
What if your reflection was a lie?
Fresh out of treatment for her eating disorder, seventeen-year-old Ariel uses her journal to recount the perilous days before Hurricane Irma made landfall in Florida. The days she writes about are fragmented images of her past, like the beads at the bottom of a kaleidoscope that make a colorful picture—or a dizzying nightmare. As Ariel recalls those days, her eating disorder causes her to teeter on the edge of recovery and relapse . . . and she’s unsure of which side she’d like to fall.
Ariel recalls the love, fear, and rejection that were packed into the days before Irma arrived. As she writes, the nagging voice of her eating disorder taunts her, tempting her to view herself through its distorted lens again. She’s not sure she’s strong enough to fight it this time around. She’s not sure if she wants to.
But if Ariel continues to write the events in her past—the first death of her disorder—then maybe she can rediscover a strength she had lost in the process. And shatter the distorted lenses once and for all.
*Note: This is a fictional narrative about a girl struggling with eating disorder recovery written by an author who’s been in recovery for 11+ years.
Girls Like Me: 12 Short Bible Studies About Biblical Women
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Have you ever wanted to read the Bible more but didn’t know where to start?
Have you ever wanted to relate to what you read in the Bible on a personal level?
It’s not easy to find commonalities between us and Mary the mother of Jesus or Esther the queen. But what if we were more like them than we thought? What if their stories mirror our own lives? What if we were as trusting as Mary or as daring as Esther and we didn’t even realize it?
Girls Like Me is for the young woman who wants to develop a Bible reading habit but also relate to what she reads. It’s an easy-to-read devotional for the student, new wife, new mom, or new Christian.
Girls Like Me will challenge you to read your Bible more, discover how your life is similar to those of the women in the Bible, and challenge you to live a life of meaning and purpose.