Recovery language and tools
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Creating Space for Choice
An eating disorder is not a choice. What makes eating disorder recovery so excruciatingly hard is that recovery involves choice. Since the eating disorder won’t give you a choice, recovery demands the painstaking…
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but… Recovery is hard AF
Recovery is just as hard as it feels right now. I remember feeling like recovery was too hard because every time I tried to confront or challenge a behavior, the urge to use…
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Episodic Depression
I wrote the blog post below over two years ago while in the thick of a depression. I didn’t post it back then for a myriad of reasons, but mostly because I was…
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Life as a Lazy Perfectionist
I have tried to write the final post in my Food: Friend or Frenemy series for over two months (it took a solid four months to de-weaponize food and come to peace with it). I lost…
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Hamilton
Dear Friends, I can’t believe it’s been over four months since my last post. So much happened and I look forward to sharing it all with you. But before I do, I…
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The Beginning of a New Journey
Last November, I started this blog because I wanted an outlet to share my story. It seems like no one ever talks about eating disorders, yet so many people have them or know someone who does. There…
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I Forgave, but I Will Not Forget
*TRIGGER WARNING: I talk about sexual assault. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Several weeks ago, I started writing…
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Recovered Isn’t A Fairytale
Affirmations are important. Another tool in my anxiety management toolbox. Little mental reminders that reinforce who I am and what is important. As I progress through recovery my affirmations evolve. While it may not seem like one, reminding…
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Seeing the Forest for the Trees
Last week a friend showed me some pictures from his vacation to San Diego. The above picture immediately grabbed my attention. I loved it because the way the light shines through the trees reminded me how important it is…
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The Most Compelling Reason to be Recovered is Me. It was Always Me.
I could probably write a Game of Thrones length series of novels with all my eating disorder thoughts over the years. For a very long time I had no idea they were “eating disorder” thoughts. I just thought…
