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Cultivating my Support Team
Building a support team is a strong foundation for recovery. Past experience, and 8 Keys to Recovery From an Eating Disorder, taught me the significance of working with professionals who create a safe…
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Reaching Out to a Person Instead of the Eating Disorder
April 3, 2015 I had a lot of feelings that I could have drowned in food, but I chose to confront them by talking with Steve. It was hard and uncomfortable, and I…
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Cognitive Distortions and Pervasive Anti-Fat Bias
Trigger Warning: Anti-fat and weight bias. Eating disorder thoughts and behaviors. Anti-fatness is dangerous. Anti-fatness (or fatphobia or weight stigma) is used to discriminate, oppress, denigrate, blame and harm. Weight stigma is so…
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Grandma Martha
Oh how I LOVE my Grandma Martha and MISS her. On March 12, 2014, my paternal Grandmother, Grandma Martha, passed away surrounded by people who love her dearly. My Dad, my Mom, and…
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The Vulnerability of a Daydream
Trigger warning: Internalized fatphobia, talk of eating disorder thoughts and behaviors. On March 25, 2015, I felt good. Feeling good can be just as vulnerable as feeling bad, especially if you’re not use…
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Doing the Work
Trigger Warning: Internalized fatphobia and weight bias, talk of eating disorder thoughts and behaviors. In the early stages of recovery, doing the work felt like planting seeds in a garden. You buy the…
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Telling My Loved Ones
I felt better after I told Steve, like a weight had been lifted. He said he loved me would support anything I needed. I told him I didn’t quite know what I needed…
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“Recovery is a Full-Time Job, Until it Isn’t”
Trigger Warning: Diet talk, internalized fatphobia. “Recovery is a full time job, until it isn’t.” Kristy Amadio, CCI certified eating disorder recovery coach and founder of Recovered Living. Once I realized I was…
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The Afternoon I Chose to Live
Trigger Warning: Eating disorder thoughts and behaviors, internalized fatphobia. Life-changing moments rarely materialize in an instant. They are often predicated by dozens of seemingly inconsequential moments or even other potentially life-changing revelations. To…
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Spiralling Towards Recovery
Trigger Warning: Eating disorder thoughts and behaviors. I established a writing practice in January and two and a half months later it started to pay off. I recognize that seems like an…
