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How To Reach Out For Support In Eating Disorder Recovery
Last week when I was having a session with one of the women I was mentoring, she asked me a question that really made me think... “How did you learn how to let others support you in your eating disorder recovery?” It really took me back a second, because...
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Cleaning Out Your Eating Disordered House
I HAVE BEEN cleaning out my house this past week and it has felt so good!!! Cleaning out the closets, desks, and basement just getting rid of things that I don’t need and organizing the rest. I’ve taken bags upon bags to Goodwill, given bags to my family and I...
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You Inspire Me
You inspire me with your courage, your determination and your commitment to overcoming the eating disorder. Not only overcoming but believing and truly understanding what it means to be free. You inspire me because you don’t and won’t ever give up in your...
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How To Get Clear About 100% Full Eating Disorder Recovery
A lot of times in our eating disorder recovery we are focused on the wrong things! We put so much energy into thinking about NOT binging that it actually is counter-productive because it just makes you want to binge MORE! When you are thinking about food, obsessing...
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3 Things You Absolutely Must Know In Your Eating Disorder Recovery
I want to explain the absolute basic truths that you need to know in your personal recovery from eating disorders - whether you're in recovery for bulimia, anorexia, binge eating, ednos - it all applies. I wish there were someone there for me when I was going through...
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New Beginnings In Your Eating Disorder Recovery?
Today, my dad got remarried and it got me thinking about new beginnings and starting over in our eating disorder recovery. My dad was married for almost 30 years when he and my mom got divorced years ago. Now he is starting over, starting a life with his new wife...
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Ready To Break Up With Your Eating Disorder + Break Open?
I got a phone call this morning from a dear old friend. It was early, about 7:30 am, and I haven’t talked to her in a few months. I smiled when I saw her name on the caller ID and picked it up with my cheerful good morning voice. She obviously was not having...
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Do You Believe in FULL Eating Disorder Recovery + Your Self?
Why is it that we run away from who we are? Why is it so hard to just be in the moment and be accepting of what is? At times, my mind races to find new things to grasp onto, new puzzles to solve, new ideas to learn. I find it challenging sometimes to slow down and...
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The “Shoulds” + Moving On In Eating Disorder Recovery
I've been lost for words lately. It's been over a week since I've posted on the blog. I don't know why I've been so "out there" Sometimes things happen in our lives and we go off course. We get off track and then we think, "what happened?" I know this used to happen a...
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Eating Disorder Quotes by Eating Disorder Patients
Here are some selected eating disorder quotes by close friends, humble souls that I spent many days and nights with in the halls of the inpatient eating disorder treatment center. These are taken from a journal entitled "A drink of hope comes from Love." Yes, these...
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Healing Eating Disorder Poems For The Soul
For me, the eating disorder behaviors were a distraction. I wasn't happy. I didn't feel fulfilled or content. I hated myself. I wanted to disappear and scream at the top of my lungs at the same time. I wanted things to change and things to stay the same at the same...
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Eating Disorder Help With Relationships: A Real Man
When I began my eating disorder recovery, I realized that I didn't really know what a "healthy" relationship was. I didn't know how to create boundaries within my relationships or ask for what I really needed. I was afraid of intimacy and extremely uncomfortable with...
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Eating Disorder Quotes: 5 Minutes To Love Your Self
In the infinity of life where I am, all is perfect, whole, and complete. I recognize my body as a good friend. Each cell in my body has Divine Intelligence. I listen to what it tells me, and know that its advice is valid. I am always safe, and...
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Eating Disorder Lies Revealed!!!
Raw Ramblings of My Recovery for Bulimia. Some content could be triggering/disturbing, so please read at your own risk. These are actual journal entries written when I was deep in the depths of the eating disorder, depression and anxiety, trying...
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Eating Disorder Poems
In the throes of the eating disorder madness and depression, and especially when I began my recovery for bulimia, I wrote a lot. Journaling, writing eating disorder poems and free writing was a way for me to express myself. Here are some selected eating disorder...
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Allowing And Perfection in Eating Disorder Recovery
Allowing is the key that lets it all happen. When we open up and allow, it opens the doors for wonderful and *magical* things to come into our lives! It is my nature to want to be perfect. It seems I'm always striving for perfection no matter what I'm doing....
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Sexual Abuse And Forgiveness: Eating Disorder Recovery Uncensored
Raw Ramblings of My Recovery for Bulimia. Some content could be triggering/disturbing, so please read at your own risk. These are actual journal entries written when I was deep in the depths of the eating disorder, depression and anxiety, trying...
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Bulimia Recovery Uncensored: Teeth Dreams and Breaking ED’s Shell
Raw Ramblings of My Recovery for Bulimia. Day Five Some content could be triggering/disturbing, so please read at your own risk. These are actual journal entries written when I was deep in the depths of the eating disorder, depression and anxiety,...
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Love, Fear, And Recovery For Bulimia
Fear and LOVE. What do fear and Love have to do with your recovery for bulimia or anorexia or binge eating? Well, lots. I could actually sum up full recovery for bulimia in two simple points: Overcoming fears (Challenging limiting beliefs)...
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Eating Disorder Poems: Lights Camera Action. Fly.
Raw Ramblings of My Recovery for Bulimia. Day Four Some content could be triggering/disturbing, so please read at your own risk. These are actual journal entries written when I was deep in the depths of the eating disorder, depression and anxiety,...
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Recovery For Bulimia Uncensored: The Letter
Raw Ramblings of My Recovery for Bulimia. Day Three. Some content could be triggering/disturbing, so please read at your own risk. These are actual journal entries written when I was deep in the depths of the eating disorder, depression and...
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Recovery For Bulimia: A Letter From Your Body
Hi, it's me, your Body. Do you see me? You act like I'm invisible. Do you know that I love you? I will always love you. I haven't betrayed you, even though you feel that way. I want you to feel me. I want you to know that you're alive. I want you to know that you're...
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Letting Go In Bulimia Recovery
What does it mean to face your fears, to let go and truly surrender? I've been struggling with this - again - as I have many times in my recovery from bulimia. Ever since I began my bulimia recovery, I have viewed the world as a process. Life is a test and we are to...
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Day Two Mia/Ana Uncensored: Raw Recovery For Bulimia
Raw Ramblings of my Former Eating Disordered Self Day Two Some content could be triggering/disturbing, so please read at your own risk. These are actual journal entries written when I was deep in the depths of the eating disorder, depression and...
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Mia/Ana Uncensored: Raw Recovery For Bulimia Ramblings
Raw Ramblings of My Former Eating Disorder Shell. Day One. Warning: Some content could be triggering/disturbing, so please read at your own risk. These are actual journal entries written when I was deep in the depths of the eating disorder,...
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Introducing Mia/Ana Uncensored: My Eating Disorder Recovery
I’m really excited that you’re here. I’m so glad that you've found me. So I've got this big brown box full of journals. I've been writing pretty much my whole life. I write about everything especially when I realized that I had an eating disorder. I wrote a...
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Conversation With My Eating Disorder Voice
Having a dialog with the eating disorder voice is one of the most powerful exercises that you can do as part of your treatment for bulimia. When I was getting inpatient treatment for bulimia, I didn't learn this simple exercise and this idea wasn't really addressed....
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I’m In Recovery For Bulimia But I Don’t Want To Let ED Go!
A question I get asked a lot is: In recovery for bulimia, "What happens if I still really want the eating disorder and the eating disorder behaviors?" Many women in eating disorder recovery - even though they really want to recover - still feel as if a part of them...
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Transform Your Thoughts With These Eating Disorder Quotes
Part of recovering from an eating disorder is becoming aware of our thinking. Most of us who have the eating disorder voice eventually recognize how negative it is! When I began treatment for bulimia, I was overwhelmed because I realized how destructive my negative...
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Is Fear Holding You Back In Your Bulimia Recovery?
Fears. We all have them. We don't want to admit them. They creep in when we least expect them. Is Fear Holding You Back In Your Recovery From Bulimia? (or Anorexia, Binge Eating, Compulsive Overeating, EDNOS, etc.) This is an interesting question to ask...
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