by Lauren Marsh | Aug 6, 2014 | Eating Disorder Poems, Eating Disorders Help, Recovery Uncensored
My life is my canvas. I can create my life to be whatever it is that I want it to be. Right now it is sad. It is bittersweet. It is lonely. And I am okay with that. My pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses my understanding. (quote by...
by Lauren Marsh | Sep 25, 2013 | Eating Disorder Poems, Recovery Uncensored
Here is a poem I wrote when I was at my worst…rock bottom and feeling very depressed. It felt like the eating disorder was overcoming me and I was powerless to stop it. I was so lost, so sick and felt so alone… June 5, 2007 “Miserable going...
by Lauren Marsh | Sep 19, 2013 | Eating Disorder Poems, Recovery Uncensored
Enjoy this recently written poem. Sometimes I forget how awful it was being back in the eating disorder. It controlled me – I was a slave to it at my worst, and most people don’t understand what that’s like. This poem especially illustrates how...
by Lauren Marsh | Jul 28, 2012 | Eating Disorders Help, Healing Tools, Recovery Uncensored
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...
by Lauren Marsh | Jun 24, 2012 | Eating Disorder Quotes, Recovery Uncensored
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.”...
by Lauren Marsh | Jun 22, 2012 | Eating Disorder Poems, Eating Disorders Help, Recovery Uncensored
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...
