Bringing an Eating Disorder to the Thanksgiving Table
If you’re struggling with an eating disorder or disordered eating and are feeling concerned about the upcoming holidays, we need you to know a few things.
Topic: eating disorders
You Are Sick Enough
“Some people had childhoods much worse than yours. Yours wasn’t really traumatic.”
A Farewell Letter to Anorexia
At first, you were polite and you did not intrude, you gave me some tips to avoid certain foods.
Trying Again
That’s the thing about anorexia, you never believe you are sick enough.
“I’m Not Hungry”
It was hard to face the truth that no matter how fast the number on the scale dropped, how long I could go starving myself, or how small my waistline got, it would never be enough.
How My Recovery Started With Just 20 Minutes
The thing that I was the best at controlling was what food I put into my body and how much of it I chose to consume and when.
Don’t Let The Pot Boil Over
I felt as though I lost control of my life so I turned to a different aspect of my body that I could control—what I was eating.
Healing Happens Together
My eating disorder no longer lived in the places where only I noticed its existence, it had begun to leak into places I never intended it to go
You Can’t Control Happy
I was trying to expel things to make room for happiness. But the control never led to the happiness or relief I expected.
Banana Slices
I turned my pain into a quirky trait and a joke.
Restarting the Recovery Clock
I watched those ten years on my recovery clock decrease back down to zero. It felt as though every bit of hard work that I’d sewn into my recovery had been undone.
Pregnancy and Eating Disorder Recovery
Pregnancy is a demanding process, but it’s also nearly enough to trigger a recovered anorexic like me into a frenzy.
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