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.
Topic: eating disorders
Sobriety, Introspection, and the Problem With Resolutions
Most of my "ideals" or things folks call "resolutions" around this time of year aren't actually what I want for myself but are what I assume others want for me.
The Next Right Thing
My stomach is full, which feels wrong, but I know it’s not.
The Day I Stopped Eating
I knew then that things would never be the same from that point forward: the anorexia as resistance, the depression as loss of control, the fleeing to another country as delusion, the dying and then not dying and then dying and then not dying.
You Have Not Seen Everything That You Will Ever See
How Running Helped Heal My Eating Disorder
Amidst all the things I couldn’t control, there before me was something I could: my weight.
Healing My Relationship With Food
When Your Eating Disorder Doesn’t Have a Name
My eating disorder looks quiet to the outside world.
Eating Disorder Recovery: The Beautiful Part of Falling
What I have done throughout my recovery is not only find a way for me to have a better relationship with food—although that is a major part of the process—but to also see the roots beneath the tree of my disorder, helping me to unveil the bigger picture.
Learning to Call My Body Home
I was always just a little too much, even when there wasn’t much there for me to even be.
Learning To Love My Body in a Society That’s Telling Me Not To
The relationship with my body is a complicated one—with ups and downs, celebrations, and resentment, but as of late, a lot of acceptance and contentment too.
The Lies My Eating Disorder Told Me
Eating disorders blur the image of who we are.
