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“As someone who is recovered, I’ve often wished I could bottle the feeling of freedom from an eating disorder and give it as a gift to someone who is still sick. Just for a day. I’d let the person wake up without a single eating disorder thought or plan in her head and walk around all day like that.
He could pass a mirror and not have a meltdown.
She could have a cupcake and then have another one if she wanted it without feeling guilt or touching her stomach. She could stop after one or two cupcakes and not feel the experience won’t be complete until a box of a dozen is empty. She could visit the bathroom afterwards but only because nature called, not her eating disorder.
She could receive a phone call with bad news and give herself time to let it sink in and formulate a plan, knowing that she can handle it.
He could lay his head down that night, knowing that his recovery was worth fighting for and possible to achieve.
She would begin to understand what I think is one of the biggest secrets and surprises about recovery: it has so little to do with food.
It’s really about learning life lessons that everyone needs to know.”
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- CRC Health
"It may be a difficult challenge to find a way to let go of your anxieties. Yet it is far easier than allowing those anxieties to continue poisoning your spirit as they multiply upon themselves."
- Ralph Marston
Anorexia: what you want?
"You can’t be partially committed to recovery and live a complete life."
- Grey Thinking. com (via summergirl88)
(Source: fulfilledd)
"The disease and recovery is like an elevator - you can get off at any floor. It is not a pre-requisite to go down to the depths of hell in order to pull yourself back up."
Eating Disorder Recovery Quotes
"I will choose what is really important to me before I run out of time."
"In an attempt to escape reality
I put on the sunglasses,
Because my eyes were dazzled by life.
I grew used to their comforting dimness
And it was only when, many years later,
I remembered I was wearing them,
And found the courage to take them off,
That I realised what I had missed."
- Sophie Large
Your Own Kind Of Girl-
Clare Bowditch & the new slang.
Chocolate- you’ve got chocolate on your mouth.
Oh you long to be like other girls. But your not gonna be like another girl. “some other girl”. You’ve been reading magazines again- comparing you’re sweet body to the bodies of nature’s longest ones, smoothed out with airbrushed guns.
You’ve been wondering when the answer is gonna come. It’s not gonna come, till you realise, you are fine. You’re more than enough. The real world needs real girls to love themselves enough.
I went on my first diet when I was eight years old…10,11,12 through to 21, when I came undone & I thought, “Somebody tell me that I’m more than this?” So I understand the thoughts get out of hand. I still know the shame of falling for that same old shit, time time again, that there’s some “Simple Answer!” to the complex life “it’s only $29.99”
So there “They” sit high in their towers writing lists about what women need, with no regard, no understanding, no real care about the pain they breed. My hope for you, my darling girl, be brave & build a dream in your own size, cause otherwise, your buying crap that you don’t need to feed a world that will not feed you. Its not what feeds you, my love.
Chocolate- you’ve got chocolate on your mouth.
Oh you long to be like other girls, but you weren’t born to be “some other girl”. You’re gonna be your own kind of girl.
(Source: the-healing-nest)
There's A Hole In My Sidewalk. By Portia Nelson
I.
I walk down a street and there’s a big hole.
I don’t see it and fall into it.
It’s dark and hopeless and it takes me a long time to find my way out.
It’s not my fault!
II.
I walk down the same street.
There’s a big hole and I can see it, but I still fall in.
It’s dark and hopeless and it…
(Source: the-healing-nest)
