The fashion industry has a reputation for being cutthroat. Any viewing of America’s Next Top Model shows that the pressures and rejection involved in the fashion industry can cause women to tear up. But according to former Australian Vogue editor Kristie Clements, fashion...
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While certain substances like nicotine and narcotics have physically addictive properties, one can develop a psychological addiction to just about anything. While pro-anorexia sites, that feature thinspiration content, can seem horrific and harming to the uninitiated, these...
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During an interview with iVillage’s Kelly Wallace, First Lady Michelle Obama discussed the topic of body image. It’s my hope that her words will serve to inspire fellow parents to adopt her perspective. She spoke candidly that when discussing food with her daughters...
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When struggling with an eating disorder, numbers can feel like your enemies. It can seem that everywhere you look numbers are taunting you, judging you and diminishing your self-image. Whether it’s the number of calories in the sandwich you just ate or the number on the...
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We have all had tragedy, trauma, or hardships happen to us in life. It’s what I like to call a “situation.” A situation to me is an event, followed by an outcome. Life likes to throw us so many curve balls and loves to do it when we least expect it. All animals and humans [...]
I was on my way downstairs two nights ago in the middle of the night. I needed a glass of water, and yes have this bad habit of living on the edge of walking down in the dark. The next thing I know, I tripped on something causing me to fall flat on my face. [...]
I remember my alarm clock going off at 3 in the morning. I would get the sickest feeling in my stomach as I knew as tired as I felt I had to get up. The coldness from the winter air would hit my skin. I would stumble around in the dark looking for the light, [...]
Ever since I was little the word “Skinny” has been a major part of my vocabulary. Nowadays it’s no different because as a society we seem to be obsessed with it as well. We have Skinny jeans, Skinny Girl Cocktails, Skinny Cow ice cream. We associate that word with so much. Like it makes us [...]
THIS BLOG IS DEDICATED TO BOSTON I was talking to several people the other day in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing. None of them had eating disorders but were expressing the horrible feeling they got when they heard the news. How they were just sick to their stomach and just couldn’t [...]
I have never been a pretty crier. I am not one of those girls whose make-up stays in tact and afterwards nobody would possibly know. Nope I am an all out black mascara running down my face, swollen face, puffy eyed looking train wreck. Has that stopped me from crying my whole life?…Um No. I [...]
One of the hardest parts of getting over an eating disorder is earning back people’s trust. Lets face it, this disease does nothing to gain any friends, but rather enemies. When you truly decide in your heart that you want to get better, it is truly a gift. So how do you earn that trust [...]
I was at a friend’s house the other day and she had some leftovers from an event she had thrown. I was talking to her, and without even thinking about it started serving myself some of it, and sat down and started eating. After about five minutes some other people came in and we all [...]
The fashion industry has a reputation for being cutthroat. Any viewing of America’s Next Top Model shows that the pressures and rejection involved in the fashion industry can cause women to tear up. But according to former Australian Vogue editor Kristie Clements, fashion models are doing more than crying into their tissues, they are eating [...]
If I asked you how many times you saw an advertisement today, what would you say? You probably would lose track by the time you poured your morning cup of coffee. In all reality the average adult is exposed on average to 250-1000 advertisements per day. For children and teenagers it could be considerably more. [...]
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