I always have always been able to run long distances. It’s something I used to hate, but have actually learned to love. The key to running distance, is you have to keep a good pace. You can’t try to run really hard, as you will tire too fast, you can’t run really slow or you [...]
FAMILY AND EATING DISORDERS–WHOEVER SAID BLOOD WAS THICKER THAN WATER WAS NOT RELATED TO ME.
I was driving to work today, and I saw something that gave me a quick flashback of my childhood. It was a station wagon, and in the back were 3 little girls. My two younger sisters and I spent more time in the back of my Mom’s Blue Ford Station wagon then I can remember. [...]
RECOVERING FROM AN EATING DISORDER | I HAVE A DREAM
Whoever said “be careful what you wish for, you just might get it”, knew what they were talking about. I am a walking, talking, disco-ball-in-heels example of the fact that if you desire something—if you truly want it badly enough—it can happen. Let me backtrack a few years. It’s 2004 and I am lying in [...]
INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES….I HAVE A FEELING…DEEP THOUGHTS BY MISS MELISS
THINTERVENTION of the day. Starving yourself to fit into some skinny jeans (the ones you think will make you happy), sweating for 6 hours on the treadmill (the one you think will answer your prayers), paying attention to that number on the scale (perfect little digits to success), and hating yourself for not being her [...]
MENTAL HEALTH……WHAT’S YOUR FREAK?
The other day I was having lunch with a friend who has OCD as he sat there and sanitized his hands 20 times, he goes ”God I wish I could just be normal like everybody else.” It made me laugh, and choke on my Iced latte a bit. He was like “what?”… I said “look over [...]
ALL ABOUT EATING DISORDERS…SHEARE MADNESS!!!!
I have had every color hair imaginable, partly due to the fact that I am not a beautician and left to my own devices managed to come up with orange, yellow, green, and one time a really bad shade of purple kool-aid. I have also been known to pick up a pair of scissors and merge a Pat Benatar into [...]
BODY IMAGE…..MONKEY SEE MONKEY DATE
A really good friend of mine has been trying to get me to join an online dating site, as my love life these days is something to be reckoned with. I finally agreed to try one out, and have to say that is one hell of a rabbit hole I just fell down. I have been for the past [...]
EATING DISORDER RECOVERY–I BELIEVE
I believe Some people think you have to go that extra mile to be a nice person. Not really, it’s actually very simple to show some respect. It doesn’t take super-natural powers to not be judgmental and lovely and last time I checked you don’t have to take four years of college to earn a [...]
ANOREXIA AND DATING: LOVE IS BLIND AND SHE HAS LOTS OF BAGGAGE
Dating and Anorexia I have no problem telling people I am in recovery for an eating disorder. I mean for goodness sake, I put my whole story in the middle of the fishbowl a very long time ago. Google my name and you can see the ugly, the bad, and all the sad. I have [...]
EATING DISORDERS RECOVERY: IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO “GET A LIFE!”
As many people by now know, I have had a pretty hard-knock life. I certainly haven’t lived my life in a traditional way. As a matter of fact, you could probably say I took a short left at “traditional” and then took a hard right to pretty “effed up.” A therapist I had once [...]