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 [...]
RECOVERING FROM AN EATING DISORDER…LIVE AND LET DIE
The best definition I ever heard for “forgiveness” was that you don’t have to forget what someone has done to you, but you have to let go of the hope that the past can be changed. I have been hurt by a lot of people in my life, and I let that hurt start living [...]
Anorexia Treatment: As I Lay Dying…
It was mid afternoon, I think. Although at the time I probably didn’t even know what time of day it was. I know it wasn’t late night though, because if it was, I would have been in the middle of a binge, hiding away from the sun, waiting til most of the world was asleep [...]
Eating Disorders Treatment Options: Focusing on Health
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 Sasha and Malia she doesn’t speak in terms of which foods make [...]
EATING DISORDERS AND THE HOLIDAYS | TURKEY SURVIVAL 101
And so it begins … The Holiday season is here. “Over the river and through the woods, to grandmother’s house we go” If anybody knows the trepidation somebody with an Eating Disorder feels as the “crepe paper turkeys” and “cornucopias” come out it is me. We don’t see family, we don’t see gratefulness … we [...]
Eating Disorders Blog: Physical Intimacy and Anorexia Nervosa
When a woman or man struggles with anorexia nervosa it can have a wide-range of effects on their romantic relationships. Many individuals diagnosed with anorexia are already in relationships, others might have the desire to start new relationships. But without proper treatment, an individual’s anorexia can make it difficult to establish intimacy. How is Intimacy [...]
CONSEQUENCES OF AN EATING DISORDER… TAKING THE GOLD TO THE GRAVE.
Weak, brittle, malnourished, defeated and hopeless are hardly words one would associate with an Olympic athlete, but in the last few breaths of her life, this is exactly where once world renounced American gymnast Christy Henrich was at. As she lay in a hospital bed in the early 90′s completely ravaged by anorexia and bulimia, one couldn’t help but [...]
RECOVERING FROM AN EATING DISORDER….I WAS LOST BUT NOW I AM FOUND
Eating Disorder Recovery and Grief The recent tragic shooting in Denver, has left the most bitter taste in my mouth as I keep swallowing all the news. It just disturbed me greatly as I am from Colorado and my grandparents lived just a few blocks from that theater in Aurora. I used to go to that theater [...]
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. [...]
EATING DISORDERS…..I’M NOT SPOILED YOU ARE JUST VERY ACCOMMODATING.
One of the reasons I was able to go on living with Anorexia and Bulimia for so long, has something to do with me not wanting to get better, but I also believe it was because I was allowed to get away with not getting better. Every single time I would mess up, no [...]