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 [...]
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EATING DISORDERS ARTICLES | NOTHING LAST FOREVER EXCEPT RECOVERY
I get asked the question quite often if I am fully recovered from my eating disorder. A lot of people assume that I am, as I basically went from being almost dead, to now living quite a productive life. In all honesty, I used to think that I was, but now I know for a [...]
YOU TALKIN TO ME?
A lot of people I know like to give their Eating Disorder a name. They call him ED. They treat him very similar to a real person with a real voice and a real personality. People with eating disorders are not schizophrenic. They don’t hear voices, or see people. However there is something inside [...]
NEDA….SHOUT SHOUT LET IT ALL OUT
It’s NEDA week, and I can’t help but always feel pressured during this week. I feel like I should run up and down the streets or be on top of some platform talking about it. Perhaps I should be doing a walk or eating fancy shrimp somewhere at a conference handing out my business [...]
SURVIVING AN EATING DISORDER….DOES THIS BLOG MAKE ME LOOK FAT?
If somebody handed you something to really yummy looking to drink, but then told you the name of it was Cancer, how quickly would you be to drink it? It’s not that the drink is actually cancer, but just associating it with a deadly disease could make it far from appetizing. This is how I [...]
SURVIVING AN EATING DISORDER…..DAMAGED GOODS
I remember the day I checked out of a major hospital in New York. I had been there for a year under the care of a prominent and famous doctor who treats eating disorders. I had been re-feeding for almost 350 days, half of them with the help of a feeding tube. As these nurses, [...]
EATING DISORDERS AND SOCIETY…PLAYBOY BUNNIES DON’T LIVE IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
I grew up as a young girl whose aspirations where never put on what I had in brains, but what I had in body. I was raised by my mother who once told me that I could never be too rich or too thin. While most of my friends in high school were taking the [...]
EATING DISORDER RECOVERY: TRIGGER WAS JUST A HORSE
As someone who has struggled with an eating disorder most of her life, I often get asked about how I deal with triggers in the outside world. People with eating disorders often use that word “trigger” because it can take one word, one pair of jeans, or one trip down the cookie aisle at [...]
EATING DISORDER RECOVERY…..LEAN ON ME
You are at the mall, and you just can’t help and not keep your eyes fixed at the woman walking towards you. She is alarmingly thin, and it is causing not only you to stare, but everyone else around you as well. Her bones are protruding through her thin sweater, and her legs resemble two [...]
EATING DISORDERS BEHAVIOR…..STAY THIRSTY MY FRIENDS
Eating Disorders Behavior: Water Water is one of life’s most essential elements. The average person is told to drink 8 fluid ounces of water a day for optimum health. Athletes, of course, require double that if not more. Without water our bodies would not be able to survive. However, what you probably didn’t know is [...]