EATING DISORDER AWARENESS WEEK

This week is Canadian Eating Disorder Awareness Week. In years past I remember wishing I could speak up more at this time. I would sit here wondering if there would ever come a time when I was fully open about my bulimia (to be that seemed impossible). It was so frustrating to remain silent but I was paralyzed with fear. Well this year, I have no excuse.
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I hope to use this week to raise awareness, and share more of my own experience in hopes that it helps others feel less alone (and maybe next year someone out there might be ready to share their own story). I know how it feels to have something inside you, that you know one day you want to share. The truth is, we need your story! No one’s journey with an Eating Disorder is the same and you have no idea who you might help by sharing what you have gone through. There is no need to rush this process, but if you feel a tiny seed of motivation growing in you, a small nudge to “speak up”…trust it. Use that as a goal to keep moving you forward in your recovery…one day your story will may change someones life…it may help hundreds, thousands…millions!! You have no idea the impact you may have, and trust that if I can do it….you can too. Sharing our story is one the scariest things we will ever do. I will never forget my first post on Instagram. How nervous I was. I was shaking, I had tears in my eyes, I felt sick to my stomach…but I knew I had to get it out there - keeping it inside me was keeping me sick. Your story is needed. You are needed.
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Eating Disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness - a fact not many know. This illness affects so many people (not just teen girls) and the more light we shed on this topic, the less shame all those that suffer will feel