FREE EATING DISORDER RESOURCES
I still feel the need to share pieces of my story and what helped me along the way. I still feel the need to do what I can to help others navigating this tricky, long, winding, difficult and lonely road. So I created the list below…
WHY YOU NEED TO SEE MOVEMENT AS MEDICINE
I had a messed up relationship with “exercise” for many years. I ONLY saw it as a means to lose weight, to sweat off weight or to punish myself after a binge (there’s actually a form of bulimia called “Exercise Bulimia”)⠀I hated it. I remember not allowing myself to get off the elliptical until I’d hit a certain amount of calories…
HOW I RECOVERED
It takes so much strength and courage to sit with ourselves when it hurts, but our hearts are desperately needing this attention from us. Give yourself the love you’re denying yourself…sit with your pain, sit through the discomfort, sit through the anxiety, the frustration and the fear – you will make it through the other side.
Our feelings cannot hurt us, but our refusal to feel them will. Have the courage to sit with your heart….this is how we begin to heal.
EATING DISORDER AWARENESS WEEK
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 can shed on the topic, the less shame all those that suffer will feel.
HOW TO CREATE A MENTAL HEALTH CHECKLIST
When I was in recovery I started a checklist like this. I knew if I went too many days without checking too many boxes, I’d likely end up binging. I still keep a list like this. It changes from time to time but this is what mine looks like now…
Princess Diana’s struggle with bulimia
On RECOVERY
If there was one thing, I wish I knew earlier on in life, it’s that my eating disorder was not the problem, it was the solution to a problem.