admin on December 30th, 2007

I remember a time when New Year’s resolutions were all about losing weight or gaining weight or finally really committing to recovery.
This year, well, I’m still thinking about things like getting more exercise but it’s not because of an urge to lose weight so much as I know that I’m just not as active as [...]

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admin on December 27th, 2007

Right now I am sitting at the top of the stairs in my partner’s parents’ home. Yesterday was 10 hours spent in a car, driving across state lines and talking about the chaos of my family - the trainwreck of conversations all steered back to my mother’s grief or mourning (she went so far as [...]

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admin on December 21st, 2007

When I was at my most ill - right before I admitted myself to the hospital to try to recover from anorexia - my mother said, “why? You look great.” And sure, I cleaned up okay and thanks to the way some designers want kids to look just like little adults the clothing I bought [...]

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admin on December 20th, 2007

 

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Perhaps if I did, I’d remember that each day is new and that every moment offers me the choice to create the life that I’ve long been wanting to live.

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There’s more than a little bit of chaos in my life lately, and sometimes it feels like I’m not moving forward at all. Other times, I think that rather that taking one step forward and two steps back, I’m just going in circles. Truth be told, it’s making me a little bit crazy.
I know that, [...]

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