That has been something of a trend for me really - not believing that my actions could hurt me. It’s also been a trend for me to hold myself back again and again. What’s starting to become clearer to me is this: I don’t want to be held back by anything anymore, and that includes my own emotions and emotional reactions to different situations.
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When I wasn’t as far along in my recovery, relationships didn’t really matter all that much to me. I didn’t have a sense of wanting or needing to have people in my life, in part because I didn’t think that I deserved to have people care about me (after all, I didn’t much care about [...]
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The more that I write in this blog about eating disorder recovery, the more that I’m coming to an interesting place within my own self-exploration.
I know that, in reading, watching and thinking about my own eating disordered behaviors, - with my current level of stress - there is a bit of risk in this endeavor. [...]
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Some days, everything feels pretty alright - maybe not great, but alright. Other days, I find myself hanging onto thoughts and behaviors that I just can’t shake.
Now that’s not to say that those behaviors involve skipping meals, going for long runs even though the weather is blatantly awful, or that they involve self-harm in other [...]
Beyond the eating disorder behaviors that those who suffer have relating to food, it strikes me that there are other behaviors, some that are even more deeply seeded that people don’t really talk about. The biggest one that’s on my mind today is secrecy.
While I was writing the post yesterday afternoon about giving in, I [...]
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Anne Heaton’s album Give In is something that I throw into the stereo more often than I should feel comfortable admitting, but I’ve said it.
The song that’s more or less the title song - Give in to You
Well the bell it hardly made a sound
As its tower crashed to the ground
And me, I had to [...]
