CNN Article
The sweet smell of sugar cookies baking filled the air in Kris Shock’s kitchen.
She pulled a tray from the oven and sat down with her 9-year-old son, Drew, to frost the treats.
Then, Shock did something that might have been unthinkable for her a few years ago. She took a bite of a cookie.
Shock, 36, [...]
After spending yesterday in the car - more or less all day, really, in that we woke up early at the bed and breakfast, sat down with a single person, a couple and a family of 4 then headed to my partner’s grandmother’s house for a short visit and then to her parents’ place to [...]
I’m not a fan of this time of year. I was on today’s date back in 1995 that I admitted myself to a psych unit because my eating, my anxiety and my depression were all completely out of control. I didn’t have insurance at the time and there was a concensus that trying to manage [...]
Continue reading about Seasonal Frustrations and Eating Disorder Recovery
It’s a little bit strange. I’m hanging out in one of my old haunts - the upstairs part of a cafe in the only free standing Borders in the state of Vermont. It’s one of those rainy, cold, grey November days that have me thinking “Yup. I know why I left.” I’m exhausted and feeling [...]
Continue reading about Friends, a Sense of Wow, I Was Sick and Being Out of Town
I get caught up these days and neglect the things that matter to me. This is always a warning sign for me, a sign that I’m not listening to my gut, that I’m not hearing my heart and that I’m not feeling a sadness that’s about to consume me.
That’s part of the reason why there [...]
