anorexia nervosa
Recovery commitments: Allow it to be simple
Over the next couple of weeks I will be posting blogs focusing on “recovery commitments.” These recovery commitments posts will be outlining some of the most common reasons that people in recovery get anxious and stressed and suggesting some simplifications for those moments. I believe that one of the fundamental reasons that we feel stressed […]
Finding joy and fighting anorexia with the color yellow
My name is Erin, and I am a girl who once defined herself by her eating disorder. My eating disorder and the person I was were so intertwined that it was hard to untangle who was who. I mistook my eating disorder for myself, and myself for my eating disorder. I didn’t recognize that my […]
June Alexander: Recovery as an adult, and writing.
This week I talk to June Alexander, who was in her fifties when she fully recovered from long-term anorexia. June’s personal bio: I love sharing my writing passion by helping people with eating disorder experience to tell their stories. I believe everyone has a story to tell and the way it is told makes all […]
Recovery Commitments: Weight Gain – Eating Disorder Recovery for Adults
These recovery commitments posts are outlining some of the most common reasons that people in recovery get anxious and stressed and suggesting some simplifications for those moments. I believe that one of the fundamental reasons that we feel stressed in recovery is because we forget that we are meant to be pissing our eating disorder […]
Recovery Commitments: Unrestricted eating – Eating Disorder Recovery for Adults
These recovery commitments posts are outlining some of the most common reasons that people in recovery get anxious and stressed and suggesting some simplifications for those moments. I believe that one of the fundamental reasons that we feel stressed in recovery is because we forget that we are meant to be pissing our eating disorder […]
Recovery From Restrictive Eating: Other People’s Food
“Other people’s food.” You know, the food that other people eat. The food that is for them. Not for you. Not eating other people’s food makes you different. Special. Less dependent. Until you realize it doesn’t. I’d been getting braver. So much braver. I’d eaten more sticky toffee pudding that week than most people eat […]
Confessions of a Body Positivity Dissenter
I am far from perfect in my own body neutrality. Some days I still wish I could hide under a baggy sweatshirt, or I find myself wondering what the scale would say, and on those days, I attempt to engage in two cognitions: Recovery is not linear, and poor body image days are human. Body […]
Recovery Stories: Connection and Advocacy [Podcast]
This weeks podcast is a conversation with Aimee Becker on recovery, connection, and advocacy Aimee Becker is the Chief Operating Officer of the Gaudiani Clinic. She spent 10 years dedicating herself to developing the infrastructure for Monte Nido & Affiliates. Inspired to join the field through her own recovery, Aimee joined Carolyn Costin when Monte Nido […]
Malnutrition is a serious medical condition. Talk therapy isn’t always sufficient
People are still dying from eating disorders. This means that people are dying of malnutrition. Yes, in the West, in our world of abundant food, people are dying of malnutrition. And they are doing so right under their doctors, dietician, and therapist’s noses. There are so many ways in which the eating disorder treatment field […]
Recovery stories: Cannabis and eating disorder recovery
In this week’s podcast, Tabitha talks Sophia — a person currently in recovery — about medical use of cannabis in recovery from anorexia. Hello there, welcome to this weeks podcast. This week we are talking about medical marijuana/cannabis for use in recovery from restrictive eating disorders such as anorexia. I am talking to […]
Recovery Stories: Blue Milk [Podcast]
In this podcast Tabitha talks to a guy in recovery Transcript thank you Marie! Hello there, welcome to this week’s podcast. This week I had the pleasure of talking to a guy called Chase. And Chase is in recovery from an eating disorder. First Chase got in contact with me a while ago he […]
Baby and Postpartum Update! – BeautyBeyondBones
Hello friends! Oh my goodness, wow! Here we are, Penny is SIX WEEKS OLD today and I am absolutely in love! Here’s a little birth video I made on Instagram: And wow I am absolutely octopus’d out! I just coined that term: octopus’d. Meaning: all eight of my arms are completely occupied with something. This […]