Let go of toxic control, in order to regain healthy control.
Find Your Balance.
Recovery doesn't mean putting your life on hold. Recovery means holding on so you can live your best life.
Hold yourself back, or heal yourself back together. You decide.
Eating disorder recovery becomes possible when you keep making the next right decision over and over. With time, these decisions become automatic.
While she is still hospitalised, I take Emma out for strengthening walks, for her muscles and been under-used for a long time. She is sometimes breathless, I notice with concern, and there are other c...
Recovery is hard. Regret is harder.
Soon, when all is well, you're going to look back on this period of your life and be so glad that you never gave up.
Whatever you did today is enough. Whatever you felt today is valid. Whatever you thought today isn't to be judged. Repeat the above each day.
The reasons for Emma's illness and for her decision to allow life in, rather than die, are intertwined and involve the beginnings of her feelings of belonging, of safety and of competence to be in the...
My only choice was to fight my way out, even if I didn't think I would make it.