Posts Tagged ‘bulimia’
Eating Disorders and ACEs | #ComeAsYouAre
Understanding the connection between eating disorders and ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) formed the basis of the final stage of my bulimia recovery. The #ComeAsYouAre hashtag on Instagram shared in this post title was part of the National Eating Disorders Association’s (NEAD) 2019 Eating Disorders Awareness Week. As NEAD explained its objective, For us, Come as…
Read MoreChildren of Alcoholics Awareness Week | February 2017
One in four children live in families with a parent addicted to alcohol, according to the National Association of Children of Alcoholics. Unless you have been a child in a home with untreated, unhealthily discussed alcohol misuse, it’s difficult to image what it’s like to be a child in such a home. Devastating. Scary. Shame-filled.…
Read MoreRecovery and Mental Health | Time for a Tune-Up
Recovery and mental health go hand in hand. I know, because I took the long, hard way to understanding this concept. Sure you can have one without the other. I know that, too. But it’s when I have both that my life really takes off – not to great heights or things, necessarily, rather to great contentment,…
Read MoreSharing Secrets – Shattering the Shame
There’s a saying in the rooms of 12 step programs, “We’re only as sick as our secrets.” And it’s true. I experienced it myself, which drove my 40+ years of coping with secondhand drinking and my own experiences with anorexia and bulimia, and so have the thousands of people with whom I’ve worked or been in contact over…
Read MoreEating Disorders — Bulimia and Anorexia
Bulimia and anorexia – two eating disorders that can destroy a person’s quality of life in ways similar to the destruction caused by misunderstood, untreated alcoholism or drug addiction. Thanksgiving is my bulimia-free birthday, if you will – it was 30 years ago that I made it through my first T’day feast without binging and…
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