Posts Tagged ‘eating disorders’
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 MoreBulimia Was Only a Symptom
After dropping to 95 pounds on my self-imposed daily food allotment of carrots and a can of shrimp with ketchup, I slowly started eating, again. I was 16. But it wasn’t long after giving myself permission to eat that the dam broke. Eating turned into bingeing, which was soon followed by bingeing and then purging occasionally and then more…
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 MoreHate My Body
Hate my body | hate my hair | hate my flabby arms | hate my nose … how is it we get these messages so deeply embedded in our thoughts? How is it the headlines still scream for us to change some piece of our appearance for a better life? “Why is it that reporters…
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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