healing girl

a wellness lifestyle baby, recovering from eds and sh, now changing my life for the better!

[angel-dustspo]

⎯⎯⎯ The New Me 2k25 project 🌸 ⎯⎯⎯

✮ Incorporating more healthy whole foods as part of your diet - less added sugar/oil, healthy food swaps!!

✮ No food restrictions, just mindfulness and enjoying life through your plate!

✮ Hitting a protein goal daily

✮ Playing a sport weekly!

✮ Working out/running 3-4 times per week, but always remember to take rest days too!!

✮ Drinking 2 liters of water daily

✮ In bed by 10 PM, up at 6:30 AM

✮ Doing AM and PM skincare every day

✮ Getting homework done as soon as possible

✮ Studying and practicing at least 1 hour a day

✮ Max. 2-3 hours screen time

✮ Less toxic social media in your life (please uninstall the apps that are bad for you.)

✮ Reading at least 20 pages daily (not about quantity but about quality)

✮ Learning a chosen language every day

✮ Spending time with yourself, taking care of your body and mind and spoiling yourself often. If you don't treat yourself right, then who will?

✮ Taking it easy. You're not working against yourself, but with yourself.

I am confident and positive that the physical and mental improvements will appear in no time, and that I am growing into a better person every day. I am creating my perfect life, I am glowing up!!

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Hey, slow down!

Oh, Tumblr, the place of constant self- improvement and always doing "more and more". I used to see this app as a growth tool, as the only way to reach my goals, as my motivation to work harder and push through workouts and diets and "glow-up steps". Until I broke. Yeah, nobody warns you about the dangers of not knowing when to take it easier, motivated by the self improvement communities and the constant need of becoming "better" than you ever were. I want to raise awareness because it's SO easy to overwork yourself and end up in a so much worse place than before, exactly when you think that "everything is going so well and I've finally figured my whole life out".

Take a step back, turn off your music and really think about your life. Are you pushing through constantly, even without noticing? Are you actually resting, with no guilt? Are your mind and body clashing with each other, both wanting different things? Are you happy with the way you're living your life, or are you just chasing the end results and neglecting the present? It's so easy to get so caught up in "being perfect", until your brain literally won't be able to listen to what you truly need and just push you past the limit.

Yeah, I know this won't apply to most, but this isn't to help most people. I want to help those like me, who fooled themselves into believing that they're doing all of it for themselves. Who don't even realise something is wrong, because "do more" has been their reality for way too long. Many people don't even believe it's a real problem, since "oh, I cut out all sugar, it's better for my health", "I workout daily!", "I just want to lose a few more pounds" are all socially accepted things and always encouraged. Nobody stops to tell you that you need a break or it's going to consume your entire life soon, so let me be the one to warn you. You don't want to overdo it, for the sake of both past and future you.

I know my audience and this might speak to some people, so please listen to your body when it screams for rest. If it needs more food, you're not selfish and you're not sabotaging anything. If it wants to skip a workout once in a while, have more rest days one week, eat dinner after 6 p.m, choose real dessert instead of a protein bar or stevia sweetened low-c4l brownies, skip the salad and go get ice cream, go out drinking with friends or just watch a movie till 1 a.m and cry, let it be. You're not falling behind. You're not broken. You're not failing. You're building a strong foundation for leading a balanced, real life. Not one where you hate yourself into eating clean and working out just for the sake of "becoming better". Thats only self sabotage and it does get to you eventually. Treat yourself with kindness and compassion and take good care of both your mental and physical health.

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Hey, slow down!

Oh, Tumblr, the place of constant self- improvement and always doing "more and more". I used to see this app as a growth tool, as the only way to reach my goals, as my motivation to work harder and push through workouts and diets and "glow-up steps". Until I broke. Yeah, nobody warns you about the dangers of not knowing when to take it easier, motivated by the self improvement communities and the constant need of becoming "better" than you ever were. I want to raise awareness because it's SO easy to overwork yourself and end up in a so much worse place than before, exactly when you think that "everything is going so well and I've finally figured my whole life out".

Take a step back, turn off your music and really think about your life. Are you pushing through constantly, even without noticing? Are you actually resting, with no guilt? Are your mind and body clashing with each other, both wanting different things? Are you happy with the way you're living your life, or are you just chasing the end results and neglecting the present? It's so easy to get so caught up in "being perfect", until your brain literally won't be able to listen to what you truly need and just push you past the limit.

Yeah, I know this won't apply to most, but this isn't to help most people. I want to help those like me, who fooled themselves into believing that they're doing all of it for themselves. Who don't even realise something is wrong, because "do more" has been their reality for way too long. Many people don't even believe it's a real problem, since "oh, I cut out all sugar, it's better for my health", "I workout daily!", "I just want to lose a few more pounds" are all socially accepted things and always encouraged. Nobody stops to tell you that you need a break or it's going to consume your entire life soon, so let me be the one to warn you. You don't want to overdo it, for the sake of both past and future you.

I know my audience and this might speak to some people, so please listen to your body when it screams for rest. If it needs more food, you're not selfish and you're not sabotaging anything. If it wants to skip a workout once in a while, have more rest days one week, eat dinner after 6 p.m, choose real dessert instead of a protein bar or stevia sweetened low-c4l brownies, skip the salad and go get ice cream, go out drinking with friends or just watch a movie till 1 a.m and cry, let it be. You're not falling behind. You're not broken. You're not failing. You're building a strong foundation for leading a balanced, real life. Not one where you hate yourself into eating clean and working out just for the sake of "becoming better". Thats only self sabotage and it does get to you eventually. Treat yourself with kindness and compassion and take good care of both your mental and physical health.

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.☘︎ ݁˖ august is the month of choosing myself, over and over again. ⋆˚࿔ august is the month of doing the work I was putting off. .☘︎ ݁˖ august is the month of slowing down. ⋆˚࿔ august is the month of taking action. .☘︎ ݁˖ august is the month of having fun. ⋆˚࿔ august is the month of taking care of my gut health and working out. .☘︎ ݁˖ august is the month of reading tons of books. ⋆˚࿔ august is the month of standing up for myself. .☘︎ ݁˖ august is the month of communicating. ⋆˚࿔ august is the month of taking one step towards my goals.

it doesn't matter how slow your progress is, as long as you never give up.

inspo : bloomzone <3

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results come from hard work and commitment.

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Hi I’m not sure if this is a problem you have but I struggle badly with binging. When I try to incorporate more healthy things into my diet I just end up regularly binging and it’s really bad. Do you have any solutions on how to stop my deep craving??

How to fix binging patterns

Hii omg this is the first time I'm giving advice on Tumblr since my long long break, thats so exciting!! Okay so I don't know if you've been here for a while, I assume not, but I had a pretty bad problem with binging and it just kept growing worse and worse when I stopped blogging here. I eventually healed from the eating disorders that I had and now I'm living my best normal life, so I guess I could give you some tips that worked for ME and maybe they might help!!

Okay so my biggest advice EVER is going on youtube and watching someone with a healthy relationship around food eat. I believe that the "how to stop [ed]" videos could work too, but for me I never actually did what I learned from them (but watch those too to get informed about what's going on). What helped me personally was to watch various youtubers like Linda Sun, Alia Zaita, Anna Engelschall or Coleen Christensen. The most important tool is TO GET EDUCATED. You have to get the basics of nutrition right and even more, and learn from the people that recovered how to lead a healthier life. Just watching them can change your perspective around food FOREVER, because they have such healthy relationships with food and that energy just transfers to you too.

Now, for me my binging is still such a mystery and I have no idea how it stopped eventually. It helped a ton that I don't live in a city so I don't have easy access to fast food. It might be helpful to not buy/own these kinds of food FOR NOW ONLY, until we get in a safe space around food. In case there are any trigger foods and you can't control the fact that they are near you, go get some (IF you crave them at that time) and ask yourself AFTER EVERY SINGLE BITE "am i satisfied?" "did i have enough?" "do i still need more?" (EXTREMELY important questions, always use them!!) and with time that starts preventing real binges from ever happening anymore.

Maybe when you crave something, instead of being scared of it and saying "no, I'm not going to have this now, I'll just binge and it'll get worse", try to honor your craving with a SENSIBLE pre-measured portion. Don't just eat out of the bag/tub, pick a sensible serving and stick to that. That way, you fulfilled your craving without losing track of how much you had already (doesn't work every time tho as you'll see, the craving might be too much one day and you'd get another serving but MOST times it works.) Also, don't try replacing real chocolate with this "0 c@lorie low sugar no fat cocoa bar", your craving will NOT be satiefied and you will eat way more chocolate than you would have otherwise (really recommend Coleen's youtube shorts on this, I learned so much from her omg!!)

As I tried to say earlier, cravings shouldn't be stopped/supressed, but honored in a mindful way. Eating mindfully, slowing down, putting the fork down, having no distractions around us, pre-portioning and asking questions mid-eating are all extremely powerful tools to fight overeating/binging.

I used to think that I had no fullness queues at all and that I could eat forever and never feel satisfied, but since implementing a couple of things, that stopped. Some of them I've just talked about, and others are (trying to) eat lots of fiber before/with every meal, trying to get more real protein in and leaving the dessert/a meal I would binge on (hamburger let's say) AFTER I just had some salad and idk protein or even a proper meal. It's important to add healthy things to your normal diet, not deny your favorite foods and eat only rabbit food for a week and then go back to old habbits. Health and pleasure/craving CAN and SHOULD COEXIST, it's not one or the other.

There are many powerful tools online and healing begins when you start to learn about what's truly going on and understand the mechanics of it. You're not alone in this and I'm confident that you will be able to stop this pattern and get your life back!! Don't give up even when you mess up, keep trying to heal because this happens to everyone else too and you can only go higher after a low like that! I know you got this, good luck !! <33

[angel-dustspo]

2025 - The year of your Recovery ₊˚⊹ᰔ

2025 is the year of change, and in the first part of January everybody is extremely motivated to "glow up", "reinvent themselves" and "change their lives". I'm all for that, but I believe there is something even more important that we should focus on in 2025: recovering. Learning how to be there for yourself, appreciate your own value, know your worth and finally, how to love yourself should be a priority this year. In order to achieve all of those, you'd have to undo the damage that has been done to your brain by the eating disorder and begin your healing process.

It's an extremely brave thing to acknowledge there is a problem and to actively WANT to change it. Recovery is a hard thing and, at times, it could seem even more challanging than the disorder itself and make you wonder "why did I even begin this, there's no point, i want to give up". It's normal to have bad days too, where you feel like you can't keep going anymore, but it's very important to keep pushing yourself. Recovery isn't linear and it WILL hurt, but it's so worth it to finally enjoy that dessert, have enough energy to hang out with your friends, improve your mood, feel warm again, have the strenght to go for a walk, and to look in the mirror and be happy with the person you see, to love the way you look and to fall in love with yourself again.

✮ Here are some recovery tips that have worked for me:

ׂ╰┈➤ Inspiring youtube videos

My most important tip for any disorder, addiction or problem ever. I know I would still be in the same place the little girl 4 years ago was if I didn't discover the recovery and self improvement youtubers. This has been the most important thing in my recovery journey because it was the starting point, the switch that finally showed me the light. Watching just a few videos made me change the way I am forever. I feel like everybody trying to recover should watch and learn from other people's mistakes and their journeys.

The people I find the most helpful are:

Linda Sun (I basically owe her my life, nothing and nobody ever helped me so much as she did through her inspiring videos!!!)

zoeunlimited (she helped me with beating ana by making me understand how the metabolism actually works and how important food is - please watch the metabolism videos)

Anna Engelschall

Coleen Christensen

Alivia D'andrea (ONLY the last video.)

Mae Alice Suzuki

ׂ╰┈➤ The Tumblr pro-recovery community

A key piece in my recovery, I wouldn't be in such a good mental state without Tumblr. It's true that it helped me beat an0rexia forever, become my best self and develop all my healthy habits. But we all know though that Tumblr can be a very toxic place for obsessive self improvement and that good health achieved by any means is glorified here, and I got myself orth0rexia from here, which I'm still struggling to recover from too. It's important to take the good stuff only and ignore any harmful media on here.

ׂ╰┈➤ Have "allowing days/meals"

My approach was to say "I allow myself to eat this". No reason needed to enjoy something you (used to) love, and I aim to feel no guilt afterwards. It doesn't work all the time, but it's a BIG step towards being able to eat anything guilt-free.

ׂ╰┈➤ Not consuming ED media

Say goodbye Tumblr th1nspo, glorifying eds on Tiktok or saving all those @n@ pins, all it does is ruin your progress and make you feel miresable about your own journey

ׂ╰┈➤ Changing your end goals

My end goals changed from being skinny and pretty to being strong and healthy, and doing things towards my new goal has brought me unintentional weight loss and enhanced my features a lot. Chasing that unhealthy beauty only attracts opposite results.

ׂ╰┈➤ Thinking about your reasons for recovering

It's extremely easy to get lost. Always keep in mind your recovery reasons and reassure yourself that you will succeed. Think about what you'll be able to do, what you miss now and how you will feel if you keep going, and stay strong!!!

ׂ╰┈➤ Don't beat yourself up

We all screw up sometimes, and the important thing is to keep hoping and keep working towards our dreams. It's stupid of me to just say this continuously, but you have to never give up on recovery. Most days you will hate yourself so much and not understand what's going on or what are you doing wrong. It might be the worst thing for your mental health right now, but in a week, a month, a year, you will be so happy you started recovery and never gave up on it.

The path is not easy, but it is worth every struggle. I hope 2025 is the year when you recover and you start to love yourself. You're so brave and I'm so proud of you for trying, good luck on your journey <333

[angel-dustspo]

How would you recommend balancing things like school and work with all of the healthy habits you partake in? This is my biggest struggle :/

Hiii, thats a lovely question, thank you so much!! I used to struggle a lot with time management too and would constantly skip one thing to do another. It's interesting how humans live on a constant "not enough" basis: "I didn't sleep enough", "I didn"t work enough", "I didn't sweat enough". It's important to always actually think of all the little things that you did do today and to celebrate every small win of the day.

My most helpful time-management tips:

✮ Limiting social media

I'm not a social media person at all, but that's because I chose to stop mindlessly scrolling some time ago and get my life back in order, and I've never been happier with any decision that I ever made.

I don't use any social media except Tumblr and Instagram once in a blue moon. I used to have every app there was and my screen time could go even up to 12 hours a day, but now I post my stuff on here and chat with a few friends once every few days and that's mostly it. This alone gives me at least 8 more hours of free time that I can use towards any activities more useful than scrolling or liking stories, anddd it's so peaceful and you get so much more mental clarity from it. That's the only way I found that made me be present in my daily life and enjoy every little moment.

✮ Multi-tasking

This probably isn't the best for me, but I too don't have "enough" time in a day to do everything I want or should. My thing is that I walk a lot in my room while doing anything I have to do on my phone, and I also walk while brushing my teeth, getting (un)ready or even reading sometimes. Another thing that I do is to read or do extra school work in my breaks at school.

✮ The "eat the frog" method

It's something I saw on here, and I actually do it unconsciouslly a lot. My approach is that the first thing that I do in the morning in the hardest task of the day or just something productive. I get up, drink my water and start reading/doing my homework straightaway. I found that this helps me be so much more productive and makes sure that I don't procrastinate forever and actually get my work done, and I highly recommend this method!!

I hope this will help you to become better at managing your time!! Good luck on your joutney, take good care of yourself and I'm so proud of you <333

[angel-dustspo]

⋆ Small achievable goals to change your entire life in 2025 🌸⋆.ೃ࿔.⊹𝄞⨾𓍢ִ໋

ׂ╰┈➤ Start cooking more of your meals at home. Incorporate more healthy ingredients in your meals and/or disguise them in delicious recipes!

ׂ╰┈➤ Start working out regularly, at the gym, in the park or just in your bedroom. Any form of activity counts!!

ׂ╰┈➤ Start drinking more water!!!

ׂ╰┈➤ Establish an easy morning and evening routine that you can do everyday

ׂ╰┈➤ Never skip skincare or basic hygiene like showering or brushing your teeth

ׂ╰┈➤ Fix your sleep schedule and sleep 7-9 hours a night

ׂ╰┈➤ Choose to spend less time on your phone and more time outside/with family and friends.

ׂ╰┈➤ Uninstall harmful social media apps

ׂ╰┈➤ Start being productive everyday – read, journal or practice your hobbies more often!

ׂ╰┈➤ Take yourself on solo dates! Everybody underestimates this so much, but I promise it makes such a difference in your mood. Go to the spa or salon, take sunset walks, read at the corner cafe while enjoying a warm pastry!!

ׂ╰┈➤ Start romanticising your life! Candle lit dinners with your family, spa and rest days, buying flowers or that cute dress or doing face masks while reading at night could make such a great difference!!

ׂ╰┈➤ Start complimenting people more often and saying kind things to strangers!

ׂ╰┈➤ Clear out your wardrobe! Find your desired style and get some cute key pieces that go well with anything. Donate old clothes that you aren't wearing anymore!

ׂ╰┈➤ Of course, looks ARE NOT everything in life, but you should try to look as put together as possible in every situation. Use clothes and hairstyles that fit you well, wear perfume, jewelery and accessories, try to have well maintained nails and skin

ׂ╰┈➤ Become well organised by always preparing for a situation ahead of time

ׂ╰┈➤ Experiment with cooking or baking, with your make up/hairstyle, and try out new places or hobbies too!

ׂ╰┈➤ Stop worrying about other people and their opinions. Cut out all the negativity in your life, they might be ruining your progress!

ׂ╰┈➤ Try to become more confident each day, being confident makes the biggest difference in your life of them all!

ׂ╰┈➤ Stop being so hard on yourself! Life is not a race so please remember to enjoy every moment and take it easy and slowly. Results will not be visible immediately but change is on the way and you know it too. Good luck!! <33

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praying for this kind of summer🌴🍉