I Love Everything

"I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky" -John Masefield

[recoveryrambles]

Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America, Rebecca J. Lester

[hungryfictions]

Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America

[blueeyedfairyy]

Its important to honor your hunger. Your body wouldnt waste energy telling you that its hungry for no reason

[thepeacefulgarden]

The numbers on the scale do not define me, and they have nothing to say about my worth as a human being. Neither do my dress or pants size, my measurements, my labs, or my BMI.

My body is not a moral failing.

I don't owe anyone thinness.

I don't owe anyone adherence to current beauty standards.

Health is complex, and it's not a moral obligation to myself or to anyone else.

Food is more than just fuel.

I am allowed to have treats.

I don't have to count calories or macros.

Exercise is not a punishment for the food I have eaten or am about to eat.

I am allowed to have snacks.

Food isn't good or bad, it just is.

I am allowed to have fats and carbs.

All bodies, including mine, are worthy, because they hold human beings.

I am allowed to have rolls, cellulite, stretch marks, etc.

My body does not define me.

I am allowed to love my body just as it is, right here and now.

I don't have to diet.

I am unfollowing "thinspo" and "fitspo" accounts on social media. Today. Right now.

I am allowed to eat any foods I want.

I am allowed to eat as much as I want.

I am allowed to eat any time I want, day or night.

I listen to my body and trust myself.

I am enough, and I am worthy, right here and now, just as I am.

[night-dreaming-thin]

[spacebetweenpages]

Just a reminder that it’s never to late to start recovery. No matter how many times you’ve relapsed, no matter how many times you’ve tried, you can begin to recover again. No one is a lost cause

[lyssieslife524]

reminder that if you feel like you are 'not sick enough' you are sick! A healthy person doesn't wish to be sick. You will never be "sick enough for your disorder" - sick enough is in the ground. Reach out now: you are valid, you deserve help, you can do this!

[pastperfectcontinuous]

bell hooks mentioned going through a time in her life where she was severely depressed and suicidal and how the only way she got through it was through changing her environment: She surrounded her home with buddhas of all colors, Audre Lorde’s A Litany for Survival facing her as she wakes up, and filling the space she saw everyday with reinforcing objects and meaningful books. She asks herself each day, “What are you going to do today to resist domination?” I also really liked it when she said that in order to move from pain to power, it is crucial to engage in “an active rewriting of our lives.”

[ritavonbees]

I have come to think of the suicidal impulse as the brain waving a flag to say three things:

something needs to change here

this is urgent

I don’t know how to do it

death is the ultimate metaphor for drastic change. it’s a general specific. whatever your problems are, it is very likely that dead people don’t have to deal with them. a real solution to your problems may demand a very narrow range of action that’s likely to be out of reach at this moment, but death is sold on every street corner, so it feels like a more realistic fantasy than happiness.

you don’t really want to die per se but it’s also not completely random chemicals swamping your brain for no reason. you want the pain to stop, you want to be somewhere else, you want to be someone else. it’s urgent. you don’t know how to do it. the end is not the end but a means that feels within your reach right now.

this is the wisdom of bell hooks: daily rituals of meaning and resistance and solidarity are part of slowly building a future where you can make the change you really need. and only alive people can do that. every step you take towards change and power is another step away from death.

[akindplace]

viktojadesigns

[twloha]

[cthublove]

Some of my favorite places on the Smith College campus (Hubbard house shoutout)! I miss it so much and it was incredible to visit this weekend. Can’t believe it’s been 14 years since graduating!

[wellesleybooks]

Ria, our part time bookseller and full time student at Wellesley College made a book display. She calls it “Anything You Can Write We Can Write Better- Works by alumnae of historically women’s colleges.” It’s full of some fantastic books.

Ria's List

Wellesley College Madam Secretary - Madeleine Albright Mr. Churchill's Secretary - Susan Elia MacNeal Last Night at the Telegraph Club- Malinda Lo The Sweet Spot - Amy Poeppel Heartburn- Nora Ephron Dear Wendy- Ann Zhao Pieces of Blue- Holly Goldberg Sloan Barbara the Slut- Lauren Holmes Good Grief - E.B. Bartels We Have Always Been Who We Are- Sofia Romero Nancy Drew- Carolyn Keene (aka Harriet Stratemeyer)

Barnard College Eileen - Ottessa Moshfegh The Vulnerables - Sigrid Nunez The Death of a Jaybird- Jodi M. Savage Making It in America- Rachel Slade

Smith College The Feminine Mystique- Betty Friedan The Cliffs- J. Courtney Sullivan A Tale for the Time Being- Ruth Ozeki A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara Ariel- Sylvia Plath Mastering the Art of French Cooking- Julia Child The Starless Sea-Erin Morgenstern The Babysitters Club- Ann M. Martin

Bryn Mawr Crying in H Mart- Michelle Zauner The Trouble with You- Ellen Feldman The Brightwood Code- Monica Hesse Necessary Trouble- Drew Gilpin Faust

[cthublove]

I love this so much!

[emmelyy]

Shoutout to everyone relearning who they are after a lifetime of believing that losing weight was all they had to offer the world.

[ed-recovery-affirmations]

We don't make our food choices to stay thin. We make our food choices to keep ALL of our nutritional needs met.

[randomreasonstolive]

Reason to Live #12204

    Going for a swim in the ocean. – Guest Submission

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[1five1two]

'Northern Lights, Juneau, Alaska'. Sydney Laurence. c. 1920s.

[dailygingerheads]

CAMILA MENDES. Adidas Campaign.