Together We Can Recover!

This site may be triggering! We urge you to visit the disclosure page! This is a blog focused on recovery and support for others who are struggling with eating disorders as well as other mental health issues. It is a safe space where you can vent and ask for support from people who understand! We can share our victories as well as our struggles and support each other as we recover together! We are not professionals but we are battling eating disorders as well as other issues. Please don't hesitate to come talk to us. Together we can recover! <3

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GENERAL:

Coping with the Holidays

Eating Disorders and Holidays

Surviving the Holidays with an Eating Disorder [1] [2, PDF] [3] [4]

Twelve Ideas For Negotiating the Holidays

Challenges During the Holidays

“The best way to get through the holidays with an eating disorder is to truly look for those people who provide you with the support you need, those who bring joy to your face, whether family, friends, or even fellow peers in recovery, so that with them you are able to find the comfort and freedom outside of your eating disorder struggle.”  -Nader Armanios (source)

DIAGNOSIS-SPECIFIC:

Managing BED Symptoms Over the Holidays [1] [2]

Resolve to Challenge Anorexia this Winter

Preparing for Easter in Bulimia Recovery

“Holidays can be challenging. So much food around  can be overwhelming. Remember food is not the enemy.. It just feels like it. Relax try to eat intuitively. Enjoy the people you are with.  Don’t put too much pressure on yourself.”  -Jo Cook (source)

RECOVERY-SPECIFIC:

Managing Recovery During the Holidays [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

6 Ways to Prevent Holiday Relapse

Handling Holidays with Dietary Restrictions

(Please Note: I am from the United States, and this list includes the holidays I celebrate.  The same ideas can easily be applied to other celebratory days and events as well.)

HOLIDAY-SPECIFIC:

New Years

5 Recovery Tips

Emergency Tips for New Years

Coping Tips

Resolutions: Good vs. Triggering

Are Your Resolutions Aiding Your Recovery?

New Years and Recovery

Valentine’s Day

How Can You Cope?

Valentine’s Day in Recovery

Easter

Easter Dinner

Independence Day

Declare Independence from Your Eating Disorder

Navigating the 4th of July

Halloween

5 Tips for a Happy Halloween

Staying Safe on Halloween with an ED

Binge Eating and Halloween [1] [2]

Halloween Candy and Mindful Eating

Thanksgiving

Surviving Thanksgiving with an Eating Disorder

Thanksgiving with an ED: 10 Tips

How to Make It Easier

Thanksgiving Tips

Thanksgiving and Eating Disorders

Thanksgiving Do’s and Don’ts

Have a Binge-Free Thanksgiving

Christmas

Survival Guide PDF

Coping with Christmas [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Christmas and Eating Disorders

Christmas Support

Tips for Christmas [1] [2]

The Holidays Can be Scary

H unger means you eat when physically hungry instead of emotionally hungry. A ttitudes about your size has to with the size of your heart instead of the size of your body. P eople accept and value you for who you are, not according to how you look. P roblems are resolved in ways other than stuffing your feelings with food. Y ou spend as much time and energy on helping others, as you do on how you look.

H appiness comes from within rather than from expectations of others. O ccasions for the holidays emphasize relating to others instead of emphasizing food. L ove of self means you deserve to treat yourself in the best humanly possible way. I dentity of self involves more than how you look. D isapproval of self is changed to approval of who you are. A cceptance of what one can not change includes your body features. Y ou treat yourself as you treat your best friend. S ociety values you for being you without emphasis to your weight or size.

(source)

[letsrecovertogether]

[annoyingfeministbitch]

fitspiration-messages vs actually-loving-messages by ronnie ritchie

[katswenski]

Weirdness wins out yet again. My Website — My Facebook page — See me on Webtoon

[fuck-thinner-eat-dinner]

GENERAL:

Coping with the Holidays

Eating Disorders and Holidays

Surviving the Holidays with an Eating Disorder [1] [2, PDF] [3] [4]

Twelve Ideas For Negotiating the Holidays

Challenges During the Holidays

“The best way to get through the holidays with an eating disorder is to truly look for those people who provide you with the support you need, those who bring joy to your face, whether family, friends, or even fellow peers in recovery, so that with them you are able to find the comfort and freedom outside of your eating disorder struggle.”  -Nader Armanios (source)

DIAGNOSIS-SPECIFIC:

Managing BED Symptoms Over the Holidays [1] [2]

Resolve to Challenge Anorexia this Winter

Preparing for Easter in Bulimia Recovery

“Holidays can be challenging. So much food around  can be overwhelming. Remember food is not the enemy.. It just feels like it. Relax try to eat intuitively. Enjoy the people you are with.  Don’t put too much pressure on yourself.”  -Jo Cook (source)

RECOVERY-SPECIFIC:

Managing Recovery During the Holidays [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

6 Ways to Prevent Holiday Relapse

Handling Holidays with Dietary Restrictions

(Please Note: I am from the United States, and this list includes the holidays I celebrate.  The same ideas can easily be applied to other celebratory days and events as well.)

HOLIDAY-SPECIFIC:

New Years

5 Recovery Tips

Emergency Tips for New Years

Coping Tips

Resolutions: Good vs. Triggering

Are Your Resolutions Aiding Your Recovery?

New Years and Recovery

Valentine’s Day

How Can You Cope?

Valentine’s Day in Recovery

Easter

Easter Dinner

Independence Day

Declare Independence from Your Eating Disorder

Navigating the 4th of July

Halloween

5 Tips for a Happy Halloween

Staying Safe on Halloween with an ED

Binge Eating and Halloween [1] [2]

Halloween Candy and Mindful Eating

Thanksgiving

Surviving Thanksgiving with an Eating Disorder

Thanksgiving with an ED: 10 Tips

How to Make It Easier

Thanksgiving Tips

Thanksgiving and Eating Disorders

Thanksgiving Do’s and Don’ts

Have a Binge-Free Thanksgiving

Christmas

Survival Guide PDF

Coping with Christmas [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Christmas and Eating Disorders

Christmas Support

Tips for Christmas [1] [2]

The Holidays Can be Scary

H unger means you eat when physically hungry instead of emotionally hungry. A ttitudes about your size has to with the size of your heart instead of the size of your body. P eople accept and value you for who you are, not according to how you look. P roblems are resolved in ways other than stuffing your feelings with food. Y ou spend as much time and energy on helping others, as you do on how you look.

H appiness comes from within rather than from expectations of others. O ccasions for the holidays emphasize relating to others instead of emphasizing food. L ove of self means you deserve to treat yourself in the best humanly possible way. I dentity of self involves more than how you look. D isapproval of self is changed to approval of who you are. A cceptance of what one can not change includes your body features. Y ou treat yourself as you treat your best friend. S ociety values you for being you without emphasis to your weight or size.

(source)

[peachesfromny-deactivated202507]

PASS THIS ON.

The first transgender suicide hotline is now up and running in the U.S. You can reach Trans Lifeline at 877-565-8860.

[fitnesstipsonly]

[letsrecovertogether]

Recovery is not simple. Recovery is not easy. Recovery is not fast. Recovery is a grueling process. Recovery is a 24/7 job, with no days off, no breaks, and very few, if any pay days. You are not allowed to quit. You are not allowed to back down, or even just take a day off to rest. You don’t have a choice but to keep going, to keep fighting, because somewhere, somehow, it has to be worth it.

[thelatestkate]

[darknightshining]

I kind of really needed this…

[mcgrlabroad]

If Aphrodite had stomach rolls then so can I

[bee-girlfriends]

This is veryveryvery important. My wife was feeling down about herself the other night and asked me “why do I look like this?” And I immediately brought up a photo I had taken of a sculpture of Aphrodite I had taken at the Chicago MOMA. I said, “look at this picture. What does she look like?” And my wife very shyly answered “Me…” (Literally her body is IDENTICAL to the sculpture) so I replied “that is the Goddess Aphrodite. THAT is why your body looks like this.”

[humunanunga]

I very rarely reblog miscellaneous posts but there are some followers of mine who really need to see this.

[pro-choice-is-love]

Oh shit I’m crying thank you

[meant-to-live-free-deactivated2]

[myrelationshipwithlove]

“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”

[stay-yourself-0]

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[oddlyaquaria]

This sign is in my doctors office above the scale and I really love it. It actually made me feel a lot better after reading it

[d0esntmakesense]

My relationship with gravity is stronger than ever.

[rdakotapdx-deactivated20221012]

brilliant

[javjavi]

recovery is possible

[dreamsandsunflowers]

[letsrecovertogether]

Hi! I tried dabbling in a little positivity art as a coping strategy. Just thought I’d share if you’d like to reblog! ^^