Reach for Recovery

Recovery is a wild ride of self discovery! I am here to share my successes & struggles as well as support fellow recovery warriors. We are in this together!  

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Don’t believe every worried thought you have. Worried thoughts are notoriously inaccurate.

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Increasing Snacks In Recovery

Another snack time video! This time I am chatting about increasing your snack size and variety in eating disorder recovery. Enjoy!!

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It’s snack time! What are you having? It took me a long time to see snacks in a more open-minded way. Now I am okay with responding to my hunger and having a bigger snack if that is what I want. More on that to come in a video! 

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Snack Time Chat - Comparison & Connection in Recovery

Just me chatting about comparison and connection in eating disorder recovery while enjoying my morning snack...one hour after breakfast! Because iit's okay to nee...

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It is completely okay to eat more than your meal plan or more than what others consider “normal” in recovery. 

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Is it about the food??

Extremes pop up in so many areas of eating disorder recovery. One that I’ve been contemplating recently is the idea that it is either “not about the food” or so much emphasis put on the food itself that we negate other essential aspects of the recovery process. I think there is a ton of gray area within food being our medicine and not the real issue. I also think that we have to account for each individual having a different experience and therefore needing varying amounts of healing in specific areas.

One thing that makes ED recovery so challenging is that it is very much a whole person illness. It is physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. So yes, we need to nourish our bodies and of course, food is vitally essential to this processes. We simply cannot recover without it. But I think most of us will find the need to also do some deep inward healing in order to reach a firm state of recovery. This is why it is dangerous to prescribe a one size fits all approach. There are some universal truths that experts have noted in terms of eating disorder recovery but all of us have unique experiences with what works and what does not work.

I encourage you to explore what works best for YOU, not getting too caught up in what others are doing on social media. A big thing for me in my own process has been curiosity. I don’t just assume something will or will not work for me until I try it and see what happens with the help of my team. If it seems to have benefited me, I continue it. If not, I tell myself “that was good for someone else but it wasn’t good for me.” And I let it go.

Anyway, this is turning into a bit of a ramble but the point is that I encourage you to approach your recovery with curiosity. Discovery all the area’s of gray within the healing process. Keep in mind that feeding your body is so incredibly important but the food is not likely the only thing that needs to be addressed.

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I’ve found stronger connections with others and a more genunie joy by being imperfect than I ever did when I thought I was in control. 

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I’m Back….

I used to be ‘baby steps/recoveringcj’, then had a second blog but can’t remember what it was called??

Since then I’ve majorly relapsed back into anorexia, gained a new diagnosis EUPD (BPD in America) and basically have fallen apart.

I’ve made a new blog to help me journal and hopefully reconnect…..

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@theeverlastingeverlasting

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@thebearistrying

@edo-vivendum

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And anyone else that I haven’t been able to find…..

Hello xxx

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Welcome back! Can you remind me of your name? 

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Recovery is not perfect.

I’m not here to be the example of the “perfect” recovery. I won’t pretend I have the entire process figured out or that I don’t make mistakes from time to time. 

I still struggle. I still mess up after all these years. But I get back up and I learn from each experience. I am not some recovery goddess or guru but I am real and I am a fighter. Recovery is hard. But recovery is worth it. 

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Cringe culture is awful. Let people like whatever they want, they’re not hurting anyone.

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Amen!!

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Challenging Restrictive Mindset Through Kindness

Hi everyone! This is a continuation of a blog post I wrote on how restriction pops up in places other than food during eating disorder recovery. I've found p...

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Nothing like real ice cream from a dairy farm!

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Restriction pops up everywhere.

As I have taken a deeper dive into my own recovery I have noticed how a restrictive mindset can happen with many things, not just food. I’ve restricted sleep, restricted pleasure, restricted LIFE. A key part of healing for me has been kindness to myself. My therapist told me I should do the “reverse golden rule” which is to treat myself the way I would treat others. That means that even on days I’m not feeling it I can treat myself with respect, compassion, and understanding. 

I encourage you to look at your life and find ways you might be struggling with a restrictive mindset. Make a list in your journal of ways that you can cultivate kindness towards yourself. If you need help getting started don’t hesitate to drop me a message! I am happy to help. 

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Recovery is something you can fight for at any moment of any day...it doesn’t matter what happened yesterday, what happened this morning, or what happened 1 minute ago. You can get back on track right now. 

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You have a cool page!!

Thanks so much! I appreciate the feedback. :)

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if you struggle with chronic eating issues, body image disturbances, or weight cycling, i invite you to consider that diet culture is the air we breathe, and it’s rooted in white supremacist capitalist patriarchy as well as ableism and healthism. the way we frame our own issues is profoundly affected by our cultural conditioning. sometimes, to heal, we have to look at that conditioning thru a critical lens, to understand where our assumptions and judgments and narratives come from, so that we can decide for ourselves whether they’re a healthy and apt basis on which to build our conceptualizations of our issues. 

this shouldn’t really be controversial. to understand the way we construct food & body frameworks we need to understand the origin of those constructs in actual history, science, and politics. to ignore the embeddedness of our even our own analyses of our experiences is to miss out on the chance to say no to harmful indoctrination under systems of oppression