A Post Originally Written For Instagram Towards The Start Of My Recovery: Eating more or outside the eating disorder’s rules in recovery can be the most terrifying thing. But…. at times like this it is bringing it back to the truth – No amount of food that we eat, no matter the time of day, […]
Category: Recovery Motivation
Posts that might help provide a bit of motivation to start or keep going in eating disorder recovery!
I wish recovery was all happy cake eating, coffee shops, smiling moments with loved ones & feeling relaxed lying on the sofa munching pizza & watching Netflix. Reality is different. Yes, there are moments of eating better, cake & pizza, coffee shop trips which can be enjoyable but these are also all associated with feelings […]
Eating disorder recovery is the simplest and yet hardest thing we do. The ingredients for success are actually very simple – BUT consistently applying these ingredients into action, day in and day out can feel the most complicated, chaotic and messy thing in the world. When recovery feels complicated, try to remember it is the […]
A Post Originally Written For Instagram Towards The Start Of My Recovery: ‘All In’ Challenges but what about Stopping Movement??In the eating disorder recovery community we often talk in black and white about going ‘all in’ in recovery with eating – responding to hunger, facing challenges and food fears etc… BUT what about the movement? […]
A Post Originally Written For Instagram Towards The Start Of My Recovery: Yesterday I ate (amongst other things): rocky road, iced Belgian bun, ice cream, magnum, cake, chocolate, trifle, crumpets and cheesy goods… In our diet obsessed world of today, many would consider this diet ‘unhealthy’ and look upon it with horror. However, I defy […]
Body… I have allowed this illness to ignore, disrespect, push, starve and abuse you for over ten years now…. Yet, despite this you have remained loyal to me. Now is your time. Tell me what you need and I might not always get it right first time but I will learn to listen and to […]
Sometimes your personal situation or circumstances won’t feel right or conducive to recovery… There will be so many times the eating disorder will try to convince you to wait until the right time or when you are in the right place mentally or physically to continue with your recovery journey. BUT the longer we let […]
A Post Originally Written For Instagram Towards The Start Of My Recovery: I have been thinking more today about complacency in eating disorder recovery. Yesterday I reflected on my recovery journey so far and realised that I was making progress in recovery but I was pulling the plaster (band aid) off painfully slowly – one […]
A Post Originally Written For Instagram Towards The Start Of My Recovery: It has been an odd day today… I arranged to go and visit my grandparents who are in their 90s this morning and it was important to me to see them and spend time with them. However, I was caught by surprise at […]
It’s a new month… the first of July.Where did half the year go?There is definitely something to the time going by faster the older we get theory! Often I see and hear people in ED recovery start renewed determinations or commitments at the start of a new month or the start of a new week […]
A Post Originally Written For Instagram Towards The Start Of My Recovery: One thing I’ve noticed since starting this renewed recovery effort is that now I’m consistently eating more and my brain is slowly trusting more food is coming regularly, I’m more relaxed about eating faster and less mindfully too. When deep in restricted eating […]
A Post Originally Written For Instagram Towards The Start Of My Recovery: Today my parents went out to a garden centre with my grandparents and returned with these chocolates for me that was a special gift, chosen specially for me by my 95 year old, very much loved Grandad. Of course my grandparents know about […]
A Post Originally Written For Instagram Towards The Start Of My Recovery: I have been thinking about recovery motivation this evening… I’ve recently returned from some time away travelling (trying to run from the eating disorder – unfortunately it doesn’t work as the illness kept following!)…I love travelling and being able to travel freely and […]
A Post Originally Written For Instagram Towards The Start Of My Recovery: Some mornings I wake up and the automatic eating disorder brain pathways are so strong that it can be easy to forget I’m not to follow them and need to walk another path today too and not just yesterday!I therefore have to give […]
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