When it comes to eating disorder recovery, the question becomes how free do you want to be? How free do you want to be from Ed’s control of your life? Do you want to be a little recovered, or do you want to be fully recovered? In early recovery, I’ll…Read More
“Thanks for telling me I have cancer,” Amy texted me several days ago. We had connected for over a month about the very real truth that she needed to go to treatment. She didn’t have cancer though. Amy needed help for an eating disorder, yet, like many, including myself for…Read More
I struggled with eating-disordered thoughts and behaviors for over twenty years, and even I don’t fully understand the illness. So, I never could expect my family to understand. Yet, as a young adult when I finally sought help for anorexia nervosa, I did need my family to listen to me,…Read More
Who am I without Ed? This is a question that I used to ask myself a lot. Apparently, this is a question that many of us in recovery from eating disorders as well as other mental illnesses, like PTSD, end up wondering about. Our illness can essentially hijack so much…Read More
When I bought this guitar, I was at the height of my battle with anorexia and bulimia. I didn’t have the energy to push down the strings or to concentrate. So, I actually took the guitar and I shoved it in the back of my closet. Well, ten years later,…Read More