What Happened to You

Healing your shame is key in healing your relationship with food and your body. It starts with changing the question “what’s wrong with me??” to “what happened to you?” When we make that simple shift, grace enters the room. What happened to you offers explanations, not excuses. It opens the gate to understanding. Understanding gives us knowledge, even in the most seemingly “irrational” situations. Your fear and your pain is not senseless. It may not seem fitting for the situation, and that just means we have more to learn.

Body Image, Self-Compassion, WeightGuest UserAugust 6, 2021body image help, trauma, eating disorder, eating disorder help near me, recovery warrior, recovery, cbt, cognitive distortions eating disorder recoveryComment

Farewell, February

Perhaps your heart hangs heavy this winter, or you are head-over-heels in love. When it comes to body image, many of us are somewhere along the complex spectrum of “love,” and likely with multiple paramours, if you will. As the month of romance comes to a close, consider crafting a thoughtful send-off by expressing to your body what’s in your heart. After all, it’s never to late for love.

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Grow as You Go Week 5: Bloom Where...ever You Want

Have you ever heard the phrase “bloom where you’re planted?” I have sometimes wondered, what does that really mean? I suppose the meaning changes when you actually know where you’re planted. For example…

Grow as You Go Week 4: Pest Control

On a scale of 1 to 2020, how much negativity are you facing today? When it comes to the struggle, I’m sure I don’t have to tell you how real it is. I am writing this in late September 2020, the gift that keeps on giving. (Or rather, taking.) On the one hand…

Body Image, Eating Disorder Community, Eating Disorder Recovery, Health At Every Size®, Self-CompassionGuest UserOctober 1, 2020all foods fit, negativity, pest, contact, boundries, body positive, resilience, recoveryComment

Grow as You Go Week 2: Cultivate Positivity

Sticking with a new venture sometimes feels even harder than beginning one. A little of the newness dissipates and some of the shine seems slightly less lustrous. I recently heard a phrase, “familiarity breeds contempt.” And it stopped me in my tracks; it was the truest thing I’d heard in a long time. So how do we keep ourselves in motion once the initial energy burst has expired?

Stories of Eating Disorder Recovery: Learning to Trust My Body

That is something that I would go back and tell myself a couple years ago when first starting recovery. With diet culture being as pervasive as it is, the message that our bodies are in constant need of fixing is creating a collective distrust among the inherent wisdom we hold. Trusting our bodies has become an abstract and strange concept.

Recovery Stories, Body ImageJamie MagdicFebruary 12, 2020recovery, eating disorder recovery story, how I recovered from my eating disorder, trusting my hunger cues, trusting my changing body, how to accept my body, why Health at every size is important to recovery, Health at Every Size, health at every size eating disorder recovery, our body's inherent wisdom, trusting my body in eating disorder recovery, weight restoration in eating disorder recoveryComment

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