In honnor of Eating Disorder Awarness Month, we are taking part in the pro recovery project and hoping to spread awarness about eating disorders and eating disorder recovery. It may seem scary to get help and start to recover. At times,recovery can be stressfull and challenging and the ED thoughts can be overwhelming. The ED thoughts may convince you that you dont need to recover. Making the choice to recover is a life changing expereince. It may be hard to let go of your eating disorder but in the end,it is for the better. Many times during my recovery,I was afraid to let go of my eating disorder and turly experience life. It wa sscary,as the eating disorder was something familiar to me,something I took comfrot in. It was not untill I started my journey to recover and started to let go of my eating disorder that I truly understood the value of living a ED free life. ARecovery can be scary because we are enetring the unknown and leaving our ED’s behind. lot of times,the ED thoughts only tell us the negativies about recovery or we only focus on the negatives. Here is a list of all the positive things about recovery. The next time you are doubting recovery,take a look at this list and be reminded of all the good things that come from letting go of your eating disorder and starting the journey to recover! Letting go of your eating disorder is an important step in recovery! This list is taken from our “tips for recovery page” and can be found there as well! We are here for you every step of the way! We can recover together! <3
Positive Things About Recovery
- More head-space for hopes and dreams
- Stopping the cycle of negative, shaming, depressing, sick thinking
- Getting lost in laughter
- Regaining trust
- Having eyes full of Life
- Finding an identity outside of food
- Enjoy food?? YES!!
- A social life? THAT TOO!!
- Discovering worth beyond the number on the scale
- Life less interrupted (without going to treatment and whatnot)
- Having a less judgmental head
- Better body temperature regulation
- Self love
- Self acceptance
- Physical activity for FUN
- The option to procreate
- Experience emotions, not just be numb
- More energy!
- More joy
- Family and friends aren’t that worried anymore
- In the morning, not dreading the day to come
- Freedom from the insidious monster (Ed)
- Physical strength, weariness diminished
- Negating the lies that are screaming when confronted by a mirror
- No more body comparisons
- So much less anxiety ( when further along in recovery )
- A mind for beautiful creative thinking, not calculating calories
- Glow-y skin
- To help others
- Enjoy Life
- Making goals
- Beating death
- Having pride for accomplishments (well deserved)
- Gratitude for little things
- Confidence
- Motivation
- Having Hope
- Genuine smiles
- Being able to inspire someone
- Saying NO when necessary and not feeling so guilty
- Things can actually be funny
- Progress not perfecktion
- Breaking problems into baby steps, more manageable, higher chances for success
- Being able to relax
- Eye contact
- Staying in the moment
i also want to add something i have gained from my drug and alcohol recovery. These are the Promises that are included in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. With just three years sober, much of this is true for me. Here they are:
If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows. Self-seeking will slip away. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.
Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us
. We will intuitively
know how to handle situations which used to baffle us.
Please check out the Fighting Anorexia site which started this pro-recovery project! Together we cna spread awarness about eating disorders and eating disorder recovery
(via noregretsjust-love)
