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Let me summarize how life has become even more difficult in the past 24 hours. First of all, Supermum lost her job yesterday. Just like that, my parents are both unemployed and we are uninsured come May. How can hard-working, honest, creative, energetic and thoughtful people be dismissed? What kind of mother-fucking, conservative, gun-toting jerks dismiss my mom, the most tolerant, easy-going person I know? I can’t wrap my mind around it, so I’ll leave it at that for now.
Secondly, I really like my nutritionist, but even I cannot fully appreciate one’s expertise when one tells me that I cannot consume starches of any sort for a month. After that month of letting my stomach and other organs heal, I can try and see how much starch I can tolerate.
This is all too intense to dwell on right now, so I’m signing off. I usually wouldn’t say something like this: but keep us in your thoughts.

Reflections

The previous 30 days have been very eye-opening, inspirational and challenging. It’s not easy to come up with a blog every single day. It has taken a lot of energy. You know that I am creating 3 books, a 21-part newsletters and a Body Image Revolution course and blogging every single day next to having …

Recovery: What Does Change Have To Do With It?

Recovery is all about change, isn’t it? You have to change your entire life in order to recover from your eating disorder. It’s scary. It’s new. It’s difficult. It’s something nobody wants to do. But it’s the only way out. The only way forward. To be quite honest, I’ve had a very difficult week. My …

Recovery Toolbox

Sometimes pictures express more than a thousand words, which is why I chose to simply show you what helped me through the dark days of recovery. How about you? Which tips and tricks do you have for us? Recovery Toolbox is a post from: Fighting Anorexia

Recovery: This Is My Song

I had a hard time deciding which song to choose for this post. I was going back and forth between Destiny’s Child’s “Survivor” or Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way”. Both are songs that I relate a lot to and have helped me find perspective, strength, courage and a myriad of inspiration. But I ended up …

Recovery And The Power Of Letting Go

This is a guest post by Gina Chirichella. I spend a lot of time on my own blog writing dance metaphors for recovery. There are a few reasons for this. Besides the fact that I LOVE dance and finally get to take classes on a regular basis and I love metaphor (it’s my favorite literary …

Recovery

The JourneyOne day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice — though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. But you didn’t stop. You knew what you had …

RECOVERING FROM ANOREXIA…LIVE AND LET GO.

One of my favorite songs by Paul McCartney is “Let it be”, it actually was inspired by a dream he had about his mother who died of cancer when he was a teenager. Paul was going through a rough patch with the Beatles at the time and her exact words to him in his dream where “it will […] …

Recovering From An Eating Disorder: Take Flight Or Prepare To Stand By

I always have always been able to run long distances. It’s something I used to hate, but have actually learned to love. The key to running distance, is you have to keep a good pace. You can’t try to run really hard, as you will tire too fast, you can’t run really slow or you …

RADER PROGRAMS…. CARING FOR COCOONS.

Anybody who knows me whether it be notoriously or in real life, knows I have a deep passion for sharing my story of survival from a severe Eating Disorder. Although I have learned to use my story as a platform to provide a sense of hope for those who have suffered, or still are, […] …

Q&A With Lisa Kantor: How To Get Coverage For The Treatment Of My Eating Disorder

Seeking treatment for an eating disorder can be emotionally and financially draining. The attorneys at Kantor & Kantor reached out to the eating disorder community to find out what types of questions people had when looking for insurance coverage for the treatment of eating disorders. To read the questions and answers, click the link below. …

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