Genetically inherited adaptation to famine meets personality traits or, another evolutionary hypotheI have taken a longer break from writing about anorexia, recovery, or the self-growth and awareness that arise as you are almost forced,...
Recovery, community and relating to others.When it comes to my recovery from anorexia, I’d say that I didn’t follow what seems to be the standard course of treatment. Or perhaps, I...
No black sheep in full recovery.We all want to be special, pull off something grand, be the exception to the rule. Anorexia almost made it possible. Almost, because...
Living in the post recovery era.Reconnecting over dinner with an old friend recently made me realize how close one can feel to someone who has either lived or is...
Recovery - An old journal entry.This may sound like just another idealistic, cringing type of post about the journey through recovery from an eating disorder;...
Don’t wait for an illness you cannot see.After locking myself up for a whole spring, moodier and more stressed than I had ever been, pounds shredding off my body like grated...
That's recovery.As I am sitting in my apartment tonight, having gone through two bags of pretzels and a full jar of chocolates, after a rather copious...
"Healing comes in waves". My stages of change.Not even a week into your first attempt at recovery and you soon find yourself in an inexplicable physical and emotional mess. A chaos...
Wouldn’t be a recovery journey without visiting the land of VeganismIf you are recovering from an eating disorder, I wouldn’t be surprised if you also toyed with the idea of veganism. A lot of the...
Walking with Anorexia.Anorexic genes thrive in calorie deficits! See, I loved to walk. I would walk from Tribeca to the Upper East Side. I would walk from the...
The Unconditional Permission to EatI often find myself looking back at the whole “recovery thing”. What a messy process. I can analyze it over and over, and still, develop...
At times, they won't understand.You see pictures of yourself on their phones, tracking your figure, your weight, as if they were the first and last signs of anorexia and...