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Honestly sits top of my key values. I knew this already having explored values during previous psychological therapy. I have further reflected on my key values recently as part of thinking about identity and how my values form part of who I am. There was no question then that I would be completely open with… Read more
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In order to truly recover from anorexia and be able to enjoy a life of complete food freedom without any form of restriction or compensatory behaviours I must embrace a version of me that I have never known. This realisation occurred only a few weeks ago after a discussion with one of the clinicians on… Read more
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I’m not a teenage girl who doesn’t eat. I am a 44-year-old mother of two, diagnosed with anorexia in October last year. And I did eat a lot. Not enough however to fuel the rigorous amounts of exercise I put myself through at ridiculous hours of the morning. Yet this was admired by others who… Read more
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DISCLAIMER: two people can experience exactly the same scenario and their recollections differ. What follows are my memories and my interpretations of life events and experiences and if they are not one hundred percent accurate, it matters not in the context of how they have shaped who I have become. No blame is to be… Read more
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It makes sense that many of the thoughts, emotions and physical symptoms associated with anorexia are the result of the body going into ‘starvation mode’. In primitive times when food was scarce, it would be beneficial for a caveman’s thoughts to be preoccupied with food to motivate him to hunt. Numbing his emotions would maintain… Read more
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Hand on heart, chocolate digestives are up there with the greatest of my discoveries from the last three months. Only the dark ones mind you, the gingerbread ones at Christmas didn’t quite hit the same spot. I have also learned that I did have anorexia, and that I have been battling it to varying degrees… Read more
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