To stay in recovery, you must be responsible for finding your own motivation. Remember, motivation may not be easy to come by at first. It will proba….

Intense pain often pushed me to make changes. The pain of the eating disorder pushed me into recovering from eating-disordered behaviors, and then th….

Recovery is about making room for the real me to exist..

Connect with supportive people who empower you. The more you jump into your life, the further away from Ed you can get. Don't have a backup plan for ….

Replace perfectionism with persistence. After all, in recovery and life, it's persistence that really pays off. Forget about perfection..

Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn't be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn't..

Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times..

Sometimes I felt lonely because I pushed people away for so long that I honestly didn't have many close connections left. I was physically isolated a….

Anita Johnston, Ph.D., author of Eating in the Light of the Moon, taught me to look in the mirror with curiosity rather than fear. So I may look at m….

Ironically, this physically weak feeling signifies that I'm actually getting stronger. I know from my past that I will ultimately feel strong if I ju….

In the past, I was a perpetual victim; how I was doing in any given moment depended on what happened to me. Today I do my best to avoid this kind of ….

I would not encourage you to go through the sweat, blood, and tears of the recovery process only to reach some kind of mediocre state where you were ….

Oftentimes, especially during my recovery, I didn't need to think about everything I was doing wrong; instead, I needed to focus more on what I was d….

I went from really hating my body, to disliking it, to accepting it but not exactly liking it, then accepting it and liking it, and now I love it..