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…

- Jenni Schaefer

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

- Jenni Schaefer

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 …

- Jenni Schaefer

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

- Jenni Schaefer

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 …

- Jenni Schaefer

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…

- Jenni Schaefer

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.

- Jenni Schaefer

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…

- Jenni Schaefer

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

- Jenni Schaefer