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Heavens… Spring IS in the Air!
March 25, 2008 in Access to ED Care/Treatment, Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa, Adolescent Eating Behaviors, anorexia, Anorexia Nervosa, anthologies, Behavioral Health, Body Acceptance, Body Image & Writing, Bulimia, Bulimia Nervosa, Carer Support, COE (Compulsive Over-Eating), Constructs of Pyschological Distress, Culture, Disordered Eating Behaviors, Eating Disorder Advocacy, Eating Disorder Treatment, Eating Disorders, Eating Disorders and Mental Health, Eating Patterns and Weight Related Issues, ED advocacy, ED Hope & Recovery, ED recovery, EDNOS, eliminating stigma, Emotional Healing, Emotional Journeys, Empowered Families, Empowered Parents, Engaged Families, Environmental factores influencing ED's, Erase Stigma of Anorexia, Evidence Based Treatment for Eating Disorders, family, Family & Culture, Family Based Therapy, Family supported ED treatment, Family-Based Therapy and Eating Disorders, Health, Health & Wellbeing, Hope & Recovery for ED's, Improvement of Psychological and Behavioral Treatments, Journal writing and ED, Mental Health, Mythology and Healing, Parent Advocates, Parent Support, Residential ED Treatment Centers, Seasonal Festivals, Self-Care, Symbolic Imagery, Thoughts, Writing & Healing | Tags: Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa, Adolescent Eating Disorders, anorexia, Anorexia Nervosa, Behavioral Health, Body Acceptance, body image, Body Image & Writing, Bulimia, Bulimia Nerovsa, Carer Support and Eating Disorders, Constructs of Pyschological Distress and Anorexia, Disordered Eating Behaviors, Eating Disorder Activism, Eating Disorder Advocacy, Eating Disorder Hope&Recovery, Eating Disorder Treatment, eating disordered, Eating Disorders, Eating Patterns and Weight Related Issues, ED advocacy, ED Hope & Recovery, ED recovery, Emotional Healing and ED's, Emotional Journeys, Empowered Families and Eating Disorders, Empowered Parents and ED's, family, Family Support and Eating Disorders, Family supported ED treatment, Family-Based Therapy and Eating Disorders, Fesitvals and Ritual/Culture, Health, Health & Wellbeing, Life, Mental Health, Personal Empowerment and ED Recovery, Personal Stories, Recovery, Sacred festivals | 7 comments
This month is such a busy month… I’m very blessed and so very happy that I’ve sold two paintings (not current work, but nonetheless- yeah!) and it was a carefree act on my end, thinking nothing would move someone to be so compelled for work that honestly doesn’t resonate for me personally right now– but all good!
Easter was nice, we are a culturally diverse family (hubby from India) so we partake in other various festivals and events, Holi (see above) being one this month too– my birthday is coming up (not telling how many candles- tsk!) and having our daughter home from residential after nearly three months of treatment is no light lot.
I love spring! New green shoots pushing forth from the ground– and the snow is finally melting here- yippee! New life, new beginnings… change.
And while our daughter is definitely on her road to recovery, this is not a easy road for her to travel– she still needs lots of love, encouragement and support. She is also quite young, so the decision to “just do it” and fully connect both physically and intellectually to what has taken place over the past year is not all there for her to wade through and have immediate light-bulb moments and decide that today is the day she knows ED is behind her- for good. She herself has openly admitted she “is not ready” to say ado to her tango with ED– not yet.
She has however been slowly “emptying” and “letting go” of ED– one day at a time. A deep breath in and a very long exhale out…
“What will become of me if I let go of my eating disorder?”
“How many times have you tried to let go by hanging on?”
It doesn’t work… and it doesn’t happen all at once. One day, one step, one mouthful at a time.
Our daughter did something incredibly powerful a few weeks back. She wrote a “good-bye” letter to ED and she opened herself up to share this moving note:
ED,
I need to leave you. You have made me do some relapses and only made me think about shapes, sizes or weights. I feel really bad for leaving you but it’s the only way I can stay on the path of recovery and be able to achieve my goals in life. I will miss you a lot.
You have helped clear my feeling of stress out and do something that makes me feel comfortable (restrict). You have really hurt me. My friends and family have been here supporting me, and it seems that you want to shove my parents away. You also have not made me be able to hang out with my friends and then just isolate.
ED, I plan to take care of myself and to listen to myself more than YOU. I plan to become a ballet dancer and veterinarian, and enjoy my life and live my dreams. You may come back to me when I look into the mirror but I won’t let you take my passions away.
Good-bye ED-
Indeed. With the snow continuing to melt, the extended light of the days and the darkness of winter slowly turning more and more towards spring, I feel a renewed sense of Hope and Strength for our daughter’s continued striving forward towards full health, full Life. There will be days, as there already are, that will challenge and the proverbial two steps forward, three-five steps back… but she’ll get there and we’re all right there behind her cheering her on!
Happy Spring- Happy Holi-Hai!
: Eclipse Solaire :
February 21, 2008 in anorexia, Anorexia Nervosa, anthologies, Behavioral Health, Body Acceptance, Body Image & Writing, Books, Bulimia, Bulimia Nervosa, Carer Support, COE (Compulsive Over-Eating), Community Health Education, Disordered Eating Behaviors, Dr Anita Johnston, Eating by the Light of the Moon, Eating Disorder Advocacy, Eating Disorder Treatment, Eating Disorders, Eating Patterns and Weight Related Issues, ED advocacy, ED Hope & Recovery, Empowered Families, Empowered Parents, family, Family Education/Resources, Health, Health Care, Improvement of Psychological and Behavioral Treatments, Lunar Eclipse, Mental Health, Mythology and Healing, Parent Advocates, Personal Empowerment, Personal Narratives, Phases of the Moon, Psychology & Counseling, Psychology and Myth, Public Health and Nutrition, Relationships, Self-Care, Self-Help Narratives, Stories that Heal, Women & Writing, Women and ED, women/psychology, Writing & Healing | Tags: anorexia, Anorexia Nervosa, Behavioral Health, Body Acceptance, Books, Bulimia, Bulimia Nerovsa, Carer Support, Dr Anita Johnston, Earth Cycles, Eating by the Light of the Moon, Eating Disorders, Eating Patterns and Weight Related Issues, ED advocacy, ED Awareness, Empowered Parents, family, Family Support for Eating Disorders, Food, Health & Wellbeing, Life, Lunar Eclipse, Mental Health, Mindful Eating, Mythology for Healing, Nutrition, Phases of the Moon, Psychology & Counseling, Psychology and Myth, Recovery, Self-Acceptance, self-awareness, Self-Care, Self-Healing, self-help, Stories that Heal, Support for Eating Disorders, Writing&Healing | 2 comments
I find Eating By The Light Of The Moon to be a fitting thought for the day…
Your body is precious.
It is your vehicle for awakening,
treat it with care.
-BUDDHA
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