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My liberation -

This is my liberation. This is my time to feel alive. It’s been a long time coming, but I’m singing now and I’m holding onto each golden moment. This is my emancipation, my thawing. This is finding my...

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Emotional Healing

I could be swallowed up by the regret, be dragged way down into the pits of despair – if I lingered on it for too long. The remorse has only come with the recovery. It’s the one saving grace – because...

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Clouds Clearing

After going to hell – and back, a strange thing seems to have happened; and, like a lens that has been unexpectedly clicked into focus, things suddenly look a lot brighter. You don’t take anything for...

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Back to the Beginning

I am having a bit of a hard time. The stuff that I thought I’d sorted out years ago has made a reappearance; and, without the crutch of an eating disorder, I have been caught off guard. This was not...

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Institutionalised

I am just beginning to realise how institutionalised I had become. I am finding the ‘normal’ world a scary place. It speaks a language that I don’t really understand. I am comfortable in terms of CPAs...

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One Life

Last week, I was asked what the key turning points in my recovery were. There were quite a few – my teeth, another close call, the isolation, the increasing social disconnection, my brother, despair –...

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Re Dis-covery

I started to write an eloquent post about the semantics of the word “recovery”. It has stuttered and spluttered, for the past few weeks, and I have made myself feel misunderstood. I do not want to...

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Trusting the process

A while ago, I wrote a post called Clinging on to the Past. It was a difficult post to write as I had to acknowledge that I might be holding onto my eating disorder; and also, because I couldn’t see...

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