|  | | FREEDOM FROM EATING DISORDERS | | Eating Disorder Recovery |
| | A Transformational Journey
A transformational journey and process through a 24-year eating disorder. At the age of 36 - I am learning that my life is indeed about me -just like your life is about you and it is not until I learn to acknowledge and love all parts of myself will I be able to live a healthy life.
I say healthy - not thin. Health has nothing to do with numbers. I no longer feel the need to wear the perfect size or be the perfect weight. There are so many ways to decide whether or not someone is healthy. When I walk into the doctor and they ask me to step on the scale I simply say, “I don’t do that -thank you anyway.”
I want the world to know my story and that Eating disorders are NOT pretty and there are so many who are suffering because they don’t fit the DSM IV criteria -I was told for a long time that I didn’t look like I had an eating disorder - I was told to simply eat from all the food groups. The individuals that made those suggestions to me were not in my chaotic mind with all the negativity swarming around -telling me that the world would be better off if I were dead.
That is just a glimpse of what I have to say in regards to eating disorders - I am very passionate about this topic because I have lived it and spent years having others tell me there was nothing they could do - or that I didn’t look like I had an eating disorder and in essence they were telling me to get over it.
What is the answer to eating disorders? LOVE for myself as a human being -because somewhere I got the idea that I wasn’t enough.
Encouragement for Others
Eating disorders are not about the food - as many have stated so many times before - they are about how we feel about ourselves as human beings, living on this planet.
Somewhere along the line being selfish and having self-care became construed and children were taught not to think about themselves.
Empowerment is the answer -taking an active role in our own lives and learning how to really listen to one another and to give one another the dignity of our own life journey and simply being with us.
Eating disorders are not something to get over -they are something to be embraced with love. When we love the parts inside us that hurt -the healing process can begin.
Mary Pat is the author of Give ED a Voice. To find out more about her book, click on the link below.
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