On Your Mark...

Often the voices and shame are hidden deep beneath the surface for someone struggling with an eating disorder. This post actively exposes them and by doing so, they lose their power. So here's to exposing the voices and shame!

After being discharged from the hospital, I found myself in this weird limbo. Exercise and school were my life and I wasn't supposed to exercise and it was summer break, so no school. I did have two part time jobs- one at an ice cream shop and the other at a bakery- but for someone who likes to have my day fully scheduled, there was still a lot of unaccounted time. I tried to take up some new hobbies; the ones that landed well (initially) were: pottery, weeding, picking up tr