Image credit: IG @gc_doodles I hope you know your kindness takes the pain away, even if briefly, and that it never goes unnoticed. Sometimes I feel so overwhelmed by support, I lose my words. I hope you feel seen and heard and comforted, in the way you do for me. I have survived because of…
Thoughts Right Now
I am a leach. I will attach and suck you dry of all that you have available to give me. I am always taking, taking, taking, taking. It will never stop. I will never not be a leach. I can’t be filled up enough, I am endlessly, disappointingly, needy. I am poison. I am only…
An Open Letter to My Treatment Team at Christmas Time
Dear Team, I very much appreciate that word; team. Maybe it's my athletic upbringing or my degree in sports leadership, but "team" means so much more to me than the dictionary definition: a number of persons associated in some joint action. In my case "joint action" is eating disorder recovery, and "persons" equals my therapist, dietitian,…
