30/03/2026
Great post, well worth a read
I have struggled with eating disorders for a huge part of my adult life.
I do consider myself to be healed in that I eat well now; joyfully and abundantly, and with love. I don’t weigh or measure myself or food. I feed my body what it needs - which is quite something if you have been where I have been.
But… there is an element of unrest occurring, the dormant beast is being called out of hiding by the constant stream of chatter around weight loss jabs and the new era of ‘skinny’ - this ‘trend’ is like smelling salts to the monster within me.
And I want to share because sharing takes something shameful and secret out of the darkness into the light and may just be the thing that saves it festering and rotting into something much worse.
Sharing ‘ugly’ things is a gift - for yourself and whomever needs to hear it. As I always say - that’s where the love lives.
(Oh and you may be thinking ‘but she is not overweight’ and if you are, remember, weight is rarely the reason eating disorders start.)
Now, I am SO very happy for anyone who is losing weight right now, who previously couldn’t. You deserve this, I am onboard. Cheerleading all the way.
But to all my fellow recovering perfectionists who know the pain of this condition when it turns food into poison and flesh into the enemy - please know… you are not alone.
Awareness and acceptance is fresh air, medicine, and sunshine to this disease.
Sometimes that is enough to bring your safety back - just saying it out loud and knowing that you are not at fault for feeling this way.
This world is intent on you feeling this way, in fact.
But if your eyes are on a bigger prize now; longevity, joy, love, inner-peace - living life for all the right reasons and not for how it looks on the outside - then do not be derailed.
This is a phase and it will pass.
You are not a phase - your body is your home FOR LIFE.
Eat for your bones, your cells, your brain and your heart that pumps every second like the miracle-machine that it is.
And eat for your inner child sometimes too…
She is your fire and her joy is worth more than any gram of protein.
You are safe.
Keep thriving.
I see you. ###
