Quotes About Eating Disorder Recovery

#1. I left myself out of humanity by focusing on differences. This isolation only strengthened Ed (17)

Jenni Schaefer

#2. Bear in mind you have a life to live. There is an incredible loss. There is a profound grief. And there is, in the end, after a long time and more work than you ever thought possible, a time when it gets easier.

Marya Hornbacher

#3. Connect with supportive people who empower you. The more you jump into your life, the further away from Ed you can get. Don't have a backup plan for living. Live today. [ ... ] Trust in God. Believe in yourself. Get friends and family members to stand behind you. That's the only backup you'll need.

Jenni Schaefer

#4. The good news, however, is that, also contrary to popular belief, full and lasting recovery from an eating disorder is possible.

Lynn Crilly

#5. Healing from an eating disorder is a personal journey - the medicine is whatever reminds you that you do in fact want to live, and that you are worthy and capable of love.

Shannon Kopp

#6. I think loving someone, despite what people think, is FEARLESS. <3

Taylor Swift

#7. Clinicians have told me that our emotional is arrested at the age that an eating disorder takes control of our lives. After we recover, we pick up emotionally where we left off at that age.

Jenni Schaefer

#8. With Ed, I always pushed away the good and only heard the bad. Today, I let in the good.

Jenni Schaefer

#9. Oftentimes, especially during my recovery, I didn't need to think about everything I was doing wrong; instead, I needed to focus more on what I was doing right - and then do more of the right stuff. I needed to live more in the solution.

Jenni Schaefer

#10. Recovery isn't easy, at first. It takes time. It takes more work, sometimes, than you think you're willing to do. But it is worth every hard day, every tear, every terrified moment. It's worth it, because the trade-off is this: you let go of your eating disorder, and you get back your life.

Marya Hornbacher

#11. Basically, when it comes to women, both aging and eating are somehow shameful.

Emma Woolf

#12. Guilt is a destructive and ultimately pointless emotion

Lynn Crilly

#13. My only choice was to fight my way out, even if I didn't think I would make it.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#14. This woman's size protected her
from the hurts of the world
but it also imprisoned her soul.
As the merry-go-round revolved, she ate another French fry,as a silent scream frozen on her face.

David W. Earle

#15. From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

John Updike

#16. Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times. Real hope combined with doing nothing has never pulled me through.

Jenni Schaefer

#17. The reasons for Emma's illness and for her decision to allow life in, rather than die, are intertwined and involve the beginnings of her feelings of belonging, of safety and of competence to be in the world.

Carol Lee

#18. To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it.

John Madden

#19. Ironically, this physically weak feeling signifies that I'm actually getting stronger. I know from my past that I will ultimately feel strong if I just sit with the feeling and experience it.

Jenni Schaefer

#20. A suicide is tragic because nothing interrupted it.

Emma Woolf

#21. The notion that life could be any different - that it could be better - becomes inconceivable. You forget how good it was to be normal. Worst of all, you come to believe that you prefer it this way.

Emma Woolf

#22. There was only one punch. Tony Blair rang me and he said 'Are you OK?' and I said 'Yes', and he said 'Well, what happened?' and I said 'I was just carrying out your orders. You told us to connect with the electorate, so I did.

John Prescott

#23. Thank You, Lord, that You are with me in everything that I face. No matter what comes against me, You are greater and more powerful. I ask You to be with me in the things I face today. I praise You and Your greatness in the midst of all that seems large and looming in my life.

Stormie O'martian

#24. I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is.

Anthony Horowitz

#25. Sometimes it's hard to see the rainbow when there's been endless days of rain.

Christina Greer