Quotes About Recovery Eating Disorder

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

Laurie Halse Anderson

#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. One of the most startling events in my life was when my older son was about 16, and he blamed me for all the troubles of the world. So I, I felt like telling him, 'Oh no, I was just like you when I was your age; I wanted to change the world, too.'

Robert Fogel

#5. What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.

Ernest Gaines

#6. Knowledge without devotion to God produces hatred.

Sathya Sai Baba

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

Lynn Crilly

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Price is not the same thing as value. Over the long term, value should be the same as a price that leads to proper decisions about consumption, exploitation, and investment, without extinguishing the resource.

Ian Harris

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

Jenni Schaefer

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Emma Woolf

#15. There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

Frank Zappa

#16. Guilt is a destructive and ultimately pointless emotion

Lynn Crilly

#17. 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

#18. You can have nothing and be sad, or you can have nothing and be, like, positive and look at it in a good way and try to make your circumstance better.

Slim Jimmy

#19. Grief is a killer, isn't it?" he said. "Brings you right up to the truth.

Nicole Mones

#20. You might be a redneck if you have every episode of Hee Haw on tape.

Jeff Foxworthy

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

Jenni Schaefer

#22. Life is a gift. We don't earn it. We don't own it. Learn to be thankful for the time that you have.

Joshua David Swift

#23. Do you know why I have so patiently translated Poe? Because he resembled me. The first time I opened one of his books, I saw with terror and rapture subjects dreamed by me and described by him, twenty years earlier. CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Otto Rahn

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. How peaceful a bedroom is without a man in it.

Dorothy Eden

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

Emma Woolf

#29. It is not an arbitrary "decree of God," but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow; for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#30. 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

#31. If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift; is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine.

Willa Cather

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

Christina Greer