Top 27 Quotes About Recovery From An Eating Disorder
#1. The good news, however, is that, also contrary to popular belief, full and lasting recovery from an eating disorder is possible.
Lynn Crilly
#2. Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what?" asked Wang-mu.
"I think those are the pertinent virtues, yes," said Peter.
"Then let's do it. That's us in spades.
Orson Scott Card
#3. 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
#4. 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
#6. I found heaven today. Her name is Mercy. She didn't see me because I was too tongue-tied to speak to her - Luke
Shannon Dermott
#7. It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
Jonathan Swift
#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. With Ed, I always pushed away the good and only heard the bad. Today, I let in the good.
Jenni Schaefer
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. Basically, when it comes to women, both aging and eating are somehow shameful.
Emma Woolf
#14. Guilt is a destructive and ultimately pointless emotion
Lynn Crilly
#15. My only choice was to fight my way out, even if I didn't think I would make it.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#16. THIRTEEN GREAT ICONS FELL FROM THE SKY, WHEN THEY CAME ALIVE, SIX CITIES DIED. REMEMBER 6/6. THE PROJECTS ARE SLAVERY. WE ARE NOT FREE. SILENCE IS NOT PEACE. REMEMBER THE DAY. DEATH TO THE SYMPAS, DEATH TO THE LORDS. DESTROY THE ICONS. REMEMBER.
Margaret Stohl
#17. I left myself out of humanity by focusing on differences. This isolation only strengthened Ed (17)
Jenni Schaefer
#18. They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
James Russell Lowell
#19. The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
Henri Bergson
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. People leave - that's what I was used to - but Isaac showed up.
Tarryn Fisher
#24. A suicide is tragic because nothing interrupted it.
Emma Woolf
#25. 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
#26. Sometimes it's hard to see the rainbow when there's been endless days of rain.
Christina Greer
#27. 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
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