56 Quotes About Eating-disorder-recovery

Ask yourself what you love. Without fear of consequences, without force or shame or guilt. What motivates you to be kind, to take care of your body, your spirit, others, the earth? Trust the longing, trust the love that can be translated into action without the threat of punishment. Trust that you will not destroy what matters most. Give yourself that much.

I also know that I have forgiven myself. And that it’s okay to laugh at your mistakes, even the dangerous dumb ones.

Do you want to know the answer? The easiest, simplest solution to all of your hiding, and purging, the end of your exhausting, isolating, repulsive routine?Just eat. Like a normal person.

It is called a disorder for a reason. Because it makes no rational sense. It’s completely counterproductive and, the saddest part, it is also dissatisfying and damaging.

I think we all need to be able to laugh at ourselves every now and then. Otherwise, you’ll take yourself so seriously, nothing will ever get through.

The very ironic, almost laughable thing about all of this, is that all the punishment and pain you’re inflicting on yourself is an infinitely harder way to accomplish your end goal of looking and feeling good.

Eating disorders are insidious and subtly manipulative. The behaviors that initially feel like relief are the same ones that will eventually ruin you.

If you hold on to any part of your eating disorder, you are always one step away from a relapse.

A really important and underestimated part of recovery is allowing yourself to fall apart without rushing in to fix it.