Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life Quotes

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When we feel like giving up, like we are beyond help, we must remember that we are never beyond hope. Holding on to hope has always motivated me to keep trying. I have found this hope by connecting with others. I’ve found it not only in individuals...

Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life

anxiety becomes high energy when taken to the light. For me, it worked like this: I used to live in a constant state of anxiety, worrying about the past and the future. Now I do my best to focus my attention on the present moment. So the mental energ...

Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life

Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn’t be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn’t.

Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life

My job is not to worry about what everyone else thinks about me but to discover what I think. If I actually want to know what someone else thinks, my job is then to ask that person. More often than not, however, it isn’t important to know. It’s o...

Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life

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

Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life

Intense pain often pushed me to make changes. The pain of the eating disorder pushed me into recovering from eating-disordered behaviors, and then the emotional turmoil I experienced without those behaviors (not knowing how to cope with perfectionism...

Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life

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 stan...

Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life

Sometimes I felt lonely because I pushed people away for so long that I honestly didn’t have many close connections left. I was physically isolated and disconnected from the world. Sometimes I felt lonely in a crowded room. This kind of loneliness ...

Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life

Holding myself to perfectionistic standards, I used to think I had to become lifelong friends with everyone who entered my life. This was exhausting, and I now know it’s not true. I believe the old saying that people come into your life for a reaso...

Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life

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.

Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life

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.

Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life

In the past, I was a perpetual victim; how I was doing in any given moment depended on what happened to me. Today I do my best to avoid this kind of ‘victim thinking.’ Instead, how I am doing is determined by how I respond to what happens to me.

Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life

I would not encourage you to go through the sweat, blood, and tears of the recovery process only to reach some kind of mediocre state where you were just ‘managing’ the illness. It is possible to live without Ed.

Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life

During the worst stages of my eating disorder, I was all-or-none with food—either bingeing or not eating. Much of my experience was, in fact, that if I ate anything, I would eat everything. I began to understand that this happened because I was sta...

Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life

Anita Johnston, Ph.D., author of Eating in the Light of the Moon, taught me to look in the mirror with curiosity rather than fear. So I may look at my reflection and think, ‘That’s interesting. I wonder why my body seems bigger today than it did ...

Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life

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

Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life

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

Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life

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.

Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life