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Being newly sober, no one mentioned to me that other bad habits, behaviors, or addictions would rear their ugly faces during my recovery, so my bulimia took place of my drug and alcohol addiction.
As someone in recovery from an eating disorder, I know what it’s like to have a less than great relationship with your body. On these days when those pesky ED thoughts pop into my head, I try to show my body some love. Here are ways you can treat your body this month.
For me, recovery has been more than treating my eating disorder. It has been a journey of acceptance and radical self love. To celebrate recovery month, I’ve written a love letter to the parts of myself that I once despised and misused.
Robin McIntosh, Workit Health's Co-Founder and Co-CEO, celebrated 10 years in recovery from alcoholism, bulimia, and anorexia this year.
Here are 10 lessons she's learned along the way:
Let’s talk smoothies! They can be a powerhouse of nutrients to fuel your day and having them regularly in sobriety has a whole host of benefits.
March is National Nutrition Month. As a person recovering from a disordered relationship with food, I’m a big fan of making more mindful choices and this is a perfect opportunity to take stock of some powerful tools you can use to enhance your recovery.
'This Is Us' deals with many types of addiction: pain pill addiction, alcohol addiction, and food addiction. But how accurate is the show?
Dr. Valerie Mason-John is the co-founder of 8 Step Recovery and one of the leaders in the secular recovery movement. I tracked her down to ask about her history and her own recovery, as well as the movement she's creating.
New Year's resolutions can feel daunting, but they don't have to be complicated or self-punishing. The new year is a great time for reflection and setting goals.
This culture goes far beyond our society’s usual offenses of passing heavily photoshopped images off as real bodies or promoting a different fad diet every week. I’m talking about entire blogs, sites, and trending hashtags that actively promote disordered eating.
Learning to care for ourselves isn’t easy, especially if we have spent years abusing our body with disordered eating. Even though we may have stopped harming ourselves, the process of recovery goes beyond stopping that behavior—we need to learn how to take care of our needs.
I’ll never forget the first time I discovered that food could help me escape; I was around six years old.
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