If your recovery from a restrictive eating disorder involves a restrictive diet and a strict exercise routine, then I’d really strongly advise you to reconsider and reevaluate. Really.
What’s stopping you from letting it go? What are you scared of?
"What you are doing to yourself is more unhealthy than any “bad” food you think there is."
Source: My amazing dietician (via kidsontherunn)
It’s never easy to accept that our bodies are fallible and flawed, but when do we draw the line?
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Girls, we flirt with death everytime we etch a new tally mark into our skin. I know how to split my wrists like a battlefield too, but the time has come for us to reclaim our bodies — our bodies deserve more than to be war-torn and collateral, offering this fuckdom as a pathetic means to say ”I only know how to exist when I’m wanted”.
Girls like us are hardly ever wanted, you know?
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So try this: take your hands over your bumpy loved body naked, and remember the first time you touched someone with the sole purpose of learning all of them, touched them because the light was pretty on them, and the dust in the sunlight danced the way your heart did. Touch yourself with a purpose; your body is the most beautiful royal.
Love your body the way your mother loved your baby feet, […] and remember: this is important.
"Do not look at yourself with disgust, you are a gift to this earth. You are beautiful, you are a light, an energy, an essence. You are nature herself."
Source: Heidi Pickett (via re-examine)
(Source: purplebuddhaproject)
Things to remember when you want to say “no,” assert yourself, and ask for what you want
- If I say “no” to someone and they get angry, this does not mean I should have said “yes.”
- Saying “no” does not make me selfish.
- Although I want to please the people I care about, I do not have to please them all the time.
- It is okay to want or need something from someone else.
- My wants and needs are just as important as those of anyone else.
- I have the right to assert myself, even if I may inconvenience others.
"Until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex; But eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, Stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories and make peace with them."
Source: Iyanla Vanzant (via wanduring)
(Source: a-beautiful-journey2)
