Breaking up with Ana

Hello! So this week is eating disorder awareness week, which is basically a week in which awareness is raised on eating disorders and their treatment/lack of treatment. Last year I got involved with the media quite a lot, and shared my story with multiple different people. However this year I want to do something that is more inclusive and helpful on my own platform, as sometimes it's hard to relate exactly to what a specific person is going through, as ED's are so so different and present differently in different people. It's so important to remember that there are so many types of eating disorders out there, some more well known than others. Because of this, I kind of just want to explore each one in a little bit of detail. I don't really like labels or labelling someone as 'Bulimic', or a 'binge eater' etc, but for the purposes of this I'll talk about each condition with its generic labels. Even if you cannot relate completely to one of these

Hello lovelies! So today marks 2 years in recovery for me. 2 years since I decided that I no longer wanted to be controlled by my eating disorder and that I wanted to commit to the best of my ability to living a life that is full of self care, love and looking after my inner child. Granted, this isn't always the case - as I like to remind people, recovery isn't linear so there is no possible way that over the past 2 years I would have been in 'recovery mindset' 24/7. That's unrealistic. Someone once said to me that it takes double the amount of time you suffered with an eating disorder to overcome it, so given that, I'm in such early recovery still, therefore i need to give myself some slack. It's not all doom and gloom though! Yes I've had weeks, and sometimes a couple of months at a time when I've really struggled, but on the whole recovery has always been on my mind. No matter how bad things have got, I've continued to go to therapy w