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Parents and Partners, Skills & Strategies
04.07.10
Call for Recovery Stories!
04.05.10
Please submit your story of ED recovery for upcoming Recovery Spotlight feature. Submit to ktippen@mindfullness.com
Fashion states they are ready to embrace “real women”
04.01.10
Sounds promising!
At a recent fashion industry forum, both Michael Kors and Ansa Wintour of Vogue claimed that fashion is ready to embrace real women versus a girlish figure. Sounds good…And it appears Italian and French Vogue are backing this up by featuring a “plus size” model for a 32 page spread.
Sounds like progress….hopefully it can continue and such efforts will become commonplace versus newsworthy. Then we can begin challenging the label “plus size”!
Navigating Rocky Waters
03.21.10
For most people early on, the idea of eating disorder recovery feels unattainable and impossible. As therapy progresses and eating normalizes, people often reflect back on that place acknowledging how foreign recovery once seemed compared the attainable reality of the present.
Entering into recovery from any type of eating disorder requires a difficult leap of faith. It means letting go of a safety raft that has consistently served you, although not well, through some rocky waters. It means having faith that you are able to swim alone and can make it to shore without that raft.
You can.
Letting go of the raft requires managing painful feelings, tolerating periods of discomfort and being okay with that. It also means gaining something back–your life. The truth is, life is full of murky and rocky waters. It is full of peaceful and beautiful ones as well. You deserve to have both without the pull of the eating disorder demanding pieces of you.
If you are not ready to let go of that raft today, perhaps you can dip your toe into the water. You may be surprised at how good it feels.