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Hopeful Healing: January 2011
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Saturday, January 29, 2011. I am becoming me. The shadows have swallowed all but the memory of the shell I once was. A gesture. A look. An easy passing comment. These things can pull me back into the memory of discontent;. I can feel the ghost of pain leaning close against my skin. Breathing softly against my cheek. But I am changed. I will not be cajoled into dangerous reminiscence. I am standing taller. Looking others in the eyes. I can smile. And laugh. I am no longer captive to fears and insecurities.
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Seeing Something Old with New Eyes | Alison's Insights
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Accepting Mid-Life Addiction Recovery One Slow Deep Breath At A Time. Seeing Something Old with New Eyes. When was the last time you’ve rearranged a closet, the living room furniture, or the selves of your mind? Seems when I allow myself the time for those things I become grateful to see them differently or reconsider what I’d long forgotten. This shuffling of perspective also happens when I’m recaptured by books read years ago or even pages reviewed last week. The intention of the narrative, the stuffed...
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Hopeful Healing: Less
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Sunday, December 26, 2010. A better person by losing weight. And the goals are completely different. While the dieter generally has a numerical goal, the anorexic typically wants to weigh "less". The trouble with aiming for less? It's an unreachable goal. Ever shifting, and dangerously so. To an outsider then, it might follow that determining whether a loved one is on a diet or truly sick is a fairly simple matter. Why not ask? What are you trying to do? Do you have a goal weight? LOVE your blogg Jen....
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Hopeful Healing: Holding a Candle
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Saturday, January 1, 2011. Shakespeare wrote, "Must I hold a candle to my shames? In my own experience, it has been the things I am ashamed of that I most need to examine. Those are the things that I have attempted to bury through layers of depression and disordered eating. And while turning my gaze upon the shadows. Candlelight is softer than pulsing flourescents. More forgiving than beams of light that would cut through the darkness. Examining those shameful shadows through the flickering light...I hav...
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Hopeful Healing: Living
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Saturday, January 29, 2011. Living is hard. Unpredictable. Full of ups and downs. Learning to live again after existing in mental anguish for so long is precarious and confusing. What's real? I feel exhaustion and lower moods with trepidation. Could a bout of depression be on its way? And yet, no. This is life. Living. Normalcy. How strange to feel unable to recognize the difference between disorder and normal. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Eating Disorder Recovery Support. View my complete profile.
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Hopeful Healing
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Saturday, January 29, 2011. I am becoming me. The shadows have swallowed all but the memory of the shell I once was. A gesture. A look. An easy passing comment. These things can pull me back into the memory of discontent;. I can feel the ghost of pain leaning close against my skin. Breathing softly against my cheek. But I am changed. I will not be cajoled into dangerous reminiscence. I am standing taller. Looking others in the eyes. I can smile. And laugh. I am no longer captive to fears and insecurities.
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Hopeful Healing: Working Like Ducks
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Monday, November 22, 2010. Everything is a flurry of movement. It's hard work to make things look effortless. And the irony is, we seldom succeed in doing so. Doing so would not be healthy or helpful. In my own experience, I've found that when I compare myself with others I am generally seeking to understand myself better. As if in comparison, I can see how I "measure up". Am I "worse"? Have things been "easier" for me? And does making these judgements really change me or my experience? It is not easy to...
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Hopeful Healing: February 2011
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Friday, February 4, 2011. There is a natural progression in life. At first we grow, stretch, become. We stand and fall and stand again. We lean on others for support and guidance. And learn to run on our own. I faltered in my progression early on. I felt unsafe in a world in constant flux. I was victimized before I knew what that meant. And in an effort to avoid further victimization, I built walls, separated myself from true growth, and stagnated. This is my evolution. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). When t...