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Learn to love life and learn to love yourself!!!
So what would you say was the best thing(s) about recovery?
ReplyDeleteI really appreciate these types of strong recovery messages. I don't believe there is any room for coddling in recovery - not in the end, for maintaining it anyway. There's not a lot of room for being gentle and allowing slips and trips. For me, I need the strength, the harshness of the naked truth. My disorder is based on lies and it wishes me dead. Full stop. I don't want to spend my life justifying behaviours, living in almost-recovery. I want full freedom and nothing short of that will do.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you! I need to hear the harsh truth of my ED and what exactly it is doing to my body and mind. I agree with your comment that the ED is based on lies - what it is telling us is far far different to what it actualy IS doing.
ReplyDeleteHearing the truth has made me want to turn it all around - and I too am very thankful for reading these types of messages and posts.
Thankyou Izzy xx