Eating Disorder Recovery Is Not Always Picture-Perfect
Living with an eating disorder has complicated almost every aspect of my life.
Living with an eating disorder has complicated almost every aspect of my life.
Someone who only shows up when they feel like it is not someone you need in your life.
Sometimes the ones we love never come back. Sometimes the love was never even there to begin with.
Some of the best advice I have ever received was that just because you choose to go one way for a little while doesn’t mean you can never pursue anything else. A path is just a stepping stone, not your final destination.
This is why we cannot run from the horrible things that have happened to us and expect them to just disappear.
I did everything I could do to erase you from me the way that you erased me from you so easily.
What seems like a normal trip to the grocery store or just a walk around the block to you can bring up debilitating anxiety, panic, PTSD, and trauma responses for us.
No one has the right to tell you that your feelings are illegitimate because you weren’t in the type of relationship our society deems as “the right one.”
It’s midnight again, and you are the only thing on my mind.
I don’t know why I ever thought I had to be “over it.”