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What if you are actually strong enough to get through?

I want listen this words everyday like a recovery mantra ❤ thankyouuuu so much and Happy new year ❤ ciao from Roma ❤️

Hello. I am 60 years old and have had anorexia for FORTY YEARS! I love UA-cam recovery videos that are full of truth and direction. This is one of them! I wrote just about everything in my journal! I have been in and out of hospitals and therapy and am now learning it is up to me to do this on my own! This is one of the BEST videos I have ever heard. I feel like over the past little bit I'm starting to really recover and it is helped with videos just like this. I love that you shoot straight from the hip-not too ooey gooey happy or too harsh but just the plain and hard facts. I can do something with that! Please younger girls listen to her. She is SPOT ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just asked someone today if recovery really involves all the journaling, reading, watching videos and all the other tools. Well for me it does and I plan on continuing to listen to videos and people like you. What if I gain weight and get healthy?!!!!!! I can always go back to this living hell but what if it is GREAT? Thank you!

Happy New Year! Thank you for sharing your What ifs. What if I allow myself to be curious? *spoiler alert: It's amazing!* Thank you, Emily, for your dedication to helping so many of us reach our full potential by daring to ACT - even in baby steps - towards a lifetime of ED freedom!! I know I still have areas to challenge but I have come SO FAR and am SO VERY GRATEFUL!!

What if you find real control, by letting go of controlling food?

What if chocolate feels better, than skinny ever did?

What if you'll feel better on your worst day, than you've ever felt on your best ED day?

love this!

For me - the times is WAAAY worse. For many years if was scared of eating to late, i wouldnt eat pass a certatin time cause i thought that would make me fat. Over the years i have now instead eating later and later (ex breakfast at about 2 pm..). I have sooo many years tried to changed it but eating earlier make me so so so anxious. I also dont think anything is fun (anorexia has taken all my interest away - is this common?). I dont have any friends so i dont have anything to do instead, all i do is waiting and look forward to eat. If all eating is done for the day i get so upset and sad. All the anxiety is exceedingly difficult to handle and each time i eat erlier its so painful that the next time is much more harder. Im so stuck. Also already now hate myself so much and cant bear to gain more, im already so hateful i dont wanna live anymore. :( Please please talk about this.

😭💜🫶🏼 Every single word… like medicine to the soul. I’m so grateful , bless your heart Emily

Amazing, but what if you dont have a support system, no more friends and no hobbies, no job and youre alone

Wonderful video, such an inspiring video, thanks so much Emily, these are such needed steps for the tough times and every other time, thanks so much for showing ways to actively reach a recovered life. Thanks again Emily for showing me others have walked and sat through the tough, uncomfortable times and ensured a free life😄

Love lovee this video~ thank you so much.💗🌩️🌈💗💗

I totally needed it!! Im such a victim of the tomorrow syndrome and doing the same thing everyday!!!

I totally needed it!! Im such a victim of the tomorrow syndrome and doing the same thing everyday!!!

Love!!!

Brilliant video thank you both ❤

Idk what it is about the way you speak, but your words always resonate with me❤

Thank you so, SO MUCH for this video! I do promise myself to be kind to my brain this Christmas. I’m spending this time with my boyfriend and I want to try out all the special food that I’ve been running from for all these years! I can’t wait! Have a gooood time!🌻

First!

im going insane atm!! my brain keeps saying I havent suffered for long enough and that i shouldnt feel hungry. Im sorry to be annoying but would you consider 5-6months a long time to be suffering? I know this is probably my ed talking but I just really need to know

Thank you both so much for everything you do. To my mind, telling someone with an ED they can go "back" to exercise is as problematic as implying they can go "back" to restriction. When you're in recovery, back = into disorder. IF they WANT to exercise in future, THEN they can find new and compulsion-free ways of doing so (though they might just think of it as "moving", or not think of it as a discrete thing at all).

5:25 - campfire!!

i do feel like i struggle to respond to these less overt signs of hunger - like i feel it’s not justified since i’ve already gained a lot of weight, plus it doesn’t feel like other people would respond to these?

The jellycat was a lil log camp fire 🔥

So relatable.

It does really help spot how can mental hunger send signals, thank you so much for this content !! PS : I think the jellycat was a (camp)fire 😊

the thing you asked about " i dont know what this kind should be" is lagerfeuer- its wooden brikets with fire. and a smile on it

wow i relate to all of these! never realized how much i try to fulfill my want for food by looking at it in grocery stores or on social media or constantly looking for permission to eat more or certain foods from others

Helpful Video as always, thank you

Thanks for doing your videos. I keep watching them throughout my Ed journey. It’s very much to and fro for me. Keep holding hands with my disorder and feel like I’m waiting for permission to let it go as it plays on my body dysmorphia after I’ve eaten. Crazy it feels but your wise with your wisdom always 😊

Thank you for these videos, they are so helpful.

is it something different if you have a plan on which you do something on a constant basis? my movement of choice was walking and i like it but before it was also tied in anorexia and it was compulsive. todays its not any more to that degree but i have tendencies to want to challange myself - but not with compulisive touch any more. or what to do if you want to do a trainer-degree in movenat ? its much harder then walking and treadmill and more sustainable but you need to eat in order to built muscless and adapt properly.

So i am all the time sad about food is over😅

Wow, this video comes exactly at the right time and is so on point. I am exactly like that. I Herr me often saying, that it recovery doesn't work for me and I am stuck and can't move forward. But everyday I am pleasing the Ed and my OCD behaviour. I do some challenges, but never every day and I also know that through compulsive movement or eating something specific for a meal, I try to compulsate. Every day is a fight in my head, because I always try to go left and right and this is so exhausting, so I often think that I will end up having this my whole life. But...I have to do something radical. I am not the unicorn. I need to take a leap of faith and "just do it"

Hi Emily, thanks for a wonderful video, the reminder that the greatest mascot for recovery is of a true healed self, a core self, is a great image to hold in the mind with practice and training when facing the discomfort of a challenge. Thanks so much Emily.

Hi emily, to be fair even if it's a "straightforward" concept as you always say: "in recovery there's not a knowledge problem" but this does help as a reminder and as a reference to push forward🩷. I also😂 wanted to ask you a question, I've been in recovery for anorexia for more than 2 years, so I haven't done any actual physical exercise since then. However I have gained most of my weight/I've weight restored this August. I don't think compulsive exercise was a component, however I'm unsure whether I can start exercising again. Right now I'm also experiencing a high amount of hunger which I truly am trying (and honestly believe I'm able to fully respond to) my best to honour. Do you have any advice in relation to when to start movement/exercise again? And also how did you manage to go out when experiencing high hunger, because I don't know how to pack enough and I also end up not craving what I packed at times (i pack what I wanted the day before but sometimes I want something else). Thank you for this and for all your videos🩷

And this is why it took me 30 years to recover. As my dietician said, "If you have a back- up plan, you're planning to go back."

I love your videos so much!❤

Love this!! This concept is really helpful and relevant to me right now because I've been finding one of the most frustrating things my ED is causing is severe decision paralysis. Can't get frozen trying to decide if I just choose both options, I love it haha! Now just have to actually practice it.

i went to my favorite salad spot today because i genuinely love vegetables. last time i went, i refused to get dressing because of the calories. my friend told me that’s dumb and my salad would be dry but i didn’t listen. it was dry. so this time around, i challenged myself to add dressing to the salad. it was difficult and i ended up choosing a safer option that was tasty because dressing was challenging enough. it was tastier. so much tastier. i told my friend she was right. i wanted one of the sides too. i was conflicted which to get and decided to get both. not the salad bowl or the side, BOTH, which is a huge step for me. i didn’t end up finishing either, but facing the challenge was difficult enough. one day i will be able to finish it all. i’ve been doing this lately and feeling super guilty so this video came at the perfect time. like recently a few times i’ve gotten a sandwich (which specific sandwiches are a safe food) AND the extra i was craving so bad. in this case, i’ve been dying to eat this delicious freaking pastry my ed HATES. i’m usually able to finish the safe sandwich and fear add on which is huge for me considering i usually just eat the safe sandwich nothing else no fear foods added. i’m still pretty deep in my ed but can’t stop thinking about teeny tiny steps in recovery cus of how miserable my ed makes me. i’m at that point where i try to make my diet 80% safe foods and 20% fear foods every day just to challenge my ed cus that’s what i can reasonably handle at the moment. i find it most manageable to combine the safe food with the fear food or having a fear snack instead of a fear meal. at the end of the day, eating one freaking pastry or one sugary snack or adding dressing to my salad will not kill me. it will not make me fat. i have to remind myself of that constantly. ‘this chocolate won’t kill me, it’s literally freaking chocolate.’

Snow... same in Switzerland right now :)

Hi Emily, Hi Emily, I started all-in recovery from anorexia for 4 weeks because eating lists are no longer possible. my problem is that I have already eaten a whole cake or pie every day this week, plus 10 croissants, cookies and chocolate. Loafs of bread every day I feel like I'm not doing it right and that I'm developing other eating disorders. I'm also afraid that I'm eating for food's sake and not listening to my body. I already feel my body changing and I gained a lot like a lot. When I eat I can’t just eat 1 cookie I want every cookie or the whole cake. I’m afraid I’m developing a divergent disorder. I think I’m mentally so hunger and I don’t know if I’m binging really need your advice.🥲

The last point is great. I notice that if I get used to former Fear Foods, they become new Save Foods, and I would routinely now have this new save food reasoning that I have to repeat eating my fear foods after all. Stacking something I am actually afraid of on top is a great idea to get out of that loop ( and I have got a huge amount of noise in my head now already 😁 ) Thank you! :)

I cant stop eating.Been binging for 3 months straight on whole pizzas,bags of cookies and 2 bags of chips all in one day.Every day.Will this stop or have i developed binge eating now?Im worried as the weight gain is fast and its mentally been just hard

this is so helpful im now a healthy weight but ive been recovering for 3 months now and i still get extreme hunger and i worry that im not actually hungry and should i actually be eating this much? I dont know if im just eating lots of biscuits and cereal for no reason? or is this just my ed speaking?

How beautiful you both look, relaxed faces with all the AN stress and anxiety left behind. You give strength to my hopes for my daughter and she, today, found strength from you both. Thanks Emily and Fi.

You have no idea how much I needed this exact message today. Thank you for all that you do!

So great you are doing talks in hospitals

This made my day. Thank you so so much for this video. It truly gives a lot of hope and a feeling of being heard 🫶