charlicharli luv calm down, the quote, when taken out of context, by itself and as a tattoo concept seems a bit punitive that's all. You seem young still so just think about it but if that's who you are what ever.
I'm recovering from Anorexia and I remember praising pro ana blogs on tumblr and lying to my therapist about being happy with my weight. I am finally starting to fill out, "shaping Africa in the arch of my back and carressing the coast with my thighs."
I've been trying to recover from Anorexia for 4 years now. ''You body is not a temple; your body is the house you grew up in. How dare you try to burn it to the ground?'' has been one of the quotes that kept me going all these years. Only now have I realized, after clicking on this video for the first time, that it comes from this poem. I'm glad I finally found the source. And if anyone's reading this, I wish you all a happy and healthy life. You deserve it.
Your body is not a temple, your body is the house you grew up in. How dare you try to burn it to the ground. The thing is Im not burning it down; I'm renovating it, remodelling so I can look in the mirror and not burst into tears anymore. So that I no longer wake up in the morning with my self esteem so low that I could dig forever and it would still be buried to deep to find. So I can feel proud of the way I look, so I can go outside and not be terrified of the eyes that watch me, that judge me. So that I can learn to love me, and not hate every second that I sit here not changing from the horrors of my past but to rejuvenate and have new life; to live once again. Sorry for the long whiny post but I just had to put that out there for someone to read, to listen to.
+10101hellokitty10101 Girl,(?) I'm listening. I can't thumbs it up because I can't "like" the pain that you feel. The problem is that making yourself thin won't make you like yourself. I know, you don't believe that because who the fuck would believe that? But at the thinnest I've ever been, I hated myself more than I ever did at a bigger size. And it's so easy to say, "Well, who cares? At least I'd be beautiful," but anorexia is killing yourself. That's not an exaggeration; it's death. It's being skin and bones and seeing nothing but disgusting fat, and what you see in the mirror isn't real. I know I can't make you believe that. I can't make me believe it, either. But try. If the doctor says you're healthy, then you're beautiful. Something is going wrong between your eyes and your brain that's keeping you from seeing the truth of how gorgeous you are (and making you think everyone sees what you see), but making yourself thinner won't fix your brain, and looking like a swimsuit model won't make you love yourself. You're not whining, but you're not right, either. It's really hard to break free from that mindset - like therapy and medication for years kind of hard - but I'm thinking of you and praying that in the 5 months since you've posted this that you're doing okay. Please, don't hurt yourself because your brain is hurt and broken and lying to you. You deserve better than that.
I have been in recovery for over a year now, and I can honestly say that this pumped me up to keep trying, and it even made me cry. This is so beautiful, thank you. I can remember wasting my entire free time on Pro Ana blogs and having image folders with tips and "thinspo" and "motivation". After listening to this, I can only say: screw Ana, taking my life back no matter how long it takes
this poem is very powerful, but watching it back i think its more suited to people with low self esteem concerning their bodies and image, instead of people who are anorexic. the reason i think this is because even though its hard to understand looking from the outside in, i have come to comprehend in a way that anorexia is not a choice. it is a mental illness, a psychological sickness that eats you from your brain downwards. it cannot be stopped by a beautiful poem or an insistence that there is nothing wrong with your body. someone with anorexia needs to be handled in the most delicate, loving way possible, because it is in no way their fault that they can't see what they are doing to themselves.
+Miriam Gallacher I think (I could be wrong here, it's just my understanding) this poem is directed to the "pro ana" community and not so much to 'actual' anorexics. People who turn towards controlling their food as a way to cope with whatever other issues, people who firmly believe their body and the way it looks can create or solve their problems and who indeed _choose_ to use food and body image as their ideal, as the thing they turn to. I think there is a difference between being anorexic and being pro ana and this poem is adressed at the people flirting with (or living) the idea of mimiking eating disordered behaviour, encouraging themselves to do so, people who could indeed choose to eat normal but rather starve and binge and purge to counteract low self esteem or help themselves get a better body image - at least so they think. I fully agree with you on what you said about anorexia and how it should be handled, you put it beautifully. You seem to be a thoughtful person with a good understanding put into wonderful words. Take care.
+Miriam Gallacher I can't speak for other ED sufferers, but I'm a bulimic who found this very powerful. It was addressed to the pro-ana community. But the people who are involved in these groups often go on to develop lifelong eating disorders. You're young and vulnerable and already verging on an eating disorder, you become involved in a group like this, and within a very short time frame it can tip you over the edge. Most people wake up from the pro-ana community very quickly, but it's already too late.
Katie Zeleski that's not what she means- she's talking about people who treat anorexia like it's a diet, the people who are like "i saw an anorexic girl, i was soo jealous of her thigh gap. as of tomorrow, i'm going anorexic" i know, it's disgusting, but there are people like that. she's telling them not to treat it lightly, because they are in control and they are still choosing to starve themselves when people in 3rd world countries have no choice. obviously actual anorexic people have no choice either, but some people don't understand that it's a sickness and not a diet choice.
"Dear mothers of Hollywood. Mothers of the red carpet and the ten pounds the camera adds, how will your daughter ever learn to love her body if she is forced to watch you wring out yours?"
I've been called pro ana before and I don't understand how . I'd never want to put anyone through what I deal with every day. Anorexia is hell . But I don't want to recover . Yes I find my bones attractive but that's the disease and I know that. I sort of got offended by this poem because even though I know it was directed towards pro Ana's it sounded harsh to anorexics in general .
Ikr? I feel totally the same. I'm not that skinny yet. I'm actually still normal weighted. But I think thin girls are super beautiful and I know that I'm sick and that it would be more intelligent to stop and that it's unhealthy what I do to my body but I basically love it anyways even if it's almost like self harm to starve myself. I'm more of an anti-Ana because I try to help other people through this disease or don't let them into it from the beginning. But I don't fell for quitting. Not yet. It sounds so crazy.
This is so offensive...especially when she's describing what pro-ana is. It's not a lifestyle choice. It's a mental disorder. And comparing their thoughts to those of a healthy minded person is illogical and offensive.
+Valerie B Pro ana is NOT a disorder, Anorexia is, Pro ana is the glamorization of the disorder, the idea that it is ok to have only an apple for breakfast, the sayings that say weighing 70 lbs at 5'6 is beautiful.
I know what it is. I've struggled with anorexia for almost half my life. Making fun of pro-ana doesn't help people. People who are pro-ana are people who are so deep in the disorder that they think they need it. It's glamorization to you. It's a NEED to them.
Valerie B No, they aren't making fun of them. This is slam poetry, these people are speaking the truth. There is nothing in the definition that says pro ana's are anorexic, most of them aren't, they just see anorexia as a diet, and want to develop it to be skinny. "It's glamorization to you" UHM NO, IT'S GLAMORIZATION, PERIOD. Are you seriously gonna tell me that people creating tips and tricks, and saying "skinny feels better than food taste" is NOT glamorization?
she s not making fun of pro ana, she s saying the way ana ( the promotion of anerexia and bulimia aka mia ) is no way to talk to yourself as you would not talk to a child like that
+Valerie B not true at all. it's statistically impossible that even if every single eating disorder sufferer, including those in recovery, was pro-ana, there would still be about 28% of people who are pro-ana that don't have an eating disorder. Pro-ana can trigger eating disorders but it does not cause them. Most people who are pro-ana might have disordered eating habits but that's about as eating disordered as crash dieting. Glamourising a mental illness is wrong and absolutely not a symptom of it. I have been so deep in my anorexia that I was delusional and psychotic but I was still very against pro-ana, and many sufferers can attest to that too. Sure, some pro-anas are suffering, but most of them are not.
I thought this would be some bad terrible thing that would make me mad. But it's really thought provoking with those poems. On how people feel and stuff. I wouldn't really know since I was only feeling miserable when I wanted to try unhealthy weight loss then I stopped. But still something to think about.
I'm looking for a poetry piece about eating disorders and I really enjoyed this poem. I wanted to know if it would be okay for me to use this poem for my poetry competition.
Um I have a question. Have you ever actually experienced anorexia, an eating disorder or are you just pulling this out of your ass? Cause it’s really easy to tell someone to love themselves when you’ve never hated how you look as much as we have.
claire hughes At the time I commented this, I was anorexic. I am a recovering anorexic. I was in a pretty shitty place because I felt like skinny people couldn't understand. I know that's incredibly shitty now, but then I didn't understand. I was using 'pro ana' a ton at that time, and this pissed me off. Sorry.
The poem is beautiful but I disagree with the concept. An eating disorder is a mental illness and telling them they're wrong or judging them for it makes it worse.
+Crystal Blue i dont' think she's religious she was just using the quote for effect, you know? people doing healthy diets (you know, when they eat healthily and do exercise, not like starving themselves) often use "your body is a temple" as a kind of motivational motto (because it encourages you to be more healthy) so i think that's why she used this quote.
Thank you for defending me. I made the comment some time ago thinking about what the Bible says about the same line said in the poem being stated in the video. I was merely stating what it reminded me of.
Why is a random stranger more encouraging, more loving, more comforting than my mother?
awww ..
Rachel Chambers same thing here
Haha what's "mother"
This made me cry so much. "Your body is not a temple, your body is the house you grew up in. How dare you try to burn it to the ground"
+Bri NB
If this made you cry, you should watch "When The Fat Girl Gets Skinny"
"Your body is the house you grew up in how dare you try to burn it to the ground" that's gonna be my first tatoo
I mean this in the nicest way possible but please dont get that as your first tattoo
Elisa O why not?
Elisa O mind your own damn business bitch fuck off
charlicharli luv calm down, the quote, when taken out of context, by itself and as a tattoo concept seems a bit punitive that's all. You seem young still so just think about it but if that's who you are what ever.
Elisa O im not exactly getting it for other people it means something to me thats why m getting it
I'm recovering from Anorexia and I remember praising pro ana blogs on tumblr and lying to my therapist about being happy with my weight. I am finally starting to fill out, "shaping Africa in the arch of my back and carressing the coast with my thighs."
I've been trying to recover from Anorexia for 4 years now. ''You body is not a temple; your body is the house you grew up in. How dare you try to burn it to the ground?'' has been one of the quotes that kept me going all these years. Only now have I realized, after clicking on this video for the first time, that it comes from this poem. I'm glad I finally found the source. And if anyone's reading this, I wish you all a happy and healthy life. You deserve it.
Gloria D'A I just read your comment. its still just as moving the thousandth time you listen as the first. I hope you're all good!
i love that line.. your body isnt a temple its the house you grew up in............
Take advice, it doesn't start until 2:00 minutes
Colbi Jensen thanks
Colbi Jensen thanks bro
Aannd one of my related to this video recommendations is called "ANA TIPS."
N.I. McClusky same!
N.I. McClusky same its disgustingly triggering
almost started crying. thats powerful. Im in recovery for ED and this really got to me.
Your body is not a temple, your body is the house you grew up in. How dare you try to burn it to the ground.
The thing is Im not burning it down; I'm renovating it, remodelling so I can look in the mirror and not burst into tears anymore. So that I no longer wake up in the morning with my self esteem so low that I could dig forever and it would still be buried to deep to find. So I can feel proud of the way I look, so I can go outside and not be terrified of the eyes that watch me, that judge me.
So that I can learn to love me, and not hate every second that I sit here not changing from the horrors of my past but to rejuvenate and have new life; to live once again.
Sorry for the long whiny post but I just had to put that out there for someone to read, to listen to.
+10101hellokitty10101 Girl,(?) I'm listening. I can't thumbs it up because I can't "like" the pain that you feel. The problem is that making yourself thin won't make you like yourself. I know, you don't believe that because who the fuck would believe that? But at the thinnest I've ever been, I hated myself more than I ever did at a bigger size. And it's so easy to say, "Well, who cares? At least I'd be beautiful," but anorexia is killing yourself. That's not an exaggeration; it's death. It's being skin and bones and seeing nothing but disgusting fat, and what you see in the mirror isn't real.
I know I can't make you believe that. I can't make me believe it, either. But try. If the doctor says you're healthy, then you're beautiful. Something is going wrong between your eyes and your brain that's keeping you from seeing the truth of how gorgeous you are (and making you think everyone sees what you see), but making yourself thinner won't fix your brain, and looking like a swimsuit model won't make you love yourself.
You're not whining, but you're not right, either. It's really hard to break free from that mindset - like therapy and medication for years kind of hard - but I'm thinking of you and praying that in the 5 months since you've posted this that you're doing okay. Please, don't hurt yourself because your brain is hurt and broken and lying to you. You deserve better than that.
you need to love yourself from the inside, that does not come with a died or an eating disorder like anerexia or the promotion of it
"I turn off the light before I let him love me."
This poem made me want to recover
YOU CAN DO IT!!!!!
:')
You go girl! The road is tough but it is worth it!
Are you better?
I really hope you are! :)
I'm literally 4 years late but I hope you're doing okay💕💕
It’s been five years, I hope you did it❤️
so proud of everyone in the comments who is fighting anorexia. so so proud. love this poem.
I have been in recovery for over a year now, and I can honestly say that this pumped me up to keep trying, and it even made me cry. This is so beautiful, thank you. I can remember wasting my entire free time on Pro Ana blogs and having image folders with tips and "thinspo" and "motivation". After listening to this, I can only say: screw Ana, taking my life back no matter how long it takes
go to 02:00 for the poem itself
thank you
This legit made me cry
this poem is very powerful, but watching it back i think its more suited to people with low self esteem concerning their bodies and image, instead of people who are anorexic. the reason i think this is because even though its hard to understand looking from the outside in, i have come to comprehend in a way that anorexia is not a choice. it is a mental illness, a psychological sickness that eats you from your brain downwards. it cannot be stopped by a beautiful poem or an insistence that there is nothing wrong with your body. someone with anorexia needs to be handled in the most delicate, loving way possible, because it is in no way their fault that they can't see what they are doing to themselves.
+Miriam Gallacher I think (I could be wrong here, it's just my understanding) this poem is directed to the "pro ana" community and not so much to 'actual' anorexics. People who turn towards controlling their food as a way to cope with whatever other issues, people who firmly believe their body and the way it looks can create or solve their problems and who indeed _choose_ to use food and body image as their ideal, as the thing they turn to. I think there is a difference between being anorexic and being pro ana and this poem is adressed at the people flirting with (or living) the idea of mimiking eating disordered behaviour, encouraging themselves to do so, people who could indeed choose to eat normal but rather starve and binge and purge to counteract low self esteem or help themselves get a better body image - at least so they think.
I fully agree with you on what you said about anorexia and how it should be handled, you put it beautifully. You seem to be a thoughtful person with a good understanding put into wonderful words. Take care.
MsPsychoChaos
that helps a lot, thank you for clearing it up for me! and thank you so much for your kind words, have a lovely day
+Miriam Gallacher I can't speak for other ED sufferers, but I'm a bulimic who found this very powerful. It was addressed to the pro-ana community. But the people who are involved in these groups often go on to develop lifelong eating disorders. You're young and vulnerable and already verging on an eating disorder, you become involved in a group like this, and within a very short time frame it can tip you over the edge. Most people wake up from the pro-ana community very quickly, but it's already too late.
"When she comes to you hungry, do not feed her." That hit me hard.
sophie love I'm... Speechless...
I enjoyed this until the part about "dear first world". I hate it when people delegitimize eating disorders like it's a choice.
Katie Zeleski that's not what she means- she's talking about people who treat anorexia like it's a diet, the people who are like "i saw an anorexic girl, i was soo jealous of her thigh gap. as of tomorrow, i'm going anorexic" i know, it's disgusting, but there are people like that. she's telling them not to treat it lightly, because they are in control and they are still choosing to starve themselves when people in 3rd world countries have no choice. obviously actual anorexic people have no choice either, but some people don't understand that it's a sickness and not a diet choice.
shes talking about pro ana which isnt an eating disorder its a movement on glamorizing and encouraging eating disorders
Awesome, have listened to it so much i can recite it by heart lol, you're amazing!
This made me cry so much.
That was really powerful, none the less. She has talent. 👍
Respect to York College for supporting TWLOHA and exposing their students to it.
This hit me right in the heart
I keep coming back to this video
i love this girl! great poet
"Dear mothers of Hollywood. Mothers of the red carpet and the ten pounds the camera adds, how will your daughter ever learn to love her body if she is forced to watch you wring out yours?"
why am i crying ?
your username is thin vegan, maybe because you've felt bad about yourself like she describes
AMAZING
i turn off the light before i let him love me damnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
I've been called pro ana before and I don't understand how . I'd never want to put anyone through what I deal with every day. Anorexia is hell . But I don't want to recover . Yes I find my bones attractive but that's the disease and I know that. I sort of got offended by this poem because even though I know it was directed towards pro Ana's it sounded harsh to anorexics in general .
Ikr? I feel totally the same. I'm not that skinny yet. I'm actually still normal weighted. But I think thin girls are super beautiful and I know that I'm sick and that it would be more intelligent to stop and that it's unhealthy what I do to my body but I basically love it anyways even if it's almost like self harm to starve myself. I'm more of an anti-Ana because I try to help other people through this disease or don't let them into it from the beginning. But I don't fell for quitting. Not yet. It sounds so crazy.
I was all ready for the loud ass crowd....but the video ended 😂👍🏻
Powerful
the poem starts at 2:00
That was a great slam. Love the poem! :)
This is such a good poem
I love it keep going
i go to YCP and i'm part of the same club she was in 😬 this really got to me
why isnt this going viral
This is so offensive...especially when she's describing what pro-ana is. It's not a lifestyle choice. It's a mental disorder. And comparing their thoughts to those of a healthy minded person is illogical and offensive.
+Valerie B Pro ana is NOT a disorder, Anorexia is, Pro ana is the glamorization of the disorder, the idea that it is ok to have only an apple for breakfast, the sayings that say weighing 70 lbs at 5'6 is beautiful.
I know what it is. I've struggled with anorexia for almost half my life. Making fun of pro-ana doesn't help people. People who are pro-ana are people who are so deep in the disorder that they think they need it. It's glamorization to you. It's a NEED to them.
Valerie B No, they aren't making fun of them. This is slam poetry, these people are speaking the truth. There is nothing in the definition that says pro ana's are anorexic, most of them aren't, they just see anorexia as a diet, and want to develop it to be skinny. "It's glamorization to you" UHM NO, IT'S GLAMORIZATION, PERIOD. Are you seriously gonna tell me that people creating tips and tricks, and saying "skinny feels better than food taste" is NOT glamorization?
she s not making fun of pro ana, she s saying the way ana ( the promotion of anerexia and bulimia aka mia ) is no way to talk to yourself as you would not talk to a child like that
+Valerie B not true at all. it's statistically impossible that even if every single eating disorder sufferer, including those in recovery, was pro-ana, there would still be about 28% of people who are pro-ana that don't have an eating disorder. Pro-ana can trigger eating disorders but it does not cause them. Most people who are pro-ana might have disordered eating habits but that's about as eating disordered as crash dieting. Glamourising a mental illness is wrong and absolutely not a symptom of it. I have been so deep in my anorexia that I was delusional and psychotic but I was still very against pro-ana, and many sufferers can attest to that too. Sure, some pro-anas are suffering, but most of them are not.
great poem :)
I thought this would be some bad terrible thing that would make me mad. But it's really thought provoking with those poems. On how people feel and stuff. I wouldn't really know since I was only feeling miserable when I wanted to try unhealthy weight loss then I stopped. But still something to think about.
I'm looking for a poetry piece about eating disorders and I really enjoyed this poem. I wanted to know if it would be okay for me to use this poem for my poetry competition.
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"Whatever you think is wrong with your body isn't" and that lady's and gentlemen is how we got the pro-obesity movement.
Um I have a question. Have you ever actually experienced anorexia, an eating disorder or are you just pulling this out of your ass? Cause it’s really easy to tell someone to love themselves when you’ve never hated how you look as much as we have.
Says the skinny girl.
+Homura Skinny does not mean anorexic.
claire hughes At the time I commented this, I was anorexic.
I am a recovering anorexic.
I was in a pretty shitty place because I felt like skinny people couldn't understand.
I know that's incredibly shitty now, but then I didn't understand.
I was using 'pro ana' a ton at that time, and this pissed me off.
Sorry.
I’m sorry, but this is so incredibly ignorant
woow did you even read the previous reply?
Don't say bigger..
coming from a skinny girl
Don't be rude.
Are you shaming a naturally skinny girl for being against eating disorders? Seriously?
Well considering most anorexics are skinny....
You obviously don't know a damn thing about anorexia.
The poem is beautiful but I disagree with the concept. An eating disorder is a mental illness and telling them they're wrong or judging them for it makes it worse.
The only thing. Your body is a temple. It is in the Bible. This is telling you to treat your body with respect.
+Crystal Blue i dont' think she's religious she was just using the quote for effect, you know? people doing healthy diets (you know, when they eat healthily and do exercise, not like starving themselves) often use "your body is a temple" as a kind of motivational motto (because it encourages you to be more healthy) so i think that's why she used this quote.
Mei Ki grow up, there's no need for that
Thank you for defending me. I made the comment some time ago thinking about what the Bible says about the same line said in the poem being stated in the video. I was merely stating what it reminded me of.
As for you, please, have an open mind about this.
that's fine, obviously the Bible is the origin of the phrase 'your body is a temple', and poetry is always about interpretation, so you weren't wrong!