Something has to change… honest Anorexia Recovery update
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- Опубліковано 10 сер 2023
- Hey everyone,
I’m Rachel, an autistic gal in anorexia recovery! I upload recovery content and share my journey as an autistic person navigating their way through life to raise awareness and give an insight into life as a neurodivergent teen recovering from an ed. Subscribe to stick around!
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Rachel 💌
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Being honest to yourself is the important and it’s so good that you reflected yourself and came to this Realisation! You can do this I believe in you, one step after another to get out of your prison, you know what to do ❤ eat what you really want and allow yourself to enjoy it
you are strong :)
Even though this is the most terrifying thing, it is also something you have done before in a way. Deciding to recover in the first place was like jumping out of a plane and making your own parachute on the way down. That was incredible and you DID that!! This is the second jump. It's just as scary, and just as important. In fact this is the thing that will allow you to really have the benefits of that very first decision. It's no easier doing it the second time, but hold on to your reasons and the fact that this is the one that seals in all of the amazing things you have achieved and actually allows you to truly benefit from them. And remember the enormous courage you found inside yourself. That is still in there. You use it every day. This is the scariest part but the one that will truly make all the rest worth it and get you REAL freedom. And you deserve that after all of the incredible hard work you are doing. You deserve the prize at the end. It won't be easy or fast, but it will be SO worth it. You can do this. Your future self is gonna be so so relieved that you did. You are stronger than anorexia. It shouts louder, but you have the real power. Just keep going and you will get there. You've already proved you have the courage it takes. 💕💕
Edit: Wow that was so wierd - I wrote this comment before i finished listening to the end of the video, and when i hit play again, you made an analogy about parachutes as well!!!!
Thank you so so much 🥺
It gets easier the more you do it! I recently had a wobble with anorexia, having been recovered for years, and the way I pulled myself out of it was by having a deep conversation with the side me that had grabbed hold of the anorexia again, and really listening to what it was trying to tell me and what it was really afraid of. Because anorexia is a coping skill really, it's the symptom of other issues, and if we try to solve it by just changing our behaviour with food, we can miss what the actual problem is. I wonder if it would help to ask yourself what holding on to those rules gives you? Is there something it allows you to avoid? And therefore is there something else you can put in place to get that need met in a healthier way? For me, I worked out that I'd been pushing down feelings of grief around fertility issues and associated body image. So giving myself space to grieve and actively validating that side of me instead of ignoring has meant I have less need for anorexia, and getting back on track behaiour wise had been much easier.
This is so true! Thank you, such powerful words and advice. Sending love 💌