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Motherly Priorities

Posted on October 20, 2013 by recovgirl

I had dinner with my mother Friday night and wow, wow, wow do I have a LOT to write about!  She had asked me about some items that ended up at her house throughout various moves and I happened to … Continue reading →

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Butterfly Lessons (recovery metaphor)

Posted on October 18, 2013 by recovgirl

Earlier this week, when I was talking to CB about the sandpaper, she told me a beautiful (and tragic) story about butterflies. After caterpillars have spent the requisite amount time wrapped up in their cocoons and are ready to emerge … Continue reading →

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Diet is a four letter word Part 2 – Stigma

Posted on October 14, 2013 by recovgirl

Stigma: The Merriam-Webster definition of stigma is: a set of negative and often unfair beliefs that a society or group of people have a bout something The archaic definition is “a scar left by a hot iron” and “a mark … Continue reading →

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Diet is a four letter word

Posted on October 11, 2013 by recovgirl

I have so much to say about this, I’m going to have to break it up into a few posts, but here goes… Part 1: How did I get here? I was 5 years old when my mother first introduced … Continue reading →

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Avoiding the doctor

Posted on October 9, 2013 by recovgirl

Before starting the intensive outpatient program for eating disorders, I had to get clearance from a doctor.  Basically a physical.  Unsurprisingly, due to my weight, my bill of health was not exactly clean. I explained that I had been learning about … Continue reading →

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The sandpaper that shapes us

Posted on October 8, 2013 by recovgirl

Several months ago, an eternity in recovery time, I wrote about finding it difficult to let go of anger and resentment towards the people I felt had treated me unfairly in life.  I’ve come a very VERY long way since … Continue reading →

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Multitasking your life away

Posted on October 7, 2013 by recovgirl

One of the things I used to appreciate greatly was the ability to multitask.  Doing two things in the time it would normally take you to do one seemed like a total no-brainer.  I even read an article similar to … Continue reading →

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Successful does not equal happy

Posted on September 29, 2013 by recovgirl

I was raised to believe in accomplishment.  Success was supposed to be tantamount to life itself.  I sincerely believed that if I was successful, I would be happy, but I have recently started realizing that I’ve actually been missing out … Continue reading →

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Happiness is a choice

Posted on September 28, 2013 by recovgirl

Several weeks ago, when I was having a particularly rough time with work/life/my thoughts, I told CB (my therapist) how I sometimes feel about life.  She gave me a homework assignment to watch the movie Happy.  In the movie we … Continue reading →

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Being Human and Causing Pain

Posted on September 21, 2013 by recovgirl

To quote Lauryn Hill (who was quoting Bob Marley), “I got so much things to say right now.”  I think I have about 15 blog posts in drafts at this moment, with headlines and maybe a sentence or two, and … Continue reading →

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