Mental Illness Awareness Week: How I Overcame My Eating Disorder
It’s no secret that struggling with mental illness is hard. If you’re feeling controlled by your eating disorder, here’s some empowering advice I’d like to share!
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You Are Worth More Than Your Eating Disorder
Overcoming our inner-demons requires superhero strength, but you have it in you
I Lost Weight—And My Place in the Body Positivity Movement
I’ve never been the girl with a flat stomach. I’ve never had the magazine “bikini body.” I’ve never had a gap between my thighs. I stood a...
Dealing With Eating Disorders
Dealing with Eating Disorders (Photo by Stuff.co.nz) Life is hard, but life is even harder when you are dealing with things quietly. You...
Demi Lovato Is Baring It All
Demi Lovato is breaking the internet, and here’s why.
When they Love You as Much as They Can
When it comes to Mental Health STruggles, having a community of love and support could be something that your friends and family really need. Here are some personal tips on how to spread the love to inspire the world.
How to be the Boss of Your Body Image
In a world where social media constantly ingrains the idea that you are not enough, it’s easy to lose sight of reality. It can be so easy...
Let’s Stop Stigmatizing Mental Health (And How to Get Involved in the Community)
Billboards, magazines and Instagram ads constantly showcasing one particular type of body can be overwhelming and certainly can become...
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If This Body Weren't Mine
TW: Eating Disorders Mirrors are my enemy Disguised as my best friend, Looking into its reflection every chance I get Lifting up my shirt,...
Your Mental Illness Severity is Valid
Trigger warning for eating disorders, depression, self-harm, and suicidal ideation. When I was in high school and severely depressed, I...
The Body Project
It clicked and for the first time in my life it stuck. I internalize a message so foreign, the opposite of which depleted me since I first...
Dancing in the Wind: Living with an Eating Disorder
Ever wondered what it's like living with an eating disorder? This article explores life living with parasitic disorders such as bulimia, anorexia and purging disorder.
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Recovering Through Sharing Your Story
TW: Eating disorders and sexual assault Opening up about my story as a survivor of sexual assault living with an eating disorder was an...
Why You Should Ditch Your Diet
Dieting does not equal health or happiness
So Damn Pretty
I’ve never been considered “conventionally pretty,” and I always knew it. Dark hair, dark eyes, and a (what I like to call “pleasantly...
How My Tattoos Helped Me Love My Body
Tattoos can be a form of self-love
Developing a Healthy Relationship with Food in College
The first step to recovery is recognition.
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week: What it is And How to Get Involved!
Learn awareness and advocacy for the 30 million that struggle with eating disorders!
What Does It Feel Like To Have Bulimia?
Edited by Avleen Grewal I long time ago I caught a friend of mine, *Romina, puking after dinner. I broke my heart seen her in such pain and...
The Things I Learned After Watching "To the Bone"
Eating disorders are common in everyday life, often supported by media perception of the ideal-body. They attack slowly and silently,...
