I want to start with a story. When I was deeply eating disordered, I mean in my darkest phase, I was abusing laxatives. For those of you who don’t know, abusing laxatives is believed to help you control your weight and counteract any physical effects of binging....
Slightly embarrassing confession: I’m addicted to Grey’s Anatomy. I’ve loved this show since the very beginning and – like Lost – it was my safe haven in the darkest storms of my depression. I was in love with McDreamy – oh, so in love – and the Meredith-Derek-and...
What if nothing about you needed to be fixed? And loneliness and self-esteem were mixed? What if everything you did was right? What if you just gave up the fight? What if all you were was love? And you truly felt it above? What if you felt happy – all the time? And...
The other day, I was having one of those days. You know, a day when I was just stubbornly determined to feel miserable about my life. I curled up in bed at noon with a jar of peanut butter, a bottle of Smirnoff (yup. Don’t look at me that way, I’m already...
The biggest gift you can ever give yourself is time: time to listen, time to learn, time to let go, time to love and time to take care of yourself. But your life is busy and you don’t even have time to think of taking care of yourself, right? I mean, your...
