Pretty Balanced Life

Like everything else in my life post-recovery, I have a complicated relationship with shopping. Through mainstream media and fashion, w...

Potential trigger warning: this post contains numbers as related to calories and may contain description of my own personal diet. This is n...

"What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself." Hecato           "I finally think I understa...

  Lao Tzu once said, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step,” Me and my addictive personality have always thought that w...

"There are only four words that mean so much more than I love you, and those words are: I'm here for you."  My mom was a pr...

"You have the power to say 'this is not how my story is going to end.'" I remember my first time in treatment for my eat...

"Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again."  One of the things that was hard for me to understand w...