Having an eating disorder is one of the reasons that I thought I might never become pregnant. And it’s true that if someone restricts or binges & purges long enough, they can cause irreversible damage to their fertility. I thought I was going to be one of those statistics. “Having an Eating Disorder can increase [...]
This week is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. The theme for the year is “Everybody Knows Somebody.” The peak onset of eating disorders occurs during puberty and the late teen/early adult years, but symptoms can occur as young as kindergarten. As many as 10 million females and 1 million males in the U.S. are battling eating [...]
Jill Will Run Note: As someone who is in recovery from an eating disorder, I like to share information about ED’s and how they can affect people in all different walks of life. Sometimes it is nice to have something that is from a view other than my own. Today’s post comes from Marina Salsbury. [...]
I love Pinterest! I think it’s a lot of fun to “pin” ideas that I find inspiring without having to necessarily accumulate all the clutter of actual paper. It’s convinced me that I could possibly build some of my own furniture (or… uh, make my husband build it, “It will be soooooo easy, just get [...]
I like things that are concrete. Real. Tangible. It doesn’t necessarily have to be something that I can hold; but I do prefer being able to see it, feel it, recognize it or know it. Running feels tangible to me. I can see that I have run X many miles. I can see that I [...]
In 1949 Congress designated May as Mental Health Month. (That’s in addition to it being Skin Cancer Awareness Month!) Anyway, the purpose of the designation is to illustrate the importance of mental health issues to the overall health and well-being of American citizens. The phrase “mental health” has a lot of stigma surrounding it, in [...]
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