The Hello Bar is a simple web toolbar that engages users and communicates a call to action.

Archive | Eating Disorders

03 May 2011 ~ 3 Comments

Treadmills & Eating Disorders

This is a guest post by Aaron O’Connor, a former track & field athlete, currently a writer and amateur fitness trainer in Washington state. TreadmillReviews.net blog In general, exercise is a healthy behavior that encourages physical fitness and well-being. Yet for those individuals who suffer from eating disorders, exercise can become an obsession or compulsion, [...]

Continue Reading

25 February 2011 ~ 5 Comments

Societal ED

I don’t know if you’ve really observed this, but if you pay attention… our society really loves disordered eating.  It embraces it. It celebrates it. It worships it. The phrase “societal ED” doesn’t necessarily mean that society has an eating disorder, but there is a clear message in the world today, particularly in America, that [...]

Continue Reading

22 February 2011 ~ 8 Comments

Support and the ED

I’m really bad at reaching out to other people.  The phrase I often use is that “I don’t want to burden others” with my problems.  I often think that I can do it on my own, I don’t need to bother others and if I can’t do it on my own I am being weak. [...]

Continue Reading

20 February 2011 ~ 6 Comments

NEDAwareness 2011: February 20-26

I went public about my eating disorder on this site (and to many friends/family) during NEDAwareness week a year ago. National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. It was a hard decision, I often feel that it would be better received if I said that I was addicted to prescription pain killers or if I said I [...]

Continue Reading

24 January 2011 ~ 8 Comments

Embrace: Me

Just wanted to let everyone know that I’m featured on the lovely Emilie’s site as part of her Embrace:Me series.  It’s a very personal post where I disclose more about my ED struggles.  I hope that someone out there is helped by this… but if not, it does help me immensely to be more open [...]

Continue Reading

16 January 2011 ~ 15 Comments

Many Emotions

Sadness… Longing… and a little Self-Loathing thrown in. That’s how I’m feeling today. Why? Today was the PF Chang’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon/Half Marathon. Two years ago in that race I had a DNF. Did Not Finish… it was a crappy experience. Last year was hard for me when the race rolled around, but today [...]

Continue Reading