Real eating disorder recovery is more about how you live than how you eat.  Reasonable eating flows along with genuine recovery. To get there you need to recognize your challenges.

Here's a quote to put on your wall, on the cover of your journal and any other place that you see daily.  It's more than a healing or inspiring message.  It's a statement that describes what you can only accomplish in recovery  It's the antithesis of how you live an eating disorder life.

I found a sentence in my inspirational reading today that let a fresh breeze waft through my mind and heart. All the other sentences were nice enough, even profound at times and thought provoking often.  But this one rose like a clear breath of sweet wisdom that gave me comfort, reassurance, friendship and warmth.  Maybe it will be significant for you too.

"How do I begin recovery from an eating disorder?" That question haunts women's hearts and minds. Letters, e-mails, tweets, blogs, discussion groups and forums are filled with bewildered voices in pain struggling to know how to end their eating disorder way of living.

If you are asking this question you know the answer is

Here's a bit of laughter and joy I found this morning in a tweet from Girlfriendology. Enjoy!

http://www.bottleband.org Performance by the St. Luke's Bottle Band, St. Luke's Lutheran Church, Park Ridge, Illinois, May 6, 2007.

Friends are people with different minds, hearts and souls than you. They can introduce new perspectives, opportunities and ways of doing things just by being your friends and sharing their lives with you.