National Eating Disorder Awareness Week

❗️ It’s national eating disorder awareness week❗️

If there’s one thing l may tell you: Let it be. YOU ARE YOUR HOME 🏡! Your body is the only house that you will ever truly own. So please don’t look at mansions with that envy in your eyes, there’s more that makes a home than its appearance or its size. Your body is your shelter, so you deserve to love it all. Don’t let the world stand round outside and tell you how to paint your walls!

This message is important to me but possibly to many others. When l look at this picture, l see someone counting all the calories, not eating even close enough, absolutely hating her own body, her own home. I have been battling with eating disorders for over a decade and l can tell you it’s not something someone can get over with. It’s a daily process and it’ll be part of your life forever. But it’s possible to fight against it, even if it seems unbearable. Looking at this picture, l remember not feeling good enough, not feeling worthy but most importantly not feeling thin enough. I remember feeling disgusting and horrifying fat. But now l’d give anything to look like that to be honest. The point is, you’re never ‘thin enough’! There is no such thing. If you suffer from an eating disorder you’ll never be thin enough. But you can still learn to love your body.

If you don’t understand mental illness, good. Good for you. You shouldn’t have to understand. If you don’t understand what would drive someone to keep starving themselves or purging despite everything they’ve lost in the process. Good. I hope you stay healthy and happy in your own body.

What if the number on the scale didn’t mean anything? It didn’t mean you were too fat or too skinny. It didnt mean you were healthy or unhealthy. It didn’t mean you were more attractive or more beautiful. It didn’t mean you were better or worse than the person next to you. I gave that number so much power over my life. I decided that knowing how much l weighted surved no purpose.

While l have truly experienced life with an , l know how easily the number on the scale can play a role in your mental and physical health and happiness. If you struggle with the scale, disordered thought patterns or an , l hope you know you’re not alone.

Use this week to remind others that their worth is not dependent on a number, size or image. Remember to always be kind to others but also to be kind to yourself ✨🙌🏼