First Steps Towards Recovery!

For someone who feels completely consumed and powerless, what’s the first step toward recovery?

The first step towards recovery, I feel, is simply try and daydream – even for 10 minutes – about a life without an eating disorder. What does that look and feel like? This helps to shut the ED up a bit. Then make a list about who YOU are. What do you like, or dislike? What do you love and/or what are you passionate about? And how can you build a new life around this answer? What are my personal qualities, and what are my values? What are my goals? This may take a lot of inner exploration. But this is necessary to move forward.

Next steps, make a plan to do something you enjoy, which the ED hates. And find a way to laugh! Remember that there is still a sparkle inside of you – the ED can and does dull that sparkle, so find ways to bring that sparkle back. Find a sense of joy. And follow that.

Try to not step on the scales tomorrow. Try to eat something you wouldn’t normally eat.

Listen to music. Dance.

All of these things are like kryptonite to your ED.
Tell Your Eating Disorder to F**k Off. Find your sparkle and do whatever you can to keep that sparkle alive. This is how you get your power back. Period.