Healing your Eating Disorder

Recovery is a choice, it is not one that someone else can make for you. The only person truly in charge of your recovery is yourself. This can be scary, sometimes we may feel weak, like we can't do it alone. It can also be empowering, when you do recover you know you just overcame one of the most difficult struggles in your life and that strength all came from within you. You might even like the idea of it because it offers you a different type of control. Instead of controlling your restriction, you control your recovery.

The truth is you were put on this earth for so much more than to just be thin. You were created absolutely perfect, and if you were meant to be a different size, then you would not struggle or suffer to get there. No restriction would be needed, because your body would tell you when it is hungry and you would eat. Then it would tell you when it is full, and you would stop. Yet we have managed to turn food into a way of harming ourselves. We don't love ourselves so we think we aren't deserving of listening to our cravings. We have developed a sense of fear against certain foods because they will make us gain weight, and then what? Society won't accept us? We won't find love and we will lose our friendships and be an outcast?

This is what the ego will tell you, and it only keeps you separate from others. The ego does not want you to have relationships because it believes that other people are evil and will hurt you or leave you. It keeps you safe in your eating disorder allowing you to control something in your life when you feel nothing else is in control.

It's time to surrender, and it begins with forgiving yourself. Forgive yourself for putting other people's opinions above your own. For valuing yourself based on your appearance, rather than the love you have to give to others. God does not want you to live in isolation, to avoid going out with friends or to dinner parties. God wants you to feel loved and perfect just as you are. If you are overweight, it's time to let go of using food as a distraction from the feelings of unworthiness you feel inside. Address the problems in your life head on and let food serve its true purpose of nourishing you, providing energy, and bringing your soul back to life.

The answer is not eating less or eating more, the answer is love. Self-love, self-acceptance, and love and acceptance of everyone around you, because when we stop judging others, we notice we no longer judge ourselves either. We give ourselves permission to be who we are because we have given that same allowance to the world. Everyone is searching for a way to feel loved. Give love freely and you will notice how easily you receive it back. Your recovery is waiting for you, love is waiting for you. Make the choice to begin today, and witness the miracles in store for your future when you decide to do something different, new, and out of the desire to heal. You are fully supported, and your soul is calling for your return home.