Why Choose Recovery?

I’ve been spending time on clarify my intentions around why I choose – and should choose – eating disorder recovery.

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Sometimes it can feel like one long slog, right? Connecting with our WHY is integral to staying on the path.

I choose eating disorder recovery because I feel better. I have no desire to allow myself to go back to that place before I started recovery. I feel so much more regulated and have much more capacity to be with the world. I am able think clearly, to see deeply, to feel more expansively.

I choose recovery because it has allowed me to connect with people around the world. Through this process of stepping into a more true version of myself, I attract others who are also showing up to this work, who are dedicated to their healing, and are willing to go beyond surface-level interactions. These connections bring a lot of fulfilment into my life.

I choose eating disorder recovery because I believe it has a positive impact on timelines, breaking generational and cultural patterns and carving a different future for those who I may meet and those I will never meet.

I choose recovery as I feel it is support the collective in our evolutionary process. The more of us show up to this healing work, the greater the awareness, and the greater that we have the chance to ultimately take care of this planet in a better way. I feel that the more that we can connect with our bodies, the more that we can connect and tend to the body of this Earth, who sustains us, who cares for us, who gives so much to us.

I choose recovery because it has rekindled my connection this great mystery, with this unknown, magical, mysterious world. With that, there's been an increased sense of trust, faith and surrender to this healing process. And in that, there's a lot of relief and letting go of control and of needing to know everything - and to rather trust in this greater support.

I choose recovery because there doesn’t feel there is another option. It is in my DNA, it is my service, it is my healing, it is in my soma.

I choose eating disorder recovery because I am supported on this path. I have much gratitude to share and extend to sacred plant medicine allies and psychedelics for providing me with affirmations to keep walking this path. And to remain hopeful and resilient in the in the face of a world that does not support recovery and body diversity.

Connecting with something greater than yourself, and dedicating yourself to a higher purpose, keeps you in eating disorder recovery.

Recovery is not just about and for you - it ripples out into the collective, contributing to the evolution of humanity, impacting past, present and future timelines.

Your healing ripples out into communities, giving them permission to thrive, flourish, and heal. It is about coming into right relationship with the interconnected web of all existence. This is not an individual process. Healing is sacred reciprocity.

Why do you choose recovery?

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