Team Recovery: Archive

May 19th

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Apr 2nd

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Apr 2nd

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Apr 2nd

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Jan 27th

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Advice for carers, from a carer

We know that eating disorders don’t JUST affect the sufferer or person in recovery. Recovery requires support from everyone around the person fighting an eating disorder and the journey can be just as conflicting, tough and confusing for them too. We were touched by a post on our Facebook page from a man who cared for his partner through her recovery. She’s now been 5 years recovered...

Jan 25th

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Jan 22nd

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Jan 22nd

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Jan 21st

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Jan 18th

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Jan 18th

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Jan 18th

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Stigma and relationships by Recovery Ninja Rachel

Stigma and relationships #WhyDoPeople judge you on your past not your present? #IWouldDoAnythingFor a guy who likes me for me in the present Why have I written the above on my Twitter? I would love to meet someone who could like everything about me, including the fact I am a recovered anorexic and a self harmer. Yet due to the stigma surrounding mental health, I have not found a...

Jan 18th

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Jan 10th

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Why doesn't recovery just FEEL better?

Recovery Ninja Sarah tries to find positives in recovery not automatically ‘feeling’ great… Why doesn’t it just FEEL better? I was reminded by MrsW of an analogy of an abused wife or girlfriend leaving her partner this week and I need to CONSTANTLY think about this and not turn back… She may leave her husband and escape the physical abuse, she’s in a...

Jan 8th

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Guest Blog: Emma's Recovery Journey

‘In FULL Colour’ People sometimes misunderstand eating disorders, seeing them as self inflicted illnesses, or a way of getting attention. For me, it was anything but. Anorexia is an insidious illness, and it crept up on me gradually. I was unhappy, and, perhaps not unusual for a teenage girl, directed my unhappiness onto my body. Before I knew what had happened, the fun loving,...

Dec 30th

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Dec 29th

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Dec 29th

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Dec 27th

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Dec 27th

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Dec 27th

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Dec 27th

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Guest Blog: Kate's Recovery Journey

Team Recovery is ALL about sharing RECOVERY stories, we all know suffering, we all know the pain an eating disorder brings, we don’t always need reminding of this, but we do need to remind ourselves, we can break out of the most complicated entrapment. This is Kate’s recovery journey… “Have you eaten anything today” There was no need to respond, no answer was required, the...

Dec 9th

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Dec 9th

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Guest Blog: A Recovery Garden

We love this piece of creative writing by Bridget Posluszny-Levenstein, shared via the Team Recovery Facebook group. Bridget wrote this 10 months in to her recovery, after suffering with anorexia for 26 years, proof that recovery REALLY is possible, even after two decades of suffering. We hope you can relate and be inspired too. Thank you for sharing Bridget. Our Recovery Garden Each one of...

Dec 9th

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Dec 7th

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Dec 6th

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Dec 6th

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Dec 6th

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Dec 6th

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Dec 6th

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Dec 6th

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Guest Blog: Wild Geese's Recovery Journey

Another guest blog from another incredibly strong Recovery Ninja. Sometimes when people have lived with ED for years, decades and most of their life, they forget there is a life outside of it. This is NOT the case, however long you’ve kept ED a secret, however long you’ve been controlled by your disorder, you CAN recover. You just need to find that spark and take the plunge into...

Dec 6th

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Guest Blog: Sam's Recovery Journey

We love to share positive and powerful stories of speaking out against eating disorders, speaking up about struggles and sharing insights to recovery. Everyone is different and everyone is unique, but sometimes stories just help us understand each other, and subsequently ourselves a little more. This is Sam Newby’s story… My destructive relationship with food began at a very early...

Dec 6th

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I Hate Anorexia from Recovery Ninja Rachel

Monday, 16 May 2011 I Hate Anorexia It’s true; I really do. I used to not mind that anorexia had happened to me as it had made me the person I am today. But now I hate her for making me so far behind people my own age; for having such low self esteem that I put up with bad treatment not just from boys, but friends and work too; for self harming and for ruining my body. I...

Oct 31st

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