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If you look at trauma or the person who inflicted pain upon you through lenses with empathy and understanding, that is the gateway to healing.

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The silver lining of having your heart broken into a million pieces is the grace, strength, and resilience which you now carry with you.

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I hate this perpetuated stereotype that you’re only sick if you look sick.

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Please, I beg you, do not comment on how much or how little I eat. Do not talk about food with me or weight or diets unless you are my psychologist or dietician. Please do not comment on my body.

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In two short weeks, I will be stepping into recovery.

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Always. 

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The bravest thing I have ever done was give myself permission to bloom. Without rules, without limits.

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Addiction is a brain disease that, through a series of biochemical mechanisms resulting from repeated behaviors, creates an overwhelming, animalistic urge as pressing and intense as the bursting bladder.

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Recovery isn’t linear. Recovery doesn’t have one magical formula that can apply to the multitude of unique circumstances each person may encounter. Recovery is about doing the best we can with what we have at the time.

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Recovery is a huge word. It carries so much weight, so much responsibility.