Jenni Schaefer, Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover From Your Eating Disorder And Fall In Love With Life Quotes

With Ed, I always pushed away the good and only heard the bad. Today, I let in the good.

Ironically, this physically weak feeling signifies that I’m actually getting stronger. I know from my past that I will ultimately feel strong if I just sit with the feeling and experience it.

Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn’t be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn’t.

Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times. Real hope combined with doing nothing has never pulled me through.

Clinicians have told me that our emotional is arrested at the age that an eating disorder takes control of our lives. After we recover, we pick up emotionally where we left off at that age.

I left myself out of humanity by focusing on differences. This isolation only strengthened Ed” (17)