Eating Disorder Recovery Quotes

“Hold yourself back, or heal yourself back together. You decide.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“Recovery is full of ups and downs.
There is no such thing as a linear life.
But you can always turn your setbacks into setups to come back stronger.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“Just because something is familiar, doesn't mean it's safe. And just because something feels safe, doesn't mean it's good for you.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“Recovery is hard. Regret is harder.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“Even if you do initially start out with a keen intention to 'fight' your disorder, to fight for your health and your life, it's not a decision you make once and for all, but thousands and thousands of smaller decisions throughout the day.”
― Evanna Lynch, The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up

“For me, recovery from recovery was probably the most confusing time – the most lonely, frustrating and psychologically challenging time. It did not feel heroic and it was also incredibly tedious.”
― Evanna Lynch, The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up

“Not all battles are visible and neither are the victories.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“It is called a disorder for a reason. Because it makes no rational sense. It’s completely counterproductive and, the saddest part, it is also dissatisfying and damaging.”
― Callie Bowld, What Goes Down: The End of an Eating Disorder

“Do you want to know the answer? The easiest, simplest solution to all of your hiding, and purging, the end of your exhausting, isolating, repulsive routine?
Just eat. Like a normal person.”
― Callie Bowld, What Goes Down: The End of an Eating Disorder

“There is a type of courage that cannot always be seen. It's a bravery that you have to choose for yourself. You use it in the little, seemingly insignificant choices and decisions you make each day. Keep making these tiny, good choices over and over until you realize your whole life is different and the hero who saved you is yourself.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“I also know that I have forgiven myself. And that it’s okay to laugh at your mistakes, even the dangerous dumb ones.”
― Callie Bowld, What Goes Down: The End of an Eating Disorder

“Healing requires you to be vulnerable and strong at the same time.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“At times I'd felt courageous on the journey, but it was borrowed courage. Now we were here, and neither of us had a plan. Was she going to abandon me, leave me stranded in my body? I'd be in exile with a stomach that demanded more of everything.”
― Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

“The very ironic, almost laughable thing about all of this, is that all the punishment and pain you’re inflicting on yourself is an infinitely harder way to accomplish your end goal of looking and feeling good.”
― Callie Bowld, What Goes Down: The End of an Eating Disorder

“I think we all need to be able to laugh at ourselves every now and then. Otherwise, you’ll take yourself so seriously, nothing will ever get through.”
― Callie Bowld, What Goes Down: The End of an Eating Disorder

“Not all battles or victories are visible.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“Sometimes when you are feeling lonely, desperate and submerged, you think you're drowning, but you can actually begin to grow water wings, because now is your time to learn to swim.”
― Kate Hudson-Hall, Bulimia Sucks!: 10 Simple Steps to Stop Bingeing and Purging

“Mirror Mirror on the wall, it's time to change your vision once and for all.”
― Kate Hudson-Hall, Bulimia Sucks!: 10 Simple Steps to Stop Bingeing and Purging

“Hunger forces a kind of refusal, a brutal, impenetrable independence, leaves us quite literally unable to break bread and connect with the people in our orbit; I realise now that this is how I’ve lived most of my adult life.”
― Fiona Wright, Small Acts of Disappearance

“I think the most successful and accomplished people are those who can show courage and admit they can’t do it alone. It’s pointless to struggle silently behind a fake smile.”
― Brittany Burgunder, Safety in Numbers: From 56 to 221 Pounds, My Battle with Eating Disorders

“Now is the time to save the life you are entitled to live”
― Kate Hudson-Hall, Bulimia Sucks!: 10 Simple Steps to Stop Bingeing and Purging

“ana please leave me alone.
but there, i hear her softly calling,
“come home to me.
i’ll make you beautiful finally.”
.
and i can’t help but trust her lies as
i climb back into her labyrinth of pain and beauty.”
― Lizzy Seitz, I'll See You in Hell: An Open Letter to My Father and Others

“There’s nothing more inspiring than a person’s courage to heal.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“...It's hard for me to lie to myself. It comes natural for me to deceive others but I can never quite be convincing enough to lie to myself, I wish it wasn't so. Rehab for my eating disorder would have been a lot easier...”
― Dylana Alleyne

“Sometimes we need to be drawn to a place so dark that we have no choice but to trust our hearts to illuminate the way.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“To finish race strong eat healthy food physical and spiritual.That means you can't prepare your body and spirit by quitting food,eat healthy in a right time before run the race cause you need stamina (100% healthy) before for doing it.”
― Nozipho N.Maphumulo

“Way of dealing with craving it to direct it in a right way when I say right way I mean healthy eating or doing right things that you'll not regret late that you'll benefits with I'll talk about different crave, eating, doing and more I'll answer all it here.”
― Nozipho N. Maphumulo

“In thick people crave eating is familiar thing, the question is how to deal with it firstly accept it and get the way of living with it, right, the thing here is I don't want you to regret after or end up in a bad situation like sick, being obes handle it in a right way.Snack is your tool get it on your drawer,bag,or near you,snack with diy or bought dried fruit and veggies or raw fruit and veggies will help a lot cut off junk snack.”
― Nozipho N. Maphumulo

“Today is your new future, yesterday is in your past.”
― Kate Hudson-Hall, Bulimia Sucks!: 10 Simple Steps to Stop Bingeing and Purging

“Flowers bloom in valleys and the view from peaks are only as magnificent as the difficult trek to reach them.”
― Brittany Burgunder