Quotes from recovering anorexics found on the website www.something-fishy.org that describe
If You Really Knew Me You'd Know That...
1. I desperately want to be accepted.
2. I am afraid of not winning this battle.
3. Just now I am figuring out who I am.
4. I have a hard time with the concept of forgiving.
5. I smile all the time because I don't know what else to do.
6. I am starting to become comfortable with the idea that I am ordinary and there is nothing wrong with that.
7. My eating disorder is not the problem; it is the symptom of my real problems.
8. Sometimes I want you to listen, not talk, not interrupt, not offer advice or suggestions. Sometimes I just want you to sit there and listen and to feel like I have been heard.
9. Sometimes the weight of my sadness is bone-crushing, like the water down deep.
10. At the start of the next day, even before I brush my teeth, I ask God to help me stop from hurting myself or anyone around me.
11. What I want right now more than anything is love from myself. If I had more self-love, the negativity, the criticisms, the thoughts, the low self-esteem, the self-doubts would all cease.
12. I really do care about you more than you will ever know.
to be continued....
Faith
Wisdom
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
--E. L. Doctorow
It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.
--Isaac Asimov
The Butterfly
"The butterfly is ever more blessed than other creatures of flight. Though all grace the heavens in the ecstasy of flight, the butterfly has known the drudgery of the crawl and the lonely confinement of the cocoon. His new found freedom is richer, wilder and more thrilling than life itself. This is the beauty of recovery.
--Author Unknown
To be nobody but yourself--in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
~E.E. Cummings
Serenity Prayer
God, grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the thing I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.
You Are Loveable
We go back...and back...and back...through the layers of fear, shame, rage, hurt, and negative incantations until we discover the exuberant, unencumbered, delightful, and lovable child that was, and still is, in us.
-Beyond Codependency
--E. L. Doctorow
It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.
--Isaac Asimov
The Butterfly
"The butterfly is ever more blessed than other creatures of flight. Though all grace the heavens in the ecstasy of flight, the butterfly has known the drudgery of the crawl and the lonely confinement of the cocoon. His new found freedom is richer, wilder and more thrilling than life itself. This is the beauty of recovery.
--Author Unknown
To be nobody but yourself--in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
~E.E. Cummings
Serenity Prayer
God, grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the thing I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.
You Are Loveable
We go back...and back...and back...through the layers of fear, shame, rage, hurt, and negative incantations until we discover the exuberant, unencumbered, delightful, and lovable child that was, and still is, in us.
-Beyond Codependency
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