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We attach to survive

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Before we make sense of the world, the world shapes our mind. If what we take in through our senses conveys to our brain that we don’t have safety or acceptance in the world, we conclude negative things about who we are in it. Nurture begins the day we are birthed and it can greatly …

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Starving from disorders

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Chronic pain has been an issue in my life on such a profound level that it was exasperated by an eating disorder, or did the eating disorder invite the chronic pain? It is the chicken or the egg cleche of which came first, but after working with others who have an aversion to bodily acceptance, …

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Disordered parts don’t define us

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I struggled with a chemical imbalance that diagnosed me with depression that manifested as an impending doom cloud each day I opened my eyes for over three decades. That type of imbalance trailed throughout many of the psycho-somatic ailments that Doctors believed were my lot in life, but they weren't. Nobody could offer the anecdote …

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