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Dream. Recover. Live.: Just Keep Swimming

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Do you remember learning to swim? The thought of swimming the length of a pool was terrifying wasn't it? Well, imagine recovery from anorexia is like swimming the Channel. Hard, challenging and a really, really long way.). You know from the moment you set off that it's going to be tiring and push you to the extreme, but nothing quite prepares you for just how. Challenging it is going to be. In the beginning, you're anxious, is this a bad idea? Here's where the fear set in. Then the doubt sets in. But we ...

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Dream. Recover. Live.: Bella Reminds Me Of Someone..?

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Bella Reminds Me Of Someone? Dying, weak, pale and skeletal, being eaten from the inside by a demon? As a Twilight fan I queued for my midnight screening last night of Breaking Dawn Part 1. Those of you who have read the book and now seen the film will know the story. Bella finds she is pregnant with Edward's child/vampire/immortal featus after having sex on their honeymoon on the Isle of Esmee. Realised that what Bella and Edwards unborn 'child' was doing to her, is what Ana is doing to me. Hard to watc...

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Dream. Recover. Live.: When did recovery become a Quest?

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When did recovery become a Quest? I know, I know, don't compare yourself to others, don't look at other people's recovery and alter yours, or worse, falter or judge. But it's hard not to get riled when recovery bullshit is screaming you in the face. Or maybe the sight of quest bars and protein shakes is going to my head? Replacing a restrictive, controlled lifestyle with counted out and measured food and rigid exercise regimes isn't really the balance meant for recovery is it? No Not one bit. I am ve...

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Dream. Recover. Live.: About Me

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Hey, What's Up? Dream Recover. Live. Is a space for me to do just that. I am 30. I am a broadcast journalist. I suffer with mental health issues. After battling for most of my life with disordered eating, phobias, anxiety and low self-esteem I am in recovery and therapy for anorexia nervosa and using my blog to share my journey through recovery. There is a reason people suffer from them and there are more reasons why people recover. Ms W - My former Care Plan coordinator / ED Clinic Lead Therapist. N - B...

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Dream. Recover. Live.: Crossfading chapters rather than fanfare

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Crossfading chapters rather than fanfare. That's how I'd best describe the turning of the page to the next chapter of recovery. The chapter of recovery where treatment has come to an end. The next page I see is blank, not with a pre-written title in the corner, no one dictating appointments or plans. No weekly dietician, no weigh ins, no blood tests.blank. Just a date in the diary to check in in a couple of months. By then I'll be 30 and we'll have a new Government. As much as I wish it meant that.).

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Dream. Recover. Live.: Home

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Hello there, you. I started this blog when I started my recent, and hopefully last, recovery journey in July 2011. It documents my ups and downs and twists and turns of recovery. If you read back to early posts, it covers my pre-contemplation, my confusion, my battle with myself and my journey on this road. I hope it helps show progress and how recovery evolves and becomes more certain as time goes by. I dream of recovery and I believe that recovery from my eating disorder is possible. August 2016 ( 2 ).

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Dream. Recover. Live.: Time flies when you're not having fun

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Time flies when you're not having fun. As much freedom as recovery brings, it's really NOT fun. This week marks two years. Since I was admitted to my EDU and 'officially' diagnosed with anorexia and it's been one hell of a whirlwind of change, calories, food, weight, therapy, bloods, scans, tears, smiles, giggles. But on the whole, two years in, I've not looked back. When will I learn it'd been less tiring if I went in a straight line sometimes? I wish I could sit here and honestly believe myself when I ...

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Dream. Recover. Live.: Links

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Links to website and resources to help recovery. Beat provides helplines, online support and a network of UK-wide self-help groups to help adults and young people in the UK beat their eating disorders. They're also on Twitter @BeatED. NEDA is an America organisation which supports individuals and families affected by eating disorders, and serves as a catalyst for prevention, cures and access to quality care . Vincent Square NHS Eating Disorders Service. Information and statistics about eating disorders.

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Dream. Recover. Live.: The Epic Recovery Road Trip

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The Epic Recovery Road Trip. I've never been a random road trip girl. I'm much more a step-by-step directions, plans and packing in order person. I always want an itinerary, need to prepare a picnic and I need to know where I'm going. Do I struggle when I get lost, can't see the route clearly? Recovery is an epic road trip. You know the destination, but there are no step-by-step directions, there is no estimated arrival time and you're behind the wheel, whether you like it or not. That U-turn and drive b...