by Sally Rosa | Dec 28, 2016 | Addiction Articles, Body Image / Eating Disorders, Drug Addiction
A Princess of Substance Abuse Recovery and Role Model When I heard the news that Carrie Fisher, (better known to the world as Princess Leia for Star Wars) had passed away I felt like I had been punched in the gut. I was on my way to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting at...
by Sally Rosa | Oct 20, 2016 | Blog, Body Image / Eating Disorders
Donald Trump’s Words Could Prove Fatal To Women With An An Eating Disorder As a woman in recovery from an eating disorder, I have been glued to CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, CSPAN and all the others throughout the election. I have been waiting for one of the thousands of...
by Fiona Stockard | Apr 16, 2015 | Addiction Articles, Body Image / Eating Disorders
New Facts about Eating Disorders According to a recent study done by researchers at the University of Southampton and the Solent NHS Trust, women experiencing financial difficulties are more likely to develop an eating disorder. This study, led by clinical...
by Sally Rosa | Dec 17, 2014 | Addiction Articles, Body Image / Eating Disorders
Is Being Skinny Everything? You can’t turn on your TV, check your email, or go on Facebook and Instagram without being bombarded by the message that skinny is everything. In today’s world, we’re constantly, and I mean constantly, told that less pounds = more...
by A Women in Sobriety | Nov 10, 2014 | Addiction Articles, Body Image / Eating Disorders
How It All Started At the age of twelve, I started to feel different about myself. I saw flaws and didn’t like what I saw in the mirror. It was the summer and I remember looking in my friends mirror and seeing my body for what felt like the first time. I hated my...
by A Women in Sobriety | Aug 6, 2014 | Addiction Articles, Body Image / Eating Disorders
Written By: Katie Schipper How Yoga and Eating Disorder Recovery Work Together Like the complicated make-up of eating disorders, yoga and eating disorder recovery work together as multi-disciplinary and varied practices. They share variance – eating disorders on one...
by Fiona Stockard | May 28, 2014 | Addiction Articles, Body Image / Eating Disorders
Written By: Katie Schipper Eating Disorders are incredibly dangerous and deeply misunderstood diseases. They claim the lives of every gender, religion, social class, age group, culture, and race. There’s no one who’s immune to an eating disorder, just like there’s no...
by Fiona Stockard | May 19, 2014 | Addiction Articles, Body Image / Eating Disorders
Written By: Katie Schipper Misconceptions About Eating Disorders Like addiction and alcoholism, eating disorders are a vastly misunderstood disease. The mental, emotional, spiritual and physical anguish that accompany an active eating disorder is immense. Also like...
by Sally Rosa | Apr 18, 2014 | Addiction Articles, Body Image / Eating Disorders
Written By: Fiona Stockard Facebook Is The Biggest Thing Around In the HBO show Girls, Shoshanna and Jessa have the following conversation – Shoshanna: Your not serious, that’s like not being on Facebook! Jessa: I’m not on Facebook. Shoshanna: You’re so f**king...
by Sally Rosa | Mar 26, 2014 | Addiction Articles, Body Image / Eating Disorders
Written By: Fiona Stockard “I am not eccentric! It’s just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel, set in a pond of Goldfish!” – Damn Edith Sitwell I spent a lot of my youth trying desperately to fit in. Big surprise, right? People would...
by A Women in Sobriety | Feb 27, 2014 | Addiction Articles, Body Image / Eating Disorders
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by A Women in Sobriety | Nov 11, 2013 | Body Image / Eating Disorders
Beauty’s in the Eye of the Beholder When did skinny as a rail, I can see your ribs, you look like a starving Ethiopian become what men want? Back in the day, like way back in the day, larger people were desirable. Having meat on your bones meant you had a lot of...
by Fiona Stockard | Aug 6, 2013 | Body Image / Eating Disorders
A Different Kind of Freedom Breaking free from an eating disorder can be tremendously challenging, but it’s so worth it! There’s this beautiful freedom that comes from ending the war between yourself and your body. For those who want to recover, the question is how?...
by Fiona Stockard | Jul 27, 2013 | Body Image / Eating Disorders
Anorexia Kills! Anorexia affects MILLIONS of people each year. If that weren’t scary enough, the amount of deaths caused directly by anorexia has SKYROCKETED over the last five year. Got your attention? Good! It’s important to be aware of the warning signs of...
by Fiona Stockard | Jul 19, 2013 | Body Image / Eating Disorders
Alcoholism and Anorexia In terms of healthy body image, living in a resort town was really intimidating! I was obsessed with going out every night. I was obsessed with looking sexy! There was a problem though, I wasn’t as thin as my friends. I found myself full of...
by A Women in Sobriety | Jul 14, 2013 | Body Image / Eating Disorders
Together, Sobriety for Women and Addicted to Recovery have formed the Addiction & Body Imaging Recovery Project. We recognize that many women and men experience poor body image. This can take the form of an eating disorder, mental illness, or just plain, old not...
