Does anyone want to know about the Resurrection Plant? Well if you do, you might not get much from this post. However, to make up for that disappointment, I send gracious greetings to any reader out there, and I also express my wish that in future, the references to viruses and pandemics hereunder seem really, [...]
If those of us in recovery from eating disorders really want to turn the tables on weight, why not put weight on a turntable? Consider the following: Anorexia and Fear of Weight Gain invade a life like Brain Epstein and The Beatles stormed the world of music. (No offense to The Beatles.) Once upon a [...]
Does anyone need part-time employment? Anorexia recovery IS A FULL TIME JOB, with double-shifts. Therefore, if anyone would like to tag along with me on this journey and help me with the baggage, etc., I would appreciate the assistance. The disease debilitated me quite enough over the past 40+ years, and I find myself weary [...]
What would happen if anorexia detached itself from my brain and sat down with me for an interview? Of course, I would have no interest in asking the disease any questions, because I already know far too well how it would answer. Yet, what if these two entities – anorexia and I – decided to [...]
Does anyone out there in recovery from anorexia nervosa, or from a restrictive eating disorder, have a problem with the term “average”? The etymology of “average” reveals that the word originates from Arabic and, later, French terms meaning “harm to goods.” Way back, in the days when transport of wares depended on seagoing vessels, reimbursement [...]
Why Isn’t Anorexia Recovery More Fun? It should be. Because, if you consider the shift from torture to freedom, freedom looks a lot more desirable. Unfortunately, our brains – not the greater, knowing part, but the day-to-day, functioning part – do not assess the torture as torture, but more as a way of arranging life [...]
So, you are in recovery from anorexia, and you ask the question, “Should I exercise?” If you wonder whether or not you should, chances are very great that you SHOULD NOT exercise. Why do I opine so? Because any wavering in anorexia recovery usually means that you should do the recovery-oriented option, not the anorexic, [...]
What do you think about the term “binge”? What do you think “binge” means? What would a “binge” look like to you? To me, because the term “binge” connotes all kinds of negativity, I hesitate to use the word, period. However, the word pervades our language in many ways, and I now want to [...]
Why do I make long videos about music on my YouTube channel? – What does this have to do with anorexia recovery? Well, a music contest certainly does not have anything to do with anorexia recovery, not directly. Indirectly, though, a long YouTube video made by a person dedicated to recovering from this dreadful [...]
[Trigger Alert: I mention numbers/weights in this particular blog, so please read at your discretion] My name is Billie Julianna Cantrell, and I was born in Nashville, TN in 1970. My parents are attorneys, and I have an older sister. I was fairly content in my early childhood, going through the usual joys, aches, and [...]
