#recovery

Looking For Love and Looking In All The Wrong Places ↗

— Gordon Rouston

#love

In the past, I was a perpetual victim; how I was doing in any given moment depended on what happened to me. Today I do my best to avoid this kind of ‘victim thinking.’ Instead, how I am doing is determined by how I respond to what happens to me. ↗

— Jenni Schaefer

#recovery #love

Anita Johnston, Ph.D., author of Eating in the Light of the Moon, taught me to look in the mirror with curiosity rather than fear. So I may look at my reflection and think, ‘That’s interesting. I wonder why my body seems bigger today than it did yesterday. Maybe it’s water weight. Maybe it’s my outfit. Or maybe my eyes are just playing tricks on me.’ I know it’s not possible for me to gain a noticeable amount of weight overnight, so I will go no further than that. I move on with my day without skipping a beat—and definitely without missing a meal. ↗

— Jenni Schaefer

#eating-disorder #recovery #self-perception #love

I left myself out of humanity by focusing on differences. This isolation only strengthened Ed” (17) ↗

— Jenni Schaefer

#eating-disorder #recovery #love

Oftentimes, especially during my recovery, I didn’t need to think about everything I was doing wrong; instead, I needed to focus more on what I was doing right—and then do more of the right stuff. I needed to live more in the solution. ↗

— Jenni Schaefer

#positive-thinking #recovery #love

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with our first great sorrow. Before we know what it is to have loved and lost, to despaired and have recovered hope. ↗

— George Elliot

#inspirational #loss #mourning #recovery #inspirational

Compulsive behavior occurs when the urge to act out is greater than our will to say no. Recovery then, is the process of reversing that equation. ↗

— Roger Stark

#recovery #inspirational

Our wounds are not a measure of one individual’s sad fate, but an indication of our unity with others. ↗

— Lynn C. Tolson

#inspirational #recovery #inspirational

We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions. ↗

— Anne Wilson Schaef

#addiction #addictions #addictive #another #first

'Early stages' is when the cancer is completely contained within the prostate. If it is detected when the cancer is entirely in the gland, the chance for full recovery is at its highest. ↗

— Len Dawson

#chance #completely #contained #detected #early