LETTERS TO THE HEALING HEART

You may suffer from an eating disorder, but you are not your behaviour or your weight or your food intake. You may suffer from a mood disorder or schizophrenia that cause you to enter states of psychosis, but you are not your psychotic or delusional thoughts or your mood swings or your highs and lows. You may suffer from depression but you are not your episodes, You may suffer from anxiety and panic disorder, but you are not your attacks. You may suffer from derealization/depersonalization, but you are not your lost identity or your confused thoughts or your disconnection. You may suffer from OCD, but you are not your obsessions or complusive behaviour or intrusive thoughts. You may suffer from bordeline personality disorder, but you are not the messiness of your mind or you dependency or your manipulation. You are not your illnesses, your disorders, your struggles. You are poetry. You are light. You are pure passion and love and color and energy and love, and...

This is a post for those who struggle with anxiety about food, around the holidays especially. On social media, around the holidays, I see alot of talk about going on a diet to "burn off" the food you ate or going on some sort of weight loss/ maintaing program to try to not gain weight from eating the food you are eating over the holidays. And I want to say :YOU DO NOT HAVE TO USE COMPENSATORY BEHAVIOUR BECAUSE YOU CHOSE TO FUEL YOUR BODY. The food you eat over the holidays may feel like extra, but in reality the body is built to burn energy, and supplying it the energy it needs to be able to keep you alive and functioning is not a bad thing. You do not have to compensate because you chose to fuel your body. I'm not saying not to do joyful movement and excercise during the holiday season. Go on walks to look at the Christmas lights, or go on walks during the day to be enriched by the beauty of the changing leaves and colorful trees right now. Go on bike...