The most challenging thing I have ever done in my life is recovering from an eating disorder. It was painful to let go of my comforting habits of counting calories, eating clean, avoiding fats and extreme exercise.
Doing the opposite of what I craved to do every day was debilitating. Letting go of my eating disorder removed the wall between me and myself, causing me to face what I thought was the scariest thing in the world: myself.
For so long, I had been trying to run away from my deepest darkest insecurities and emotions. I wanted to desensitize myself by starving my soul to numb everything.
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