WBB ESSAYS
Slips in Recovery - Not a Failure
- by wicked.sister
[Response to someone who felt like her 7 days of healthy eating were "ruined" by one day relapsing to purging.]
You. did. not. lose it.
Instead of thinking about it as, "There goes all my hard work, screw it then, might as well eat and puke for the next five days!" think about it as what it was - A bump on the road to recovery.
The all-or-nothing thinking of eating disorders can even sabotage us in recovery, because it tells us that one slip-up immediately means we have failed. In reality, recovery is a process - a marathon and not a sprint.
So, you ate well for a week? So... 7 days, 3 meals a day. That means that you had 21 opportunities to fail, right? 21 chances to eat, then puke. ...But you? You succeeded 20 of those times. 20 outta 21 ain't bad.
Right now... *does math on calculator*... You're scoring a 95.3% on recovery!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is nowhere near bad, nowhere near failing, nowhere near ground zero. Just get up where you fell down, sweetie. No need to backtrack.
- by wicked.sister
