[Image: A photograph of a person with long auburn hair, a mustard-coloured long-sleeved top, and black framed spectacles sat in front of shelves filled with books. They have one eye open and one closed and are looking at the camera with a great, friendly smile] [Trigger Warning: Discussion of eating disorders] jennyteacups: rattled: on recovery & its varying behavioral stages over at Jenny Teacups “I still find myself alone in bed in the middle of the night, overcome with an anxiety so formidable that it rattles my body to tears. Recovery from an eating disorder is not only about learning to eat ‘normally’; recovery is about reexamining my entire relationship with food and my body and how and why these preoccupations have come to swallow my entire personality.” Jenny is a marvellous, wonderful person who was kind enough to write in Mind Over Matter zine issue #1 about her mental health experiences leading up to and following a severe car accident and how her navigation through recovering from the physical injuries it left her with has affected her relationship with her body. She writes very eloquently and I thoroughly recommend reading this latest post. Her zine, ‘These Monsters Are Real’ is available for download here [Trigger Warning: Discussion of sexual abuse], and her other zine, ‘Questions of Misbehaviour’ can be viewed here. “Traumatized people suffer damage to the basic structures of the self. They lose trust in themselves, in other people…The identity they have formed prior to the trauma is irrevocably destroyed” -Judith Lewis Herman

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[Trigger Warning: Discussion of eating disorders]

jennyteacups:

rattled: on recovery & its varying behavioral stages over at Jenny Teacups

“I still find myself alone in bed in the middle of the night, overcome with an anxiety so formidable that it rattles my body to tears. Recovery from an eating disorder is not only about learning to eat ‘normally’; recovery is about reexamining my entire relationship with food and my body and how and why these preoccupations have come to swallow my entire personality.”

Jenny is a marvellous, wonderful person who was kind enough to write in Mind Over Matter zine issue #1 about her mental health experiences leading up to and following a severe car accident and how her navigation through recovering from the physical injuries it left her with has affected her relationship with her body. She writes very eloquently and I thoroughly recommend reading this latest post.

Her zine, ‘These Monsters Are Real’ is available for download here [Trigger Warning: Discussion of sexual abuse], and her other zine, ‘Questions of Misbehaviour’ can be viewed here.

“Traumatized people suffer damage to the basic structures of the self. They lose trust in themselves, in other people…The identity they have formed prior to the trauma is irrevocably destroyed”

-Judith Lewis Herman

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