Equine Blooming

Take the reminder you need into your week 🤍

Food is comfort, food is connection, food is novelty & memory 🍦🧋

We nourish our bodies, but we also feed our souls 🍯

Every day of my life, I feel a VAST colorful array of emotions☀️

And sometimes one color wins out 🌧️

Or I have a week like this one, with some awesome highs (took Faye on her first trail ride! Ate delicious cheesecake!), coupled with some deep sad blues (family health scares, big big grief).

But together, it is my life. It is messy, it’s unconventional, and it’s really, really, REALLY emotional. Those emotions lift me up, they lift my friends and family. And, they remind me what’s real, they point me back home, and they show me why I care. 🌈 ✨ 🍓

Loving someone with an eating disorder comes with a level of vulnerability and worry that often puts friendship on the back-burner.

That doesn’t change the fact that it can often be a very emotional and potentially confusing time for those on the outside.

I continue to learn so, so much from my friends, and I think they could write textbooks about how to be a friend to someone in recovery.

So if that’s what you need, ideas on how to support & how to love… I present to you- the 5 friendship lessons that saw me through my eating disorder recovery.

https://valiantrecovery.substack.com/p/how-to-be-a-friend-to-someone-in