Sometimes eating disorder recovery doesn't feel freeing. Instead, it feels terrifying, uncomfortable and WORSE than restriction. This eating disorder recovery message offers support to help you navigate those difficult moments.

In eating disorder recovery, increasing your meal plan can feel worse than restricting. Weight gain can feel worse than being underweight. Letting go of compulsive exercise can feel unbearable, and sitting with food guilt, bloating, fullness, uncertainty and body image distress can make you wonder whether recovery is actually worth it.

The honest truth: recovery isn't always going to feel good in the beginning.

You're asking yourself to move towards things your eating disorder has taught you to fear, and your brain can interpret that discomfort as evidence that you're doing something  ...