Sunday Solace:April 20, 2025 ๐ฑ Gentle Nourishment for the Week Ahead โ Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change. โ Dr. Brenรฉ Brown If youโve ever judged yourself for how you cope, especially when it doesnโt look picture-perfect (whether it was eating a sleeve of Thin Mints, or ignoring your calls, texts, and emails for a week), youโre not alone. It's pretty natural to take stock of our behaviors and think, "Yep that was good" or "Nope, that was bad." But...
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Sunday Solace:April 13, 2025 ๐ฑ Gentle Nourishment for the Week Ahead โ Feelings donโt want fixing. They want witnessing. โ Glennon Doyle Hi Reader! Have you ever been told to "just let it go" or "get over it" as if your pain, fear, or overwhelm could be released with a snap of your fingers? Yeah, of course you have. ๐โ๏ธ Me too. If youโre a Highly Sensitive Person, chances are that advice-command-wish feels super unhelpful and, well...RUDE. But it also feels impossible. And that sucks. In this...
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Sunday Solace:April 6, 2025 ๐ฑ Gentle Nourishment for the Week Ahead โ Humor can get in under the door while Seriousness is still fumbling at the handle. โ G.K. Chesterton Eating disorders donโt just mess with our relationship with food and movement - they mess with our logic. Looking back, some of the rules I followed were so bizarre that they're kinda funny now. When you're IN IT, those rules and ways of living are survival techniques, but also so unnecessary, exhausting, and, frankly, kind...
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Sunday Solace:March 30, 2025 ๐ฑ Gentle Nourishment for the Week Ahead โ Recovery is built in the quiet moments of choosing yourself again and again. โ Unknown Hey there, Reader! If you've ever watched a movie or television show about someone with an eating disorder, you might expect that recovery would be marked by huge breakthroughs (which inevitably happen after a "rock bottom" of fainting in public or something). But in my experience, the moments that truly changed my healing were small and...
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Sunday Solace:March 23, 2025 ๐ฑ Gentle Nourishment for the Week Ahead โ When obsession with healthy eating takes over, it stops being about health. โ Dr. Steven Bratman Reader, When does striving for health become unhealthy? Have you ever felt like the pursuit of โhealthy eatingโ was all-consuming? Like every food decision was life-or-death or carried the weight of whether or not you're a good person? If so, youโre not alone. Highly Sensitive People are deeply attuned to their bodies and the...
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Sunday Solace:March 16, 2025 ๐ฑ Gentle Nourishment for the Week Ahead โ "You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously." โ Sophia Bush Hey hey Reader! The giant pile of snow outside my front door (Thank you, snow plows. No seriously, I'm grateful for you!) is disappearing by the day!! Fingers crossed this is not a Spring of Deception! ๐ I hope you aren't sick of my blog series like I'm sick of winter because I have TWO more eating disorders I want to talk...
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Sunday Solace:March 9, 2025 ๐ฑ Gentle Nourishment for the Week Ahead โ Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summerโs day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. โ John Lubbock Dear Reader, If youโre someone who feels everything deeply (I'm talking sounds, emotions, expectations, the energy of a room, ALL the things...), then you know how quickly overstimulation and overwhelm can creep...
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Sunday Solace:March 2, 2025 ๐ฑ Gentle Nourishment for the Week Ahead โ The things that we most want to control are often the things that end up controlling us. โ Cheryl Strayed It's a new month, Reader! I love March. Not just because it's my birthday month ๐ฅณ (woohoo!) but because it means my third New England winter is hopefully starting to wind down. Don't get me wrong, I love having seasons again. It thrills my little HSP heart. But I'm tired of being cold, ok? Anyway...I digress. Here we...
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Sunday Solace:February 23, 2025 ๐ฑ Gentle Nourishment for the Week Ahead โ Our minds distort our bodies, but our bodies also distort our minds. โ Roxane Gay Reader! Guess what! I have now been blogging every week for a year straight!! That's right. There's now over a year's worth of content on Your Sensitive Recovery to support people just like you. I wanted to shout about it because I'm dang proud of it, and I'm SO glad you're a reader! ๐ฅณ ๐ I'm back this week with post number 2 in the blog...
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