A LITTLE ABOUT ME
Personal Background
I was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. I briefly attended the University of West Florida in Pensacola, Florida. I left college to pursue my writing career.
About My Eating Disorder
Due to low self esteem, poor body Image, and a host of other emotional issues that are too lengthy to go into on this website, I developed eating disorders at the age of fourteen. I did not recognize and accept the fact that I had a problem until I went to college. I was taking a Kineseology class. One day the instructor gave a lecture on anorexia nervosa and bulimia, and, for some reason, I definitely believe it was God, after many years of denial and fighting with anyone who accused me of having an eating disorder, it suddenly clicked for me that I had a problem and that I needed help. (It was a lot more emotional and dramatic than it sounds.) That revelation happened in 1994. Today I am doing fine. I still battle the mental symptoms of my disorders--poor body image, feeling extremely fat, wanting to diet and lose weight--but now I know those feelings are wrong and untrue, and I deal with them accordingly.
I will never be 100% cured of anorexia or bulimia. Every day of my life for the rest of my life I will have to work to keep my disorders under control. Just as an alcoholic, whether he or she is drinking or sober, is always an alcoholic, I will always be an anorexic and a bulimic, but at least it is a "recovering" anorexic and bulimic and not an "active" one!
Current Status
I currently live in Waxahachie, Texas (how I ended up in Texas all the way from Chicago is another book in and of itself) with my wonderful husband of four years and our two cats Colonel and Sebastian. I am thirty-two years old.
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