Divine By Jess Irvine (2024)

28/02/2022

A short, sweet love letter to my beautiful body:

“Dear body,

Thank you so much for everything you allow me to do and all you allow me to be. I appreciate you so much. You are a divine, magical masterpiece. The vessel for my dreams. Please forgive me for taking so long to see your beauty and miraculous nature. I am committed to nourishing and loving you
for the rest of our days together.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Love Jess xx”

May each nourishing step and choice you make today act as a love letter to your beautiful body. An oath of appreciation for everything your body allows you to do and all it allows you to be. - 𝕁𝕀 𝕩𝕩

24/02/2022

It’s true, it’s true, it’s oh so true. - 𝕁𝕀 𝕩𝕩

23/02/2022

“When it comes to healing, hope and growth - love is always more productive than self-bullying or unkindness.”

I’m not sure why I ever thought that negative self-talk would motivate me to do and be my best in life. I wouldn’t water a plant with w**d killer and expect it to grow. And I don’t think I could be friends with someone who was content on building a friendship up on belittling and unkindness…so it’s sad and strange to think about how many of the years of my life I tried to befriend myself in that way. Love is my priority now. Alongside nourishment. Both are such core values to me now. Because I know that I heal in love. I flourish in love. Love is most nourishing. Love lifts me higher and helps me to live as my highest self and reach my highest potential. A definition which has changed so dramatically in the past year or so. I’ve come to know now that my highest potential is love. And so of course I pave the path to love with love. I hold myself in love. Bathe myself in love. Walk with myself in love. - 𝕁𝕀 𝕩𝕩

23/02/2022

Episode #20: So Much More Than A Body

"We weren’t put on this Earth to spend all of our time fixated on our looks and treating our bodies as objects. We have so much love and so many beautiful gifts within us that yearn to be nurtured and shared. If we do spend our time fixated on fixing our bodies, we waste precious time and energy that could have been spent painting, swimming in the ocean, hugging loved ones, going on hikes, napping, dancing, singing, playing, living and loving.”

You can stream this week’s podcast episode on Spotify and Apple Podcasts now. - 𝕁𝕀 𝕩𝕩

21/02/2022

Hi beautiful humans! I’m so happy to let you know that this week’s podcast episode is now live. Here’s a bit about today’s episode:

Episode #20: So Much More Than A Body

This may have been my favourite episode to right and record. Because if I’ve learnt anything in the past 7 months, it’s that we are so much more than our (beautiful) bodies. That there is so much more to life than our physical appearances. That our bodies deserve so much appreciation and nourishment - the living, breathing miracles they are. By nourishing our bodies and opening ourselves up to a world that goes far beyond our looks, we open ourselves to a rich, meaningful life full of possibilities.

Available for streaming now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. I hope you enjoy today’s episode! - 𝕁𝕀 𝕩𝕩

20/02/2022

“Sometimes the things that we resist the most, end up being the things that help us the most.”

There were two things that I resisted for a very long time that ended up saving my life (quite literally). The first being recovery. I put off reaching out for professional help for so long. I think a big part of me felt afraid to let go of my eating disorders. After all, they had acted as my coping mechanisms for so long and I felt like they were keeping me safe. But in the end, everything that my eating disorders promised me actually came through recovery. The freedom and full life I had always dreamt of turned out to be possible, and today’s reality.

The second being anti-depressants, or SSRI medication. I had a lot of stories playing around in my head about how I couldn’t possibly go there and why. I told myself that I wasn’t trying hard enough on my own. I just needed to meditate more and get some more sleep and read some more books and then I’d feel better. But the ‘better’ never came. And so with a gentle nudge from my doctor, I decided to give them a chance. I began to notice that they were taking the ‘edge’ off my anxiety, depression and ED recovery struggles. Events that once caused full-on panic attacks were now causing what I’d call ‘big emotions’. If I felt awkward or embarrassed in a social situation, I was able to feel through it and often laugh it off…rather than turning to stone and beginning to shake or adding a panic attack to the mental to-do-list for the day. I didn’t feel the looming sense of worthlessness that had plagued me for so long. I felt better. And I began to realise that maybe I was never broken to begin with. I just needed a little help. Maybe my brain just functioned a little differently to others. Not broken, just different.

The things that I resisted the most, ended up being the things that helped me the most. The very things that I thought would be my undoing, helped me to blossom and heal in ways I never thought possible. My experience with recovery and anti-depressants has taught me to be more open. Less judgemental. To dissolve the stigma I had swimming around my mind about mental health, weight, and medication. I’ve come to know the importance of receiving the help and care you need. I’ve come to know that healing, recovery and help is possible. That I am not broken. Just healing. Different. Learning. Growing. Human. Whole. - 𝕁𝕀 𝕩𝕩

18/02/2022

One. Step. At. A. Time. 💛 - 𝕁𝕀 𝕩𝕩

16/02/2022

Something magical happens when we open our hearts and share our vulnerable truth. As if we’re cleaning the frosty window to our soul, and giving others insight into our most raw, wholesome humanness. Vulnerability sure does feel like a superpower. I’m addicted to the feeling of cracking open wide now. Breaking down these walls. Allowing love to flood in and out. Connecting with others at the deepest of levels. Holding space for the vulnerability of others too. Daring to offer love to the parts of myself where I feel the most shame. In sharing vulnerably, I am humbled by my humanness. My wholeness.

I have been so fortunate to have been given safe spaces to share vulnerably. Whether on stages or online or in the presence of loved ones. When vulnerability is met with love and reverence, something transformational and magical takes place. As if I am a shattered piece of porcelain being mended back together with the gold that is love. The Japanese art of 'Kintsugi' involves putting broken pottery pieces back together with gold. It teaches us that our broken places make us stronger and better than ever before. Love is absolutely the gold in this equation when it comes to sharing vulnerably. We crack ourselves open vulnerably and dare to show our scars and shame, and when we are met with love…that gold…it helps us to build resilience and strength and shine the kind of light on our struggles that help us to see the beauty of our humanness and wholeness. We may have cracks and scratches and scars but we are still whole, loved and enough.

Vulnerability is a superpower that opens the flood gates for love, connection, healing and miracles. - 𝕁𝕀 𝕩𝕩

16/02/2022

Episode #19: Becoming Your Own Best Friend

"Love is natural, but it’s not easy if we’re out of practice, with our guard up, and years of trauma built upon what is natural to us at our core. Love is so much more productive in the way of healing and change and transformation. When love is the bedrock for what we offer ourselves and others, magic and connection and healing ensues.”

You can stream this week’s podcast episode on Spotify and Apple Podcasts now. - 𝕁𝕀 𝕩𝕩

14/02/2022

Hi beautiful humans! I’m so happy to let you know that this week’s podcast episode is now live. Here’s a bit about today’s episode:

Episode #19: Becoming Your Own Best Friend

I am learning to hold myself more tenderly in challenging moments. To choose love and compassion over self-blame and shame. Love has been far more productive in my healing journey than the latter. But love isn’t always the default option or the easiest choice to make when we have spent years offering ourselves the opposite. It’s a practice. But through the practice of love, we heal. Our hearts open. To others and ourselves. When love is the bedrock for what we offer ourselves and others, magic, connection and healing ensues.

Available for streaming now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. I hope you enjoy today’s episode! - 𝕁𝕀 𝕩𝕩

13/02/2022

At the beginning of each new year, I choose one word as a theme and intention for the year ahead. This year the word that felt most aligned for me was ‘Nourish’. I am set on nourishing my body, heart, mind, soul, spirit, relationships, creativity, all of it. Every time I am met with a choice, I hold it up to my now most important value - what is most nourishing? Does this nourish me? How can I nourish myself in this situation?

Here are a few ‘nourishing’ affirmations:

✨ I nourish my heart with deep love and compassion
✨ I intuitively listen to, honour and nourish my body
✨ I nourish myself with rest. It is safe for me to take my time.
✨ I nourish my spirit with all that brings me joy
✨ I nourish my inner child by honouring their needs & curiosities

Do you have a word for this year? A theme? An intention?
What feels most nourishing for you right now? - 𝕁𝕀 𝕩𝕩

10/02/2022

I trust my heart.
I trust my body.
I trust my soul.
I trust my gut.
I trust my intuition.
I trust myself.

After spending years and years trusting in everyone and everything but myself, I have come home to myself. There is such power in turning inwards. In honouring what is calling us from within. It’s where we find the greatest treasures and truths. Our dreams and purpose and highest callings don’t lie out there beyond ourselves. Their roots are planted firmly in our hearts. They grow from us. Your heart, body, soul, gut and intuition are wildly intelligent. Trust them, honour them, nourish them. - 𝕁𝕀 𝕩𝕩

09/02/2022

“It is okay to slow down and take your time. There is no rush.”

Oh the amount of naps and adventures and fun I have said “no” to out of fear of falling behind in my creative work and career. The pressure I felt to heal and heal fast. The overwhelming sense of shame I have felt for my life timeline looking vastly different to others.

In a fast-paced world where the pressure to ‘keep up’ is at an all time high…being sold ways to hack our productivity and bodies so that we may live our lives ‘optimally’ and most ‘effectively’…with social media constantly serving as a feeding ground for comparison…it often feels like going at our own pace isn’t an option. But oh what a beautiful thing it is to turn inwards, to tune in with your body and nervous system, and to honour. To honour the pace you are being called to move at. Not the pace you feel you must keep up to be where you think you need to be. Our bodies are wildly intelligent. Our hearts are wildly intelligent. And what a beautiful thing it is to nourish and honour them with space and trust and rest and joy. What a beautiful thing it is to sit in reverence for your unique self and journey.

The author of ‘Atomic Habits’ James Clear, talks a lot about how consistency is way more important that intensity. With intensity, we burn out. With consistency, we grow to love the art and magic we are making. So even from a psychological, intellectual point of view - taking your time and going at your own pace and allowing yourself the space to breathe and nap and rest and keep on keeping on…is important for sustaining yourself. And from the perspective of your body, your heart, your soul, your spirit…it’s necessary.

Honour your whole self and your individuality and journey by allowing yourself the space to slow down and take your time. There is no rush. - 𝕁𝕀 𝕩𝕩

09/02/2022

Episode #18: Cultivating Compassion & Love For Younger You

"Extend the same kind of tender, warm embrace to yourself that you would a loved one. The same kind of empathy and openness and understanding. You deserve compassion. You deserve kindness. You deserve forgiveness. You deserve a big pat on the pack for your resilience, your determination, for doing the best you can with you what you know and where you are at right now and in any moment…past, present and future.”

You can stream this week’s podcast episode on Spotify and Apple Podcasts now. - 𝕁𝕀 𝕩𝕩

07/02/2022

Hi beautiful humans! I’m so happy to let you know that this week’s podcast episode is now live. Here’s a bit about today’s episode:

Episode #18: Cultivating Compassion & Love For Younger You

For so many years, I used to look back at the past and younger versions of myself and feel so much shame for the way I handled life. For all of the mistakes I had made. All of the fumbling about as I tried to navigate life in messy, awkward ways. But I am learning to see the beauty that comes in fumbling about and doing our very best. The learning and growth we experience as forever-evolving human beings. I am learning to shift my perspective and find greater compassion for younger me.

Available for streaming now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. I hope you enjoy today’s episode! - 𝕁𝕀 𝕩𝕩

06/02/2022

Sometimes my gratitude list looks like 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔; and sometimes it looks like 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 (swipe left) ✨

It’s more than often a mix of both. Gratitude is a helpful practice for grounding into the moment, finding presence, increasing awareness, boosting feelings of joy and contentment. It’s not just helpful when the list looks like sunshine and daisies. It’s helpful when we take stock of it all. Whatever feels most helpful to us in the moment. Whether that’s things that help us to thrive and face the sunshine, or things that help us to survive and make it through the day. Sometimes it can feel effortful to take stock of what we’re grateful for, sometimes it comes more naturally. It comes more naturally to some than others, but it’s helpful to consider it as a practice. Because even the things that don’t come naturally to us, are possible to practice and build habits with. Individuals who actively practice gratitude have reported greater positive emotions, better sleep, stronger immune health, and an increased capacity for compassion and kindness (both for self and others).

Gratitude has been particularly helpful for me in breaking down the stigma I felt about taking medication. At first I felt that taking anti-depressants meant that I wasn’t trying hard enough to work my emotions and thoughts out on my own. But once I accepted the help and started feeling better, and consciously reflected on my gratitude for feeling better and more able to move about my days…it was easier for me to give thanks to the little white tablets that were giving me life again. Practicing gratitude for my body has also helped me to cope with the recovery journey a little better. On the days when I was struggling to accept my changing body, I turned to focusing on gratitude for what my body allowed me to ‘do’ in the world, rather than focusing on its appearance. It’s role as an instrument for living, rather than an ornament. Gratitude has helped me to cope in the hard times, and increase feeling of aliveness and thriving in the better times.

What are you grateful for today? How has practicing gratitude helped shape you? - 𝕁𝕀 𝕩𝕩

03/02/2022

Honestly, it’s taken a long time and a lot of therapy to have the truth of this sink in for me. But despite the time its taken to see the truth, I now know it to be the truth for sure. The truth for me, the truth for you, the truth for all and everything.

I spent half of my life trying to make up for what I thought was a lack of ‘enough-ness’. Trying my hardest to ‘become more lovable and worthy’. But through my recovery journey, a lot of grieving, a lot of deep diving, a lot of tears and the darkest of days…I’ve come to know my own wholeness. I’ve come to know that I am loved and enough as I am. Not just conditionally. I’m not just loved on good days or Tuesdays or the days when I move my body or eating nutritious foods or tick off all the ‘to dos’ on the list; my enough-ness and wholeness are innate. It’s amazing how differently you navigate the world when you know this to be true. I don’t feel like I’m playing catch up constantly anymore. I don’t feel like I’m drowning in a see of pressure to perform. I am a little more free to enjoy my life. To live and love. When wholeness and enough-ness exist as my baseline, I know that my actions in the world aren’t about earning or deserving worth. I am free to dance, sing, serve, love, and leap. To live a fuller, more expansive life. I feel safer to take up more space in this world; literally and figuratively. I am enough. I am whole. I am loved as I am. You are enough. You are whole. You are loved as you are. - 𝕁𝕀 𝕩𝕩

02/02/2022

Do you know what the chances of you being born are? One in 400 trillion. And yet, here you are. You divine, beautiful, human miracle. - 𝕁𝕀 𝕩𝕩

02/02/2022

Have you listened to this week’s podcast episode? Here’s a little sneak peek quote in case you’re yet to check it out:

"I am remembering a resilience and power that lies deep in my bones…reminding me that life isn’t just unfolding on the bright, sunny days. Life is always unfolding, flourishing and blooming. Even when the flowers are wilting and the sun is hiding behind those vast, dark clouds. It is all apart of our human experience. It is all apart of the fullness of life. Here’s to feeling the fullness of life. To nourishing our beings. To playing expansive over playing small. Possibilities over probabilities. A rich, full, expansive life."

You can stream this week’s podcast episode on Spotify, Apple Podcast, or your favourite app for listening to podcasts now. New episodes available every Tuesday (AEST).- 𝕁𝕀 𝕩𝕩

31/01/2022

This week’s podcast episode is now live! Available for streaming on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite app for listening to podcasts right now.

Episode #16: Feeling the Fullness of Life

So many of the tools and techniques that helped me in my recovery journey parallel beautiful lessons in life; such as feeling our fullness. Allowing fullness in body extends to feeling fullness of life. Allowing more. Allowing expansion. Allowing adventure. Allowing growth and change. We all deserve to live rich, meaningful, expansive, full lives. To know it is possibility and to allow it to be our reality.

New episodes available every Tuesday (AEST) on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and other podcast apps. - 𝕁𝕀 𝕩𝕩

30/01/2022

“When we give ourselves compassion, we are opening our hearts in a way that can transform our lives.” - Dr. Kristin Neff

The greatest transformation in my journey of recovery and self-love has come in learning to hold myself tenderly with love and compassion. It has allowed me to open my heart to love at a deeper level, increasing my capacity for love within myself, for others and to be received from others. We are deserving of the same love and compassion we may find easy to offer others. It’s the fastest way to healing and recovery in my experience.

The more I leant into compassion, the greater my patience for myself and healing grew. The more that I could see that my struggles weren’t my fault, but a result of my conditioning and dangerous societal message and pressures. The more I leant into love, the more deserving and worthy I felt of healing; and the more safe and loved and enough I felt. I was able to let in more love from others and offer more myself; and become a more loving, compassionate human being in every way.

Offering ourselves compassion helps to crack our hearts open wide. The walls come down. And where there once were walls, love comes rushing in. Helping in our healing. Reminding us that we are loved, divine human beings. Compassion and love are magical and necessary in healing. ✨ - 𝕁𝕀 𝕩𝕩

27/01/2022

I used to only preach the former. As if I was skipping through a field of daisies 24/7. In reality, I was never high on life all the time. In solely believing that life is always meant to feel good, I would crumble on the days when things didn’t go according to plan. Any challenge I faced would be accompanied with bucket loads of feeling broken. Allowing myself to feel the full spectrum of emotions has been the greatest blessing. Allowing myself to believe that life is beautiful and messy; it’s both…has allowed me to experience a much fuller life. It’s allowed me to develop resilience and compassion for myself and others. I actually feel more hope and love in my heart allowing it all, because I allow myself to feel everything. Life keeps going on and moving forward whether it feels beautiful or messy. Life goes on and so do I.

Life is beautiful and it’s messy. And I think that’s pretty darn divine. - 𝕁𝕀 𝕩𝕩

26/01/2022

“To improve your body image, prioritise the way you experience the world, not the way the world experiences you.” - Lexie and Lindsay Kite. Founders of and authors of the incredible book ‘More Than A Body’.

Life is a very different experience when you experience it in your body, rather than from the viewpoint of others. In our bodies, we have the capacity to experience great joy and adventure. And to feel it all - including the less pleasant feeling emotions too. We can connect with other human beings. Embrace them, listen, converse, laugh until our tummies hurt. Tune into our hearts and allow them to lead the way. We allow ourselves the chance to be human and experience this beautiful, wondrous, magical, messy journey called life. But tuned into how the world may experience us? We may find ourselves looking upon ourselves and bodies critically. We objectify ourselves. We turn our bodies into something to fix, smooth out, nip, tuck and change. We limit our capacity for joy and adventure greatly. We may feel grossly disconnected from others. Shut off from the world. Yearning to run and hide our bodies away. We may begin to say ‘no’ to invitations to swim and dance and adventure with friends. And these tendencies may turn into more sinister behaviours such as disordered eating or even eating disorders. We rob ourselves of the chance to ‘be’ in our bodies. To be present. To enjoy our lives. To be at peace. To follow our hearts and dreams. The dreams of the small, innocent children we used to be. The dreams of the heart. Not the dreams that developed with age and fear…like having the perfect body. All of this and more is why I think prioritising the way you experience the world, is one of the most important and helpful techniques for improving body image (courtesy of Lexie and Lindsay Kite). If you haven’t already, I implore you to check out their incredible book, ‘More Than A Body’. I would love to see a copy of the shelves of every library and home! A world full of little children growing up prioritising their experiences in the world…what a beautiful world to live in. - 𝕁𝕀 𝕩𝕩

26/01/2022

Have you listened to this week’s podcast episode? Here’s a little sneak peek quote in case you’re yet to check it out:

"We are all such unique human beings. Varying in shape, size, colour, race, gender, sexual orientation with vastly different personalities, traits, desires and dreams. And it is through honouring our uniqueness and the truth of our hearts and souls, that we can unlock a full, expansive life. A full expansive life that isn’t possible when we spend our lives comparing ourselves to others."

You can stream this week’s podcast episode on Spotify, Apple Podcast, or your favourite app for listening to podcasts now. New episodes available every Tuesday (AEST).- 𝕁𝕀 𝕩𝕩

24/01/2022

This week’s podcast episode is now live! Available for streaming on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite app for listening to podcasts right now.

Episode #15: Honouring Your Uniqueness

“I spent years of my life comparing myself to others. Wishing to be just like them. Forgetting that there were so many things that made me beautifully, uniquely me. And that my strength lied in my uniqueness - not my ability to contort myself to fit the standards or expectations or others, or what or who I compared myself to. It’s taken me a long while, but ultimately, I am learning to honour my uniqueness.”

New episodes available every Tuesday (AEST) on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and other podcast apps. Links below. - 𝕁𝕀 𝕩𝕩

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3xtlJg02aSUrurG96pPM9D?si=db5e85cbab724620

Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/divine-by-jess-irvine/id1504541906

24/01/2022

A gentle reminder dear one: healing is not linear.

TW: mention of eating disorders, anxiety, depression & OCD

I vividly remember an appointment with my dietitian two months into my ED recovery journey. After an absolutely dreadful few months of sobbing on the living room floor daily, I was feeling good. I had begun to accept my weight gain and felt that I was free. “Is it possible to already be recovered? Am I recovery really quickly?”…the look on my dietitian’s face made it abundantly clear that I was not the first patient on the Earth to ask this question. She popped the cap off a whiteboard marker and began to draw a long line on the whiteboard. “You feel amazing, because this is where you started (pointing to the far left side of the line)…and right now you’re sitting here…(pointing to a spot 1/3 of the way along the line). You’re doing so well, you’ve come so far…but you don’t even know yet how much more free you can feel. How life gets even better.” Between that moment a four months ago and now…I’ve realised how right she was. But also how squiggly that line of recovery is. Recovery has had it’s huge lows and highs. Mostly lows to be honest. Since that moment in her office when I thought I was recovered and feeling the bestest I ever had and that nothing could bring me down…I started taking anti-depressants to help ease anxiety, depression and OCD…in a bid to help further my recovery. I have had hundreds more of those living room guttural crying helpless moments. But I have also experienced moments of pure bliss and freedom too. Moments that never would have been possible prior to starting my recovery journey.

Healing is not linear. Recovery is not linear. Life itself is dynamic and changeable and wobbly and messy and beautiful and far from linear.

Don’t beat yourself up if on your journey of healing, recovery or life in general…you find yourself riding an unpredictable wave of emotions and experiences and challenges. You are human. It is all apart of totality of healing and life. All apart of the spectrum of emotions and living and growing. Healing is not linear. It was never meant to be. Have bucket loads of compassion and love for yourself wherever you find yourself on this non-linear ride today beautiful human miracle. 𝕁𝕀 𝕩𝕩

24/01/2022

“When I know that I am safe, I am loved, and I am enough; when I know that I am whole as I am - what calls my heart?”

This has been on repeat as a mantra for me for the last little while. The more free that I feel…the more that I release my eating disorder behaviours and beliefs…the more in tune I feel with the truth of my heart. It was so easy to dismiss my dreams and desires when I was in the thick of EDs and even in the thick of recovery. When I was living a limited range of life, it was harder to hear my heart. Easier to drown out the sound of my heart and soul with the sound of fears and behaviours that weren’t in the best interest of my wellbeing. When I struggled to come to terms with weight gain in recovery, I was quick to decide that singing and performing weren’t for me anymore. I didn’t feel safe in the discomfort of change. I didn’t want to be seen. What would people think of me? What would my family think? Years and years of conditioning led me to believe that I was less lovable and didn’t deserve to live my dreams or be seen. But leaning into love and developing healthier forms of comfort and coping and allowing myself to sit with all of my emotions and affirm my wholeness throughout it all (with the help of incredible therapists and professionals too)…helped me to get back in tune with my heart. And in the arms of love, the truth comes flooding in. I love to sing. I love to perform. I love to write. I love to express. I love to share. I love to adventure. I love to live a full, expansive life. In my enough-ness and wholeness, I hear the truth and I know it’s safe to lean in. So I ask myself as much as possible now: when I know that I am safe, I am loved, and I am enough; when I know that I am whole as I am - what calls my heart? - 𝕁𝕀 𝕩𝕩

24/01/2022

Healing is possible. Recovery is possible.

TW: Mention of eating disorders, anxiety & depression

In July 2021, I began my recovery journey in a bid to heal from a decade long struggle with eating disorders. I didn’t think healing or recovery was possible, but I did know that I needed help. I thought I would be burdened with the struggles and pain for the rest of my life. But 6 months after embarking on this journey, I now know that healing is possible. Recovery is possible. It has been a turbulent journey but I am healing. I am recovering. Seeking professional treatment was the best thing I ever did. With every psychology or dietitian session, I have been reminded that I am worthy of healing. I am worthy of recovery. Most importantly, I am worthy of living an expansive, full life. I have been given the tools and support I need to heal and recover. And while definitely not a linear journey, I do believe that recovery is possible. At least from eating disorders. I may struggle with bad bouts of anxiety and depression for the rest of my life, and have things trigger me in relation to my ED struggles…but I know that I have the tools I need to support myself. I know that help is available. I now know that there is no shame in needing medication to support my mental health. After all, it saved my life.

You are worthy of healing. You are worthy of recovery. Healing is possible. Recovery is possible. Help is available. A full, expansive life is possible. It’s all possible, I promise. I’ve seen the proof now to know it’s true. - 𝕁𝕀 𝕩𝕩

P.S. For immediate mental health and crisis support, please contact Lifeline on 13 11 14.
For anything eating disorder or body image related, please contact The Butterfly Foundation on 1800 33 4673.

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