Sentimental Endangerment

1) http://eatingdisorderrecovery.com/index.php/home - Features a free eating disorder recovery workbook that helps you manage eating disorder symptoms. Includes blogs to help inspire eating disorder recovery. Allows visitors to post and discuss problems and questions in a forum that is monitored.

2) http://www.recoveryboat.com/ - A website that offers peer support for eating disorder recovery. This site includes a forum for those struggling. It also provides basic information about eating disorders for those suffering and those supporting a loved one who is suffering. Lastly, it provides some therapy exercises that can help overcome eating disorder behaviours and symptoms.

3)      http://www.something-fishy.org/ - An all exclusive website that provides a treatment finder, forums, eating disorder information, hotlines, and more. This site even includes resources for books and self-help worksheets to help combat eating disorder symptoms and behaviours.

4) http://www.webiteback.com/ - A pro-recovery website that exists to help others overcome their eating disorder and to combat pro-ana websites. This site provides a forum for users to post on to get advice and share struggles of their eating disorder. This site also provides an extensive resource list for those struggling.

5)  http://www.nedic.ca/index.shtml – The National Eating Disorder Information Centre. This website features all you need to know about eating disorders. It has a resource library that includes links on where to get help. NEDIC runs public service announcements and campaigns that you can get involved with in your own community.

6) http://www.eatingdisordersblogs.com/ - This site is a compilation of blogs written by different people to help inspire you to overcome your eating disorder. You can find blogs written by Doris Smeltzer, Karen Koenig, and even Jenni Schaefer. These blogs provide information on eating disorders, skills you can use to recover, and resources you can access.

7) http://www.mirror-mirror.org/ - This is a site dedicated to help promote awareness for eating disorders. It helps to educate about the dangers of eating disorders. It also has links to resources on getting support for your eating disorder. It provides information on relapses and has a relapse prevention plan. It gives a lot of ideas on coping skills to deal with the hard emotions you feel instead of using eating disorder symptoms.

8) http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/ - This website is dedicated to advocacy for eating disorder recovery. It provides resources to help teach about what eating disorders really look like. This site provides resources for recovery as well. This is the organization that holds the National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, held at the end of February. This site provides stories of hope that encourages others to seek out recovery.

9) http://eatingdisorderscoalition.org/ - Advocacy at its best! This site is your guide to help get legislators and representatives to hear your voice and get legal action for eating disorder help and recovery. You can find facts and information about eating disorders on this site. You can learn how you can advocate and lobby for eating disorder recovery at the federal and state level.

May your January be filled with love and healing. 

- you don't have to earn/make up for any food, no matter how much, no matter what it is, in any way at all. Not today, not any of the days following.

- you are allowed to distance yourself from family/friends if they are being toxic or triggering or just uncomfortable (if you're doing a zoom call with your relatives, just press mute!)

- your loved ones are just as susceptible to diet culture as you are and their diets/comments/projections of their insecurities don't mean you need to engage in unhealthy behavior yourself.

- eyes on your own plate. How much/how fast/what other people are eating is none of your business. You don't need to eat less or slower than others, and you don't need to monitor what they are eating either.

- it's normal to eat more than you usually would during holidays. Theres no reason to feel guilty if you find yourself more full afterwards than normal.

- you still need to eat tomorrow. And the day after. And the day after that. No matter how much you eat today, your body still needs food tomorrow.

- if you mess up, if you engage in unhealthy behavior relapse in some way, please be gentle with yourself. You are only human and you can't expect to do perfectly all the time.

- if you need support, reach out. You aren't ruining anyone's holiday, you don't have to struggle alone.