A true inspiration

Over a month ago, I was contacted by a girl called Laura who wanted some advice about how to keep moving forward in her recovery. To begin with I was really worried about her as I could see how much she was struggling and didn't know if I would be able to help her. I gave her as much advice as I could but I knew that she would have to fight with everything she had in order to get through her difficulut situation and that is exactly what she did.

Over the last month Laura has shown so much bravery and strength and her recovery attitute has been completely transformed. Laura and I email one another everyday but I no longer only give her advice, but she gives me advice too. With Lauras permission, I want to share some advice that she emailed to me as I think it is such an important message that everyone should read. I certainly intend to keep thinking about recovery in the way that Laura has suggested. She said;

It is so hard to keep going, when everything is telling me to restrict, to loose a few lbs, however I know that this won't solve my problems, and I will only struggle more, as my body is not happy being a lower weight and I don't function as well. At the moment, my thought process is 'right now, I am able to live without thinking about food all the time, I want to socialise more, I am more comfortable around food, and I have energy to work and live my life, so if a higher BMI/weight is the price that I have to pay for that then so what.' It's not easy, but this type of thinking helps. I also find that I am less irritable and more positive and friendly like this, so that makes me happy and want to fight further. Keeping all these things in mind defiantly helps, so maybe you could do the same to help you adjust to your body now? Just a thought!    

I find it unbelievable that this advice was written by the same person who contacted me just over a month ago with no idea how she could fight her anorexia. Even though it felt impossible she did it anyway which is exactly what everyone needs to do in order to recover. To all of those out there trying to recover but who feel as though recovery is too hard, be inspired by Laura. She is fighting her anorexia every day and is doing exactly what she needs to do in order to recover and you can too.

I am so incredibely proud of Laura for how far she has come in her recovery and have no doubt in my mind that she is going to beat her anorexia. I will never be able to thank Laura enough for her ongoing support and guidence and hope that we stay in touch well into the future.