Recovery Tip: I like to used stamped spoons sometimes. I bought some off of Etsy and you’d be surprised how motivating it is getting to use a cute little spoon that says “love yourself” or “your eating disorder Is lying to you.” It just makes recovery and the whole situation of eating a little brighter.
I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of this concept but my Mom talks about it sometimes. In a day we have ten spoons, something like doing your homework, making a blog post, or cleaning your room would take a spoon. Maybe for the average person going to the store would take one spoon. At the beginning of the day we can chose to use our spoons however we’d like. For someone in recovery however, the simple things seem to take more spoons than the average person. I can not tell you how exhausting recovery is in the first year or two. I don’t even only mean emotionally.
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