March 26 I got a loser letter today…. my Very Good Book on How To Write assures me that I should make friends with my rejection letters as I will see a lot of them, therefore developing a ‘coping strategy’ is vital. To that I say “What the * ever.” Ironically, of course, this is […]
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I am just being reassessed for my sexual abuse counselling funding as we speak, which I find quite difficult to deal with (no counselor in the mean-time.) New Zealand has an interesting system to say the least. ACC funds most ‘accidental injury’ rehabilitation. This includes ‘mental injury’ suffered through sex abuse – in other words, […]
March 14 Today I am tired, grumpy, and I know I’m not going to be able to say no to chocolate. I know why I’m doing it. Not very long ago I had a big shake up in my social group; I’m still not sure exactly what went awry and I imagine a few other […]
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One of the things about having an eating disorder (and I’ve had a go at most of ’em, more on that later) that I find mentioned a lot in books, a thing that resonates with me, is the concept that the Disease – anorexia, bulimia, whatever – has it’s own voice. This voice, for me, […]
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This is a blog I think a lot of people might misunderstand as being just, well, negative. Its not meant to be. Yes it deals with a negative subject – how much my 38 yr old life has been sadly derailed by eating disorders and body image issues – but I’m not writing this just […]
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