By Starr Wisniewski, The Meadows Ranch Alum, 2016
I became pretty sick in June of 2015. After a year of seeing one doctor, specialist and even a natural doctor, no one could tell me what was wrong with me.
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By Natalie Packer, 2005 The Meadows Ranch Alumna
I did not love my body when I stepped foot out of a plane in the desert, en route to The Meadows Ranch in Wickenburg, Arizona. Nor did I love my body when I was transported to a hospital to prepare for insertion of a nasogastric feeding tube. I did not love my body as I watched my friends head out for equine therapy on horseback while I stayed behind with my brittle bones to chat and stroke Levi.
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There often comes a point in a woman’s journey through eating disorder recovery, when she begins to see her body in a different light. Instead of hating it for its “flaws” and trying to punish it into perfection, she begins to appreciate it for all of the things it can do and all of the places it carries her.
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Every single day, she battles her disease — there is no respite.
Because she is severely malnourished, she does not think clearly, her thoughts are disordered and her perceptions are skewed. Positive self -esteem is non-existent.
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These pressures are leading many students to make dangerous trade-offs when it comes to alcohol and food. In a recent study, more than 80 percent of college students reported that they skipped meals, binged on food and purged, or used a laxative, so that they could “save calories” and binge drink without gaining weight and/or […]