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#1

“You don't have to preserve your pain in order to prove that it was real.”
― Brittany Burgunder

tags: addiction-recovery, eating-disorder-recovery, grief-and-healing, healing-from-the-past, mental-health-quotes, pain-quotes, recovery-quotes, trauma-healing, trauma-quotes, validation-quote

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#2

“For me, recovery from recovery was probably the most confusing time – the most lonely, frustrating and psychologically challenging time. It did not feel heroic and it was also incredibly tedious.”
― Evanna Lynch, The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up

tags: eating-disorder-recovery, mental-health

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#3

“Not all battles are visible and neither are the victories.”
― Brittany Burgunder

tags: eating-disorder-awareness, eating-disorder-quote, eating-disorder-recovery, eating-disorders, invisible-illness, mental-health, mental-health-awareness, mental-health-quotes, mental-health-stigma, mental-illness-quotes

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#4

“At times I'd felt courageous on the journey, but it was borrowed courage. Now we were here, and neither of us had a plan. Was she going to abandon me, leave me stranded in my body? I'd be in exile with a stomach that demanded more of everything.”
― Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

tags: abandonment, eating-disorder-recovery, heartbreak, lesbian, loneliness, recovery

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#5

“There is a type of courage that cannot always be seen. It's a bravery that you have to choose for yourself. You use it in the little, seemingly insignificant choices and decisions you make each day. Keep making these tiny, good choices over and over until you realize your whole life is different and the hero who saved you is yourself.”
― Brittany Burgunder

tags: be-the-hero, brave-quotes, choice-quotes, eating-disorder-quote, eating-disorder-recovery, mental-health-recovery, recovery-inspiration, recovery-quotes, save-yourself

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#6

“Sometimes when you are feeling lonely, desperate and submerged, you think you're drowning, but you can actually begin to grow water wings, because now is your time to learn to swim.”
― Kate Hudson-Hall, Bulimia Sucks!: 10 Simple Steps to Stop Bingeing and Purging

tags: bulimia-help, bulimia-recovery, eating-disorder-quote, eating-disorder-recovery, inspirational, self-improvement

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#7

“Eating disorders are insidious and subtly manipulative. The behaviors that initially feel like relief are the same ones that will eventually ruin you.”
― Brittany Burgunder

tags: anorexia-recovery, binge-eating-disorder, bulimia-recovery, eating-disorder, eating-disorder-awareness, eating-disorder-quote, eating-disorder-recovery, eating-disorders, mental-health-quotes, recovery-quotes

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#8

“If you hold on to any part of your eating disorder, you are always one step away from a relapse.”
― Brittany Burgunder

tags: eating-disorder-awareness, eating-disorder-quote, eating-disorder-recovery, eating-disorders, mental-health-quotes, mental-health-recovery, recovery-inspiration, recovery-quotes, relapse, relapse-prevention

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