It's Saturday Morning🌻 Take A Breath...

If you're reading this first thing on a Saturday morning, I want you to pause for a moment... take a breath, unclench your jaw, drop your shoulders and put both feet on the floor.

You've made it to another morning, I know weekends can feel difficult in recovery. I get it, the lack of routine, the social plans, the meal outs, the family gatherings and all the extra free time. Anxiety that seems to get louder when life slows down.

Sometimes it feels like you've barely opened your eyes and your eating disorder is already trying to plan your day for you, telling you what you'll eat, what you'll wear, how you'll cope and how you'll get through the day. Before any of that happens I want to remind you of something. You don't need to earn your breakfast today, you don't need to earn lunch today and you don't need to earn your tea.

Recovery can make ordinary days feel tiring, sometimes you're not only carrying the weight of your life but you're carrying a constant battle inside your head. It's a battle nobody else can see, a battle that tells you day and day you're not doing enough. Recovery was never meant to be perfect, it's actually messy and uncomfortable. Recovery is constantly choosing yourself even when your eating disorder would rather be selfish and make you chose it.

Maybe recovery today could look like eating breakfast without negotiating with your eating disorder? or maybe challenging a fear food? or maybe even meeting a friend for a coffee date?

Whatever recovery looks like for you today, it matters so damn much. The small steps matter. So before you continue with your Saturday, I want you to ask yourself this one question, "What is one kind thing I can do for myself today?" not for anyone else, just for you.

Recovery isn't about healing your relationship with food, it's about healing your relationship with yourself.

Please try to be kind to yourself this weekend, I will be back tomorrow with another blog.

With Love, Niomi 🤎

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