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NEDA Awareness Week 2021

✨Photographs of myself. Photographs of my mind. Photographs of an affliction that's impossible to capture. It's National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. It's one of the weeks I'm most proud to celebrate. And it's also a week I wish I knew nothing about. But turning a blind eye is what prolonged…

Posted on February 22, 2021 by brittanyburgunder by brittanyburgunder

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How I Recovered

⋅ How did I recover? There was never one thing, one person, or one defining moment I can recall that I can credit for my recovery. Rather, there are a myriad of factors that influenced me. ⋅ 1.) THERAPY: I cannot stress enough how important this has been for me.…

Posted on February 8, 2021 by brittanyburgunder by brittanyburgunder

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When Food Rules Your Life

⋅ 🍴It started so innocently for me. I just wanted to eat a-little-bit-healthier. I started asking my mom to pack me fruit instead of cookies in my school lunch box. ⋅ In middle school I went to a tennis camp. We were competitive athletes —carbs were essential to our performance.…

Posted on February 1, 2021 by brittanyburgunder by brittanyburgunder

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Defining An Eating Disorder

⋅ ⚖️Most of my life I didn’t believe I had an eating disorder because I never thought my weight was low enough. Of course, this is what my eating disorder told me, and therefore thin enough didn’t exist. Because ... ⋅ 🚫EATING DISORDERS ARE NOT ABOUT WEIGHT🚫 ⋅ I engaged…

Posted on January 18, 2021 by brittanyburgunder by brittanyburgunder

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#DietCultureSucks

⋅ 🙄Oh ... and don’t forget to take care of your mental health too! What breaks my heart the most about this is the fact that it’s true. I laugh because this post sums up a dark reality that I and many others have lived —sacrificing our wellbeing for the…

Posted on November 3, 2020November 3, 2020 by brittanyburgunder by brittanyburgunder

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Accepting My Reflection

⋅ I’d rather omit the right photo, but the issue is that’s what I look like 95% of the time! That’s normal! We all have rolls when we sit down, and yet, somehow that’s something to hide. ⋅ It’s taken me a long time to feel comfortable in my skin,…

Posted on May 26, 2020 by brittanyburgunder by brittanyburgunder

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#NEDAwareness Week 2020

💚#NEDAwareness Week ||"Come As You Are: Hindsight is 2020"💙 “Come As You Are: Hindsight is 2020” Eating disorders look like you and me. They look like your classmates, coworkers and neighbor next door. They look like that person who’s always smiling. They look like that person who’s very quiet.…

Posted on February 25, 2020 by brittanyburgunder by brittanyburgunder

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CHOICES

🌀CHOICES There are many things in life that are not our choice, nor are they in our control. It’s easy when you feel out of control to try to grasp onto something that brings familiarity. What if you grasp onto a false sense of control? What if you’re holding on…

Posted on August 7, 2018 by brittanyburgunder by brittanyburgunder

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Are You “Happy” or Happy?

🎭 I was H A P P Y ... Because my "happy" in the past persuaded me to believe life was as good as it was going to get. I could not see that my "happy" actually ranked about a 1 on a scale of 100. So I kept…

Posted on June 1, 2018 by brittanyburgunder by brittanyburgunder

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Do You See What I See? | #NEDAwareness 2018

⋅ 💚💙What do you “see” when you look at this photo? ⋅ Let me tell you what I see... I see a girl with low self-esteem, a girl who’s lonely and never feels good enough. I see anxiety -fear, doubt, paralysis, suffocation. I see depression -isolation, turmoil, defeat,…