Anorexia
November 09, 2006
Julianna, the author of one of the blogs I read, recently wrote a raw and beautiful entry about her struggle with anorexia. While the feelings are something she will likely battle the rest of her life (the same feelings with which many of us still struggle), she is at a point in her life in which she can say that she's no longer at war with the physical (food) side of anorexia.
I'm so proud of her accomplishment, and for her courage to speak out about an eating disorder that has ravaged the lives of so many women.
Julianna is an American bioarcheologist, who is currently separated (by the government) from her Jordanian husband, who is also a bioarchelogogist. She's in the process of telling the story (on her site) of how they met and began their relationship at an excavation site in Jordan.
It's good for the romantic in me.


Comments
Awwwww! Yeah, I'm so glad you got my post :) That it's not all about the food. there is something more, something deeper that we all struggle with-- image perception.
I'll post more of my story tonight when I come home from work!
Posted by: julianna | November 9, 2006 12:35 PM
You're right about that - we all struggle with image perception to some degree. While reading through wikipedia's definition of anorexia, it made me wonder whether I'M anorexic.
Except: your size 2 jeans? wouldn't fit past my knee.
Posted by: jes | November 9, 2006 03:36 PM
I'm off to read it right now. As a recovering anorexic myself I sometimes need a little inspiration to keep me on the right track.
Thanks Chirky.
Posted by: Jenny | November 10, 2006 07:22 AM
I haven't posted it yet, but mine is coming. I still am struggling, though, because it's back.
Posted by: Jurgen Nation | November 13, 2006 12:02 PM