There is a moment where you aren’t holding on to anything. That’s the scary part, taking that leap. I used to say that I wasn’t “sick enough” to recover. However, I have learned that at any stage of an eating disorder, you deserve recovery. You are worth it. You are enough.

This Brave Body: A Survival Story

I see the body I have deprived and depleted and poisoned and starved. This brave body that has never left me.

I can recall doing each of those things in the name of health, and with the hope that I might finally find a way to belong. And when each of those things failed me, I walked myself right up to the edge of this life and peered over the side. I discovered what it means to want to die in one breath, but pray to be saved in the next.

And I am still here.

Sarah StevensFebruary 24, 2019body positivity, eating disorder awareness, fat positivity

The Makings of a Manifesto: Fat Women, Skinny Girls and a Chorus of Courage

"Leave your pain here. Now go out and do your magnificent things." This was an invitation uttered by Judge Rosemarie Aquilina to the survivors in that courtroom. This is also my invitation to you. Because the beautiful things belong to you. You were most certainly made for the magnificent.