This made me cry, I’m nearly speechless trying to comment. You told your story so beautifully and eloquently… I can relate so much after years of treatment for ED… and felt the same experience in the desert. Wow wow wow. I want to quote the whole piece. Beautiful, thank you so much for sharing.
Awh! Thank you for this feedback Em. This was one of those vulnerable shares that I was really hesitant to hit publish. I had a lot of fear around it ..so hearing this feedback is very reassuring for me. I’m so glad this resonated with you and hit you the way it did! I was hoping to reach other women that have gone through similar experiences. Thank you so much for sharing and resonating with it. 🥲🙏💓
Absolutely brilliant Olivia and really vulnerable to open up. Sometimes all that fantastic awareness may not help emotionally but enough to keep you from relapsing to a place where functioning is hard and the numbing of all your beauty inside and out, not to mention intelligence. It's important to write these things and you have come so far...to go back would mean it harder to ever get back to the life you live. Thank you for sharing all this 💖💖
Willow, your words of encouragement, mean the world, I know you have lived it. And you understand the insanity from the inside out. Thank you for reflecting to me ways in which I’ve come far because it still feels like it holds me back so much. But you’re right if I were to continue let it run me it would run me into the ground and keep me from the progress that I’ve made. I appreciate your words and insight and time you take to read. 💓🙏
Of course, I love your words! You're doing so well Olivia and it isnt always easy at all and we always have to be mindful of not letting things get out of hand 🩵
You’re so sweet Willow! Thank you 🥲 it’s so true it’s so easy for it to get out of hand and be a slippery slope. It definitely is not always easy! Thank you for the share and the care ❤️🩹🙏
There is so much I identify with in your words Olivia, the vulnerability, the rawness, criticising ourselves or feeling we're not good enough when rationally, we know we are, and the wound embedded in our society which inflicts itself upon us too. I have been there and found your words deeply moving. Thank you too for calling out the charade that is the 'wellness' industry. ❤️
Thank you, Kate! Yes, I feel like it’s A collective wounding that is in wellness industry, specifically almost like the epicenter of it! I’m glad these words resonated with you. And it is How we intellectualize things and still our body experiences it differently. Thank you so much for reading! ❤️🩹🙏
I love the cactus flowers, the desert metaphor, and the glimpse inside of your mind. Anyone can talk about life or an environment. The thoughts inside your head, that's where the gold is, the desert adventure is a bonus. When you communicate your thoughts just right, in an open and tender way, they connect with someone else who's had those thoughts, and now they feel a little less alone and a little more connected.
This made me cry, I’m nearly speechless trying to comment. You told your story so beautifully and eloquently… I can relate so much after years of treatment for ED… and felt the same experience in the desert. Wow wow wow. I want to quote the whole piece. Beautiful, thank you so much for sharing.
Awh! Thank you for this feedback Em. This was one of those vulnerable shares that I was really hesitant to hit publish. I had a lot of fear around it ..so hearing this feedback is very reassuring for me. I’m so glad this resonated with you and hit you the way it did! I was hoping to reach other women that have gone through similar experiences. Thank you so much for sharing and resonating with it. 🥲🙏💓
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Absolutely brilliant Olivia and really vulnerable to open up. Sometimes all that fantastic awareness may not help emotionally but enough to keep you from relapsing to a place where functioning is hard and the numbing of all your beauty inside and out, not to mention intelligence. It's important to write these things and you have come so far...to go back would mean it harder to ever get back to the life you live. Thank you for sharing all this 💖💖
Willow, your words of encouragement, mean the world, I know you have lived it. And you understand the insanity from the inside out. Thank you for reflecting to me ways in which I’ve come far because it still feels like it holds me back so much. But you’re right if I were to continue let it run me it would run me into the ground and keep me from the progress that I’ve made. I appreciate your words and insight and time you take to read. 💓🙏
Of course, I love your words! You're doing so well Olivia and it isnt always easy at all and we always have to be mindful of not letting things get out of hand 🩵
You’re so sweet Willow! Thank you 🥲 it’s so true it’s so easy for it to get out of hand and be a slippery slope. It definitely is not always easy! Thank you for the share and the care ❤️🩹🙏
You too lovely Olivia 🥰
There is so much I identify with in your words Olivia, the vulnerability, the rawness, criticising ourselves or feeling we're not good enough when rationally, we know we are, and the wound embedded in our society which inflicts itself upon us too. I have been there and found your words deeply moving. Thank you too for calling out the charade that is the 'wellness' industry. ❤️
Thank you, Kate! Yes, I feel like it’s A collective wounding that is in wellness industry, specifically almost like the epicenter of it! I’m glad these words resonated with you. And it is How we intellectualize things and still our body experiences it differently. Thank you so much for reading! ❤️🩹🙏
I love the cactus flowers, the desert metaphor, and the glimpse inside of your mind. Anyone can talk about life or an environment. The thoughts inside your head, that's where the gold is, the desert adventure is a bonus. When you communicate your thoughts just right, in an open and tender way, they connect with someone else who's had those thoughts, and now they feel a little less alone and a little more connected.