Louise: Ready to feel alive
It’s been a few weeks since we released a bonus episode from Louise about being hospitalized for anorexia and contracting COVID-19 in the hospital. Now, she’s home, healing, and determined to take steps toward recovering from her eating disorder and letting her true self shine through.
"I just want to feel alive. Figure out who I am. [I've] been choked down by an eating disorder for a really long time." - Louise
It's been a few weeks since we released a bonus episode from Louise about being hospitalized for anorexia and contracting COVID-19 in the hospital. Now, she's home, healing, and determined to take steps toward recovering from her eating disorder and letting her true self shine through.
Listen for:
- How much stronger and clearer Louise sounds since her last check-in with Hillary.
- How Louise describes the eating disorder as a role she plays, or a part of herself that is preoccupied with food restriction, and how getting away from that role is allowing her to experience the other life-seeking parts of herself.
- Relapse is part of recovery. Hillary tries to lighten Louise's worries over relapse because all that pressure increases the risk of relapse.
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