The National Eating Disorder Awareness Week: Courage

 

This week, February 21^st through the 27^th, 2022 is the National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. It’s a week that focuses on information about image and the factors that drive disordered eating and appearance issues.

With that being said, let’s also briefly examine the wonderful attributes that make us up, attributes that extend beyond physical appearance. We are more than what we easily see.

We are/have…

…Courage

To survive the things we have survived, eating disorders included, to face life with hope and strength, despite so many circumstances that tell us otherwise, requires courage. 

Courage, however, like this image here, doesn’t always possess the lion’s roar.

Sometimes, it’s quiet, seemingly, nonexistent, in nature. But it is, nevertheless, there.

We have it. Our breath is courageous. Our decisions, large and small, loud and quiet, are courageous. We have believed far too many lies, including those of disordered eating and image. Let’s start believing the truth.

We have courage.