Sitting At Rock Bottom
Rock Bottom : the point of being at your very lowest. While it is a myth that recovery only occurs once rock bottom has been reached, for...
ED Recovery in Marriage
I thought it might be interesting to briefly discuss the relationship between eating disorders & marriage. For those of you who may be newer to my site, I was diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa 6 years ago and have been on a recovery journey ever since. Throughout these years I have suffered many relapses but also found much growth as step by step I slowly embraced this new life I was given. In 2020 I began dating Micah Hastings and by last July we were happily married. While ma
Never Thin Enough
“You aren’t thin enough.” I snuck past my sleeping parents into their bathroom which contained the only scale in the house. These next...
The - Not So Linear - Recovery Journey
My eyes fly open. I quickly assess my situation: the edge of the cliff fading above, the end of my fall lost in the fog below....
Lessons Of A PA-S Turned PA-C
PA school... 27 months of lectures, labs, simulations, learning 85 didactic exams 11 clinical rotations 7 EOR exams 73,782 patients...
Success
Dedicated to Shari, the most joyful soul I had the pleasure of knowing It is November, and I am nearing the end of my second and final year of PA school. And, to be honest, more than joy I feel relief. These past two years I have pushed myself to the breaking point and have finally reached burnout. For those of you who don’t know, burnout is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. It is characterized by thr
