{"quotes":[{"text":"If you put the wrong foods in your body, you are contaminated and dirty and your stomach swells. Then the voice says, Why did you do that? Don't you know better? Ugly and wicked, you are disgusting to me.","author":"Bethany Pierce","tags":["anorexia","anorexic","bulimia","bulimic","depression","eating-disorder","eating-disorders","ed","mental-illness","ocd"],"id":2326,"author_id":"Bethany+Pierce"},{"text":"Find YOUR Balance.","author":"Kayla Rose Kotecki","tags":["anorexia","bikini-competitions","bikini-contest","bingeing","body-image","body-positive","bodybuilding","bulimia","clean-eating","cleansing","detox","dieting","diets-don-t-work","eat-clean","eating-clean","eating-disorder-recovery","eating-disorders","fasting","food-freedom","fruitarian","mental-health","non-fiction","orthorexia","purging","raw-food","raw-vegan","starvation"],"id":4570,"author_id":"Kayla+Rose+Kotecki"},{"text":"There ARE people who won't customarily eat an entire row of cookies, or hear food calling their name from other rooms, or who don't grind up food in the garbage disposal for fear of eating it, or get it back out of the garbage so they could eat it. Of course, my binge eating was just a cover-up for the larger issue: Trying to fill the emptiness.","author":"S.A.R.K.","tags":["binge-eating","eating-disorders","feeling-empty","humor","inspirational","psychology","self-help"],"id":5681,"author_id":"S.A.R.K."},{"text":"Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.","author":"Naomi Wolf","tags":["appearance","beauty","body-image","eating-disorders","self-esteem","society"],"id":9685,"author_id":"Naomi+Wolf"},{"text":"The only way to move forward is to focus on the good in your life and the good that you are doing for others and yourself. My past has shown me things in life, others and myself that I wouldn't wish upon anyone, but I can choose to pick up the pieces and build a beautiful life for myself and help others to do the same.","author":"Brittany Burgunder","tags":["beautiful-life","biography","brittany-burgunder","eating-disorder","eating-disorders","inspirational","life-lessons","memoir","motivational","recovery"],"id":16051,"author_id":"Brittany+Burgunder"},{"text":"No. Absolutely not. I forbid it. You'll have nightmares.' 'She was my friend! You must allow me. Why are you so horrid?' As soon as the angry words were out of my mouth, I knew I had gone too far. 'Matilda!' Mother rose from her chair. 'You are forbidden to pseak to me in that tone! Apologize at once.","author":"Laurie Halse Anderson","tags":["eating-disorders","parents","teenagers"],"id":20029,"author_id":"Laurie+Halse+Anderson"},{"text":"There’s a weight in the room now, a remembrance of childhood. It sinks like a stone, or a heart, or my weight on a good day.","author":"Kris Kidd","tags":["childhood-trauma","depression","eating-disorders"],"id":25225,"author_id":"Kris+Kidd"},{"text":"To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men's sexual--and hence social--confidence while undermining that of women.","author":"Naomi Wolf","tags":["advertising","beauty","eating-disorders","feminism","self-esteem","society"],"id":30507,"author_id":"Naomi+Wolf"},{"text":"Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images.","author":"Cheri K. Erdman","tags":["body-image","culture","diet-industry","diets","eating-disorders","self-esteem","society","weight"],"id":36557,"author_id":"Cheri+K.+Erdman"},{"text":"So many stories lived behind my eyes. I carried the people I hurt, the lies I told, my sick relationship with food, wherever I went. My mind was rarely grounded in the moment. My past was heavy and constant; my thoughts wouldn’t leave me alone. But when I was with the shelter dogs, I didn’t have anything to hide. Sometimes what existed behind my eyes fell away. I wasn’t bulimic or unlovable or fat or a liar. I was a part of life again. I was an observer, and to more than just the dark cyclical patterns of the mind—here was the strong, sturdy presence of another—the breath moving in and out of Angel’s chest, the beating of her heart, the force of life moving through her and through me.","author":"Shannon Kopp","tags":["angel","animals","bulimia","dogs","eating-disorders","freedom","inspirational","recovery","shelter-dogs","truth"],"id":42675,"author_id":"Shannon+Kopp"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":97,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}