On a dark January evening, I found a yellow sticky note that I’d completely forgotten about in my coat pocket. On the front were three words: yoga, write, read. I needed this reminder to slow down and make space for these nourishing activities. Now I just had to believe I was deserving of taking the time to do them. Here I share some of the steps I took to build trust within myself that I was, in fact, deserving to make and take space for those people, places, and things that are important to me.

Learn how to let go of extremes and practice the yoga philosophy brahmacharya, or moderation in your eating disorder recovery. Enjoy reflection prompts and guided meditations on cultivating balance in your healing journey.

Learn how to focus on sincere effort rather than perfection in your recovery. Enjoy reflection prompts, a yoga practice, and guided meditations on cultivating sincere effort in your healing journey.

Guest contributor Veronique van Dam shares how yoga led her to find her passion and taught her how to care for herself throughout her recovery from an eating disorder and beyond.

Learn how to practice the yoga philosophy of santosha, or contentment, in eating disorder recovery. Read how two women apply this concept in their own recoveries. Plus, explore the reflection prompts and enjoy a yoga practice and two guided meditations on contentment to help you bring santosha into your life.

Guest contributor Julia Manson Cheng discovered yoga during pregnancy, and soon it became one of the most helpful tools for her eating disorder recovery. Read Julia’s story of witnessing her “real self” emerge as her yoga practice deepened.

Learn how to practice the yoga philosophy of aparigraha in eating disorder recovery. Explore the reflection prompts and enjoy two guided meditations on appreciation and abundance to help you bring aparigraha into your life.

“Feeding myself well and exercising in a balanced way is a form of mothering myself, self-care, and an act of radical self-love.” Read guest contributor Lisa Young’s moving account of her eating disorder struggle and recovery during pregancy and postpartum. Lisa vividly shares how these times in a woman’s life can be a powerful wake up call to embrace the practices of body acceptance and self-love.

“If I had the perfect body, no one could say hurtful things to me or make me feel less than. You told me I needed to lose weight to receive love and attention.” In her goodbye letter to ED, guest contributor Allison Mann shares how, after years of struggle, finally saying goodbye to ED allowed her to discover her true self.