Incarnations of Ourselves AND the Throwing Up Rainbows Recovery Guide By Z Zoccolante How do we mark incarnations of ourselves? Trees hold time with their rings. Oceans rise and fall, the skies swivel different season of stars. We all have scars, seen or unseen, that mark how we’ve traversed through the world. Things we’ve collected. Memories of things we’ve let go. Some of us have childhood friends, the ones who linger,...
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What It Feels Like to Stay By Z Zoccolante Geneen Roth, one of my favorite writers on women and our bodies wrote, “We intuitively understand that we want something we cannot see or touch but we don’t know how to name or access it. And so, we fall back into believing that being thinner will right everything that is wrong. The only problem with that is that it is based on a lie.” – Geneen Roth I remember this period of my...
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The Thing We Take For Granted By Z Zoccolante Sometimes we only appreciate things when they’re gone. Take health for example. If we feel relatively fine then our minds tend to get caught up with other daily tasks. If, on the other hand, we’re sick, none of those other things seem to matter much. Of course, they still stress us out because them loom before us on our to do list. But the truth is that most of us would live...
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Healthy Habits for Individuals in Recovery Guest Post by Molly Anderson Substance addiction has many treatments, but no matter how you choose to find a sober path, it’s important to remember that finding healthy habits — and creating healthy routines in order to maintain them — is also an imperative part of recovery. Living sober is a lifelong commitment, and in many cases, it’s a lifelong job that you must work hard at...
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But What If I’m Bad? By Z Zoccolante Deep down we all have a sense of inadequacy. We all wonder if we’re enough. We all have days where we get low. For some of us, our childhoods have role modeled a life that isn’t what we want for our future. For some of us, we have grown to believe that we are bad. This belief that we are bad might not lie on the surface, like the ripples on a lake. Instead, it might be like the...
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What if I Don’t Trust Myself? By Z Zoccolante The night before I checked into the eating disorder treatment hospital, I wrote in my journal, I don’t think I can get better . . . but I’m hoping I can prove myself wrong. I’m a smart girl, but up until that point I’d tried for years to stop binging and purging, to stop restricting what I ate, to stop hating my body in the mirror. But daily I failed. After...
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