I Haven't Shaved In 6 Weeks - Truths About Eating Disorders
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Blog about all The Truths About Eating Disorders, Rehab, and Recovery by Lindsey Hall, a PCOS Warrior and a Day-time Publicist.
I Haven't Shaved In 6 Weeks - Truths About Eating Disorders
4y ago
The other day I was social distance hiking with my roommate.
It’s finally spring here in Boulder, and the quarantine mandates are lifting. The grass is growing, people are all over their lawns in a desperate attempt to carve out some alone time, and bikers are abundant. Masks and lone latex gloves litter the streets.
There’s a feeling in the air like people are coming out of a daze.
Anyway, we’re hiking and chatting about our futures (for me, the absolute unknown of it) when I look down at my leg and effectively cringe.
I hadn’t been in shorts in a few months, hadn’t hiked with a leg out-in-t ..read more
I Haven't Shaved In 6 Weeks - Truths About Eating Disorders
4y ago
It’s 8:30 on a Monday morning, and I’ve been in quarantine for 23 days. Or more. I’ve lost track of time. As I wrote that, I had to double check if it was Monday on my phone calendar.
A month ago, I was on a connecting flight in San Francisco to go to Europe and Morocco indefinitely (okay, probably like a month because money doesn’t grow on trees):
It was to be my Eat, Pray, Love debut. I was going to write my book, figure out what I wanted my career to be (I’m going through a quarter-life crisis, we’ll call it), go makeup free, taste Cafe Con Leche at cafes, wander the streets of Europe ..read more
I Haven't Shaved In 6 Weeks - Truths About Eating Disorders
4y ago
It’s New Years Eve, and I’m sat in a coffee shop on Pearl Street in Boulder, CO, where I live, trying to wrap up the sentiments of this past year.
It’s been months since I’ve written a post. What’s new? I’m not even gonna try make a self-deprecating joke about it. Tis life. And I write a lot about the ole eating disorder on Instagram so I guess I’m just a basic millennial that shares experiences as they happen.
Anyway, I felt the beautiful sense of urgency today – to wake up and try to make sense of this last year in my life. What lessons to focus on (recovery smatterings) and what to ..read more
I Haven't Shaved In 6 Weeks - Truths About Eating Disorders
4y ago
A few weeks ago, I met my ex fiancé after work. The night before, I told him I was dating my roommate.
Killer opening line, right?
“Wheyo Linds, where
ya been?”
Then, BAM: open with a doozy one-liner.
Actually, more of like a “wait WTF. Didn’t she JUST get
engaged? Didn’t I recently like that picture on Instagram? Who is this chick –
a bachelorette contestant?”
To confirm: yes, there was an engagement in March. It ended in
May. I’m now dating my roommate.
And no, I will not apply for The Bachelor.
More of that later.
Anyway. I meet him; outside on a restaurant pati ..read more
I Haven't Shaved In 6 Weeks - Truths About Eating Disorders
5y ago
This one’s to you, anorexia –
For you
continue to change my life.
—
The last time I saw my best friend alive, it was 9:00pm at a house party at The University of Arkansas, and I stood there, in the front yard of someone’s house, backing away from him because I wanted to finish a run.
18 years old – our first week of college – he was visiting on his way to a Mississippi school.
Linds, he pleaded, reaching out for my shoulder. Just stay. Christ, don’t run.
I’ll be back, I’d laughed – shorts whipping my legs in the night breeze. I’ll run and I’ll change and I’ll come back ..read more
I Haven't Shaved In 6 Weeks - Truths About Eating Disorders
5y ago
In December 2013, I was gearing up to go to treatment in Florida after 8 years of living in the eating disorder cycle.
In my mind, I had this notion that rehab was gonna be this all-knowing descent into radical self realization.
More or less, I expected to come out of it being Basic B*tch Gandhi… or at the very least, Mother Teresa’s sinful pseudo-daughter. Meditating on the reg – zen-like in feeling, and – of course – still thin because in my jacked up head I thought the weight I felt was “extra” was only there because I binge ate about as much as I starved.
L-O-L.
I’m not laughing. This di ..read more
I Haven't Shaved In 6 Weeks - Truths About Eating Disorders
5y ago
I’ve been a slacker on the blog this past month and some. Tis’ true.
I’d love to make 100 different excuses as to why (and will totally take this as an opp to shamelessly plug the fact that my partner and I are engaged as of a week ago!) but the truth is I have really just allowed myself to overextend commitments.
Whether it’s recovery meet n’ greet coffees or planning recovery speeches or my 9-5 job or traveling for my 9-5 (and recently for a recovery speech) I am at the point where I can no longer give a present (and meaningful) amount of time to any one email, Instagram direct message, or p ..read more