Today is the day, friends! Real Recovery: What Eating Disorder Recovery Actually Looks Like is being released! You can get it on Amazon with just a few quick clicks!
Why I Wrote This Book
I realize you may be tired of hearing about Real Recovery and why you need it in your life. I never want the content I share on TTT to feel like a sales pitch because that’s not what this blog is about. If you’ve read my posts for a while, you know exactly what TTT is about: finding where God’s Word meets our mess. When you read my posts, I want you to be encouraged and challenged—to not make the same mistakes I’ve made but to be honest when you do. My goal for Real Recovery is similar.
I wrote this book because I wanted young women to have what I didn’t have while I was in the depths of eating disorder recovery: a realistic-but-hopeful book that told me that I was going to be okay even if “okay” didn’t mean “instantly healed.” That book didn’t seem to exist anywhere. When I searched for books about eating disorders and recovery, I found essentially one type of book: dark, depressing memoirs written by women who had been deathly anorexic. Thankfully, my eating disorder wasn’t that severe. It was hard to read about women whose eating disorders had been that severe.
I wanted to broaden the selection of Christian books about eating disorders—not only for the sake of those struggling with eating disorders but also for the sake of those who know people struggling with eating disorders. My counselors did help me recover from anorexia, and I’m grateful for that. But I still wanted to talk with someone who understood exactly what I was going through.
Why You Should Read This Book
Several years ago, I briefly considered becoming a counselor. But after I took an introductory college psychology course and didn’t enjoy it, I realized that becoming a counselor probably wasn’t my calling. I did, however, realize that even though psychology classes weren’t my thing, I still liked counseling people through writing.
No, I don’t have a doctorate degree or a master’s degree or even a bachelor’s degree in psychology. But I do want my book to be like a series of counseling sessions—just you and me talking about the highs and lows of eating disorder recovery as we journey together. Because I know where you’ve been and where you want to be.
If you don’t have an eating disorder, I still think that you should read Real Recovery—mainly because eating disorders are way more relevant than perhaps we like to admit. If you want to get inside the head of your daughter, mom, wife, sister, girlfriend, friend, student, or patient, reading Real Recovery is a great first step. It’s a much lighter book than many of the current titles in the Christian book market.
So on this very special day that “happens” to be during Eating Disorders Awareness Week, here’s what I want you to know about my newly released book:
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ. (2 Corinthians 1:3-5 NASB)
I didn’t struggle with an eating disorder or recovery in vain, and neither do you. You know where to go if you want to find out more about my journey and receive encouragement for yours.
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