On Why Eating Disorder Recovery Is Like A Spiritual Awakening

In both cases, you believe yourself to be someone you‘re not. With an eating disorder, you believe yourself to be the person who struggles with their body image, food, and control, you often believe yourself to be broken. Someone who goes through a spiritual awakening believes themselves to be a separate human/ego trying to get ahead in life, moving from A to B, hoping they make ends meet and survive.

Eating disorder recovery challenges you to drop this false identification and the healing journey is a goodbye from who you are not, and a remembrance, a homecoming to who you really are: the most authentic expression of yourself. For that, you have to let the eating disorder and everything that kept it alive die.

The spiritual awakening and manifestation journey also challenges you to drop this false identification and is a goodbye from who you are not, and a remembrance, a homecoming to your true self: the Divine having a human experience. Here too, to experience yourself as the Divine & live from that God-like space, you have to let everything that you are not, including the mistaken identity that was so familiar and therefore served as an illusion of a safety net die.

Both journeys are about the relationship with yourself, not as a separate, imagined character but your true nature — Love/consciousness/I AM — being One with ALL THAT Is. The death of who you are not for giving birth to what you truly are.

That I experienced both and one led to the other is not a coincidence. I had to go through anorexia and exercise addiction in order to get to know myself beyond the surface level and through that, I stumped upon spirituality and manifestation & eventually (with a rollercoaster of a learning curve) the remembering of who or better said what I truly am. Not the body, not the thoughts, not the feelings, not the human but the Divine space that holds them all, that holds everything, the life force that gives life to all that is (and this is you too, mirror mirror) and to truly love me including the human expression, as an expression of the Love that I AM. You found this message because it was meant for you — again, no coincidence but a reminder of what you already know and already are.

For that, I recorded a hand-on-heart podcast episode where I dive deeper into this topic and of course, share some of my experiences (—this blogpost was inspired by my own journey, the beautifully scripted story of my human character):

Thank you us,

your mirror 🪞