Envisioning Recovery to Move Toward Recovery

If you want to be a world traveler, you have to go on trips. In order to go on trips, planning them, saving for them, making time to go on them, etc all have to be priorities. If you don’t do those things, if you use your travel fund to buy a new couch or if you use up all of your vacation days to have tons of long weekends, it will be pretty hard to become a world traveler. This isn’t to say that a new couch or long weekends are not things to be prioritized, if that’s what is important to you, but rather to say when we decide we want something, we have to actually do the legwork to make it happen. 

The same logic applies to recovering from diet culture. In order to feel the power of recovery, we have to practice recovered behaviors. We have to do the things that make recovery possible. 

I’ve put together a worksheet to help you identify what recovery self-supportive behaviors you can do today to move you in the direction you want to go in your relationship with yourself, food, and your body. Whatever those behaviors are for you, consider them the equivalent of starting your travel savings account. You’re not going traveling yet, but you’re one step closer to being able to call yourself a world traveler.