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My Testimony of Recovery from Bulimia (Christian) - January 10th 2010, 11:22 PM

Hi folks,

I guess I have enough posts now that I can link to my testimony - rather than copying and pasting it all here, here is the link to where it appears on my blog: [Edited by Jen: blog may be triggering to users; feel free to PM Marie if you want the link, with the knowledge that it may be triggering]

To make a long story short, I fell into anorexic and then bulimic patterns my sophomore year of high school, although the roots went back much further than that. I was a little bit chubby as a kid and my mother always was trying to put me on a diet (when that didn't work, she'd put me down and demean me in front of relatives and others). I almost died my freshman year of college, but I was able to put on enough weight to keep myself out of the hospital and pretty much hide the binge/purging.

Early in my sophomore year of college, someone shared the Gospel with me and I joined Campus Crusade for Christ. I believed I was saved and I probably was, but I just could not surrender this huge, ugly secret to God and turn away from it (deep down I didn't really believe it was possible). It was possible, but it took me another 14 years to become desperate enough to really let God free me.

That was 6 years ago. I've never had a relapse, and I write as much as I can to help other women struggling with the same thing.

Hope someone finds some encouragement from my story. Have a good week, all!

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Re: My Testimony of Recovery from Bulimia (Christian) - January 11th 2010, 01:09 AM

Hi Marie!

Wow it did seem like you had it pretty bad, im sorry to hear that. But well done on your recovery and its great you havent relapsed! That's an awesome effort!!!
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Re: My Testimony of Recovery from Bulimia (Christian) - January 11th 2010, 11:35 PM

Oops....I just added a custom signature with the blog link in it before I saw this - sorry Jen; it wasn't intentional! Will take it out of my siggy. Thanks for putting the reason in for removing the link - the last thing I would want to do is throw someone off who is fragile in her recovery.


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