This is Sheena’s Place’s Participant-Centred Blog that features our recovery stories, art, struggles, poetry, interviews, and many more, which all follow a set of safe space guidelines. We recognize that everyone is at a different place in their recovery. Food, weight, dieting, calories, specific eating disordered behaviours, or exercise behaviours can often be triggering, and are therefore not published on this blog. To submit your work, please email Kmccarthy@sheenasplace.org and read about Sheena’s Place’s blog moderator, Kira, here.
What the Land Took, What the Body
Dear Readers, Some pieces ask us to look past our own story to understand it better. Shelly G. writes this week about a history she…
Read MoreSummer in Layers
Dear Blog Readers, Summer has a way of catching you off guard. It shows up and suddenly everything is louder and brighter and more exposed…
Read MoreA Letter to My Granddaughter, Marisol, Who Taught Me My Own Name
Dear Blog Readers, Raymond is fifty-eight years old and he is writing to his seven-year-old granddaughter. He does not know when she will read this….
Read MoreThe Pot on the Stove
Dear Blog Readers, Some stories arrive already knowing what they need to say. Adaeze’s is one of them. She writes about food as language, about…
Read MoreNew Season
Dear Blog Readers, Recovery is not a straight line. There are weeks that feel like progress and weeks that feel like starting over. And then…
Read MoreFor You, When You Are Older
Dear Blog Readers, This one is quiet and brave in equal measure. It is a letter that took courage to write because it required a…
Read MoreThe Year I Missed
Dear Blog Readers, Sometimes the body says, “enough” before we are ready to listen. Sometimes the decision gets made for us. Tariq did not choose…
Read MoreNot Sick Enough
Dear Blog Readers, One reason people delay seeking help for an eating disorder is the belief that they are not sick enough to deserve it….
Read MoreAlmost April
Dear Blog Readers, Spring is complicated when you have a difficult relationship with your body. The warmer it gets, the harder it becomes to stay…
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