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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…

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Summer 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…

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A 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….

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Dear Blog Readers, Theo is nineteen and very funny and working very hard not to let you see that the funny is doing a job….

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The 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…

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New 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…

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Sucked In

Dear Blog Readers, Some lessons arrive disguised as simple observations. This one starts with familiar advice about posture and ends somewhere far more tender. The…

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For 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…

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The 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…

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Not 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….

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Almost 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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The Fine

Dear Blog Readers, Men with eating disorders are underrepresented in our community, in research, and in the public conversation about what these illnesses actually look…

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