No regrets Just learnings part 2!
Thank you hunny i so needed this today. i have missed out on more and this weekend used condition to not go to my friends bday and felt so guilty. like the worst friend ever another thing to ad to the list. i think the big things i miss too but also the small like:
- icecream on sunny day
- girlie nights in with munchies and dvd
- dvds
- my long hair
- my smile
- conversations with firends, i realised i was so self centred that i actually dont know them at all yet they know me!
- tea(yes i was afriad of the calories pathetic but good news its now my fav thing=))
- hobbies
- boyfriends and losing the good ones cause i dint derserve them and/or have time. and missing the good onbes when my own determination to lose weight meant i missed out on his last few months. that kills me everyday.
- lie ins
- sleep in general
- money i have spends thousands on condition in return i have to pay thousands to recover not a very fair deal!
- passions in life/a sense of me!
- never fitting in feelin like i was trapped in a bubble invisible to everyone life spinning out of control around me and blaming those arund me never condition
- debs, my 21st, all my college years i never went out lived in the gym and dont remember a thing, my grandas 80th, 7 family christmases, years of family meals to the point i amt terrified to go back to that one again, missed my sister becoming a strong independent woman, and missed my sister when she lived here
- worst off i will never be the inspiration i wanted t be to my lil sister she will never look up to me or admire like i did my older sister, never come to me for advise i will never be a real sister and its devastating
- my nanny and her memory it was too much and i used condition to forget her and the pain, i used it to wish my parents had died instead i felt like the worst person ever, like the momory is now tainted by this ed, that my rel with my parents is dead cause of me. and to rebuild that trust even if i do the cracks wills till show....
- driving
- holidays
- clothes shopping with friends , i felt fat or had to hide my arms
- lunches/dates/cinema/nights out
- i have no favourite food or restaurent
- this hit me in work they where all talking about thre 20s and thethings they did i had NOTHING to say! devo!!!!!
- ppl saw thru me i was like the walking dead no life just empty just a fragile body
- i had too many sh*t bdays in fact the months of novemver to jan i wished never existed.
- hot chocolate
- toast and tea in bed when i was feeling sick
my teeth i use to be told that i had a pearly whit amazing smile that no whitning o dentist could achieve and i have not been told that in about 3 years this is te biggiest regret i have.
But little by little i am relaiming my life:
- i text or talk to friends a lil bit more
- i go out a few times and get invited ppl want me out again
- i have life in my eyes, i can look ppl in the eyes, i am still fragile but i am healing
- i have a full time job i am struggle and its very challengign but i have a job
- i am planning on either studying nutrition or fashion maybe both hehehehe but in the mean time to do lil short courses like a massage one
- my goal nutritionaly is to do yoga its a huge motivator
- heading back to lanzarote with the dealiest ppl ever ;) migdets beware us crazy eejits are back hahaha and men beware!
- i want a better birthday!i wont spend it restrictin in the gym or crying this year, i deserve more.
- i am standing up for me to the ed and my family its not easy and i am struggling to stand my ground to both and not resort to been old ciara but i can do this
- today i want better!
thanks erica for helping me see the positive in the regret that was crushing me lately...... cant wait to learn even more in november, roll on fun sillyness learning and my blondeness be prepared missus- between the lot of us its gonna be savage!
Ciara xxx
Hey!
There are lots of things that the condition has taken away from us, like a nice cup of tea!!! But it's crazy how much we begin to appreciate al those little things, that many other people don't even think twice about!! So yeah it's shit that the condition takes away all the real pleasures and enjoyments in life, but now I value these pleasures SO SO much (like a day spent with my family, having the courage to eat a "dinner" with people, sitting watching the match with my mum, making tea WITH milk, picking apples from our tree, sitting with my dog, no gym membership).
And it's like we get to start from scratch....so we may not have much to say about our college life or early twenties BUT we get to learn what are our favourite foods/ restuarant, hobbies, courses we really want to do!! We get to look back at our twenties (or whatever age pple are when recovering) and think WOW i was so brave, strong, courageous, hopeful, etc. etc. cos we are dealing with a lot more than many other people.
So no regrets about what our college life or early twenties could have been like, or all the small and big things missed out on....... cos we get to create a whole brand spanking new future FULL of birthdays, holidays, celebrations, cinema trips, yoga classess, night courses, tea in bed, friends, boyfriends, family, pets, hot chocolate, romantic dinners....it's all ahead of us!! I really really believe, and have hope that behind all the challenges and tears that a life of freedom is waiting for us all.....and we get to taste and practise this in Lanzarote.....cannot wait!!!
Didn't mean for this reply to be so long.... :)
Erika x











ok been thinkin bout this and somethings will never change we cant turn back time or change history somethings i have to just let be and accept that they will pass... others i have to work on changing. saying somethings makes me just feel plain worse so maybe the past can be the past. focusing in all the things gone or lost wont help me i need to look to the future and not try make my life what it was but new and what i want it to be i dont have get everything back just enough to be happy,,, this makes sense to me maybe to noone else but to me. This past week recovery has not got a look in i have been condition condition condition now its recoverys turn and not letting the ed use the past as a way to suck me further back in..... i have to trust that all these things will work themselves out and that if i struggle/am strugglin to do so that i am not alone and donet have to be sick or look a certain way to ask for help or justfiy something or to to fight to get something back..... just some mental processing.....
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.