About
I have created this site to serve as a place to help people understand eating disorders. Through my own recovery, experience and passion I hope to help those suffering with eating disorders seek healing and help. I also hope to educate friends and family members about the disease so they could be better equipped to aid their loved ones in their journey to recovery. I travel across the US and Canada speaking at colleges, high schools,private groups,and treatment center with my speaking program called Looking Through Broken Mirrors. In my program I share my personal story and also educate people about eating disorders, recovery and healing. There are many misconceptions surrounding eating disorders and I hope that through education and treatment many more people will be healed and many more people will seek early intervention. It is my personal belief that the more we speak and educate ourselves about this disease the less people will suffer with it.
Eating Disorders are Diseases and Not Choices!
Yours in Health!
Stacey Prussman
Its so important to emphasize that ED doesn’t always show up “on the outside.” After slow starvation, your metabolism shuts down so you don’t necessarily get rail-thin. I don’t know how many times during recovery someone said “well, you look fine!!” That just made me feel even more inadequate. I actually lost a large amount of weight when I started eating real meals… it was like my body just freaked out and burned off everything before I became stable. Finally when I “looked the part” I was actually eating…. WTF. I lost so many years of my life and it has affected the subsequent years in so many negative ways. I wonder if other people who are recovered feel like that too? Like even when you are better, the butterfly effect of those years touches your every day life in negative ways, and you have to not only fight to stay healthy emotionally but also learn to acknowledge the screwed up ways it impacted your future.