“It’d be easy to get lost here, in the spaces where I feel like a ghost. A spirit who couldn’t touch, or be touched. It’d be easy, so easy, to drown. But I keep swimming back towards the shore.”
Source: Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens
“Man has made the artificial world in which he lives, but he is clearly not made for it.”
Source: Paleo Family: Raising Natural Kids in an Unnatural World
“An eating disorder can be very secluding and can make even the most important people in your life fade into the background.”
Source: Brain over Binge: Why I Was Bulimic, Why Conventional Therapy Didn't Work, and How I Recovered for Good
“On No Work of Words
On no work of words now for three lean months in the bloody
Belly of the rich year and the big purse of my body
I bitterly take to task my poverty and craft:
To take to give is all, return what is hungrily given
Puffing the pounds of manna up through the dew to heaven,
The lovely gift of the gab bangs back on a blind shaft.
To lift to leave from the treasures of man is pleasing death
That will rake at last all currencies of the marked breath
And count the taken, forsaken mysteries in a bad dark.
To surrender now is to pay the expensive ogre twice.
Ancient woods of my blood, dash down to the nut of the seas
If I take to burn or return this world which is each man's work.”
Source: Collected Poems
“Could it be that despite all the years I spent in medical school and residency training acquiring specialized knowledge and practical skills, that this expertise mattered little to my patients' overall health?”
Source: Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
“Wrong eating is the disease.
Right eating is the medicine.”
“Our body is intelligent; we are stupid.”
“There is more mental health cure found in a pile of dirt than in all the behavioral therapy and drugs in modern medical science.”
Source: Paleo Family: Raising Natural Kids in an Unnatural World
“The pathway to health is really a process of rebirth.”
Source: Getting Well Again
“But maintaining the primacy of the individual-lifestyle focus—without being transparent about larger influences—is an affront to people living in disadvantage, as it reduces their ill health to poor “choices”and blames them, all the while contributing to the stigma and judgmental thinking that fuels their oppression, worsens their health, and expands the health divide between the advantaged and disadvantaged.”
Source: Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight