It’s National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, and I really felt that it was time for me to share my personal experience.  I’ve wanted to write about it for a very long time now; mainly because my story has a happy ending, and I want others fighting through it to know that there’s hope.  But still, it’s a difficult topic for me to write about, as it was such an emotional struggle.

Originally I thought that I should try to find photo’s, but I’ve opted to not share photo’s of myself during that time.  I don’t want to – in any way – trigger someone else’s struggles, and this is also not about how I looked.  This is about being in a dark place and finding healing.

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I was sixteen years old, when it all started.  Honestly, my struggle wasn’t based on body image insecurities or pressure from anyone in…