Comments on: Yoga and Eating Disorders – Recovery from the Anti-Identity http://foodandyoga.ca/yoga-eating-disorders Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:33:40 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Namaste Vancouver (Yoga Directory) http://foodandyoga.ca/yoga-eating-disorders/comment-page-1#comment-333 Namaste Vancouver (Yoga Directory) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:03:28 +0000 http://foodandyoga.ca/?p=506#comment-333 Great article Karen! Very well written. Great that Yoga is bringing inner peace to you which is the most important thing. Thanks for sharing! We invite you to join Vancouver's Yoga Community http://yogacommunityvancouver.ning.com/ and share your love of Yoga with all. Namaste! Great article Karen! Very well written.

Great that Yoga is bringing inner peace to you which is the most important thing.

Thanks for sharing! We invite you to join Vancouver’s Yoga Community http://yogacommunityvancouver.ning.com/ and share your love of Yoga with all.

Namaste!

]]> By: Karen http://foodandyoga.ca/yoga-eating-disorders/comment-page-1#comment-309 Karen Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:49:26 +0000 http://foodandyoga.ca/?p=506#comment-309 Hi Gaby - thanks for your sincere comment. It's come to me at a time where I really needed an positive vibe so thanks for taking the time to share! (everyone has these days) That first quote was mine - I wrote it recently, reflecting on my headspace when I was at my worst. I'd love to read your poem if you feeling like sending that my way. My email is mail at karen-mackenzie.com. I've felt very much the same about yoga - not that it would work for everyone but I certainly have found that it's calmed me and gradually is helping me turn my attention to what's really important - inner peace so I can live to the fullest and share this with people I love. Keep working on recovery - I understand how long and hard that path is. Karen Hi Gaby – thanks for your sincere comment. It’s come to me at a time where I really needed an positive vibe so thanks for taking the time to share! (everyone has these days)

That first quote was mine – I wrote it recently, reflecting on my headspace when I was at my worst. I’d love to read your poem if you feeling like sending that my way. My email is mail at karen-mackenzie.com.

I’ve felt very much the same about yoga – not that it would work for everyone but I certainly have found that it’s calmed me and gradually is helping me turn my attention to what’s really important – inner peace so I can live to the fullest and share this with people I love. Keep working on recovery – I understand how long and hard that path is.

Karen

]]> By: Gaby http://foodandyoga.ca/yoga-eating-disorders/comment-page-1#comment-308 Gaby Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:41:55 +0000 http://foodandyoga.ca/?p=506#comment-308 Hi Karen, I just found your blog today while browsing yoga blogs and....I don't know that I've ever been so moved by a blog post. This was so well written and seriously, each and every word describes the very essence of an eating disorder- something so impossible to understand to those who have not lived it. I found it hard to hold back tears because everything you've said is ME. I'd be curious to know where your first quote is from because I wrote a poem back when I was 16 that says that exact same thing almost word for word. I should send it to you because it's eerie! And that was years before my struggles with an eating disorder. But the more research I've done on the subject, the more I see so clearly now that it could have been predicted from miles away. My thoughts, my environment, my personality and the way I've always dealt with stress. I've been better for over a year and a half now and have to say that yoga has been vital to recovering. It has centered me, allowed me to respect my body for its strength and beauty, and it reminds me that it needs to be treated well. I still deal with anxiety and stress like anyone else, but yoga always helps, and I now try to practice at least 2 or 3 times a week. I can see a noticeable difference in how I feel emotionally and physically when I stick to a regular yoga routine. I've sort of rambled on but thank you so much for writing this and you're getting added to my blogroll favorites! - Gaby Hi Karen,
I just found your blog today while browsing yoga blogs and….I don’t know that I’ve ever been so moved by a blog post. This was so well written and seriously, each and every word describes the very essence of an eating disorder- something so impossible to understand to those who have not lived it.
I found it hard to hold back tears because everything you’ve said is ME. I’d be curious to know where your first quote is from because I wrote a poem back when I was 16 that says that exact same thing almost word for word. I should send it to you because it’s eerie! And that was years before my struggles with an eating disorder. But the more research I’ve done on the subject, the more I see so clearly now that it could have been predicted from miles away. My thoughts, my environment, my personality and the way I’ve always dealt with stress.
I’ve been better for over a year and a half now and have to say that yoga has been vital to recovering. It has centered me, allowed me to respect my body for its strength and beauty, and it reminds me that it needs to be treated well. I still deal with anxiety and stress like anyone else, but yoga always helps, and I now try to practice at least 2 or 3 times a week. I can see a noticeable difference in how I feel emotionally and physically when I stick to a regular yoga routine.
I’ve sort of rambled on but thank you so much for writing this and you’re getting added to my blogroll favorites!

- Gaby

]]> By: Sally http://foodandyoga.ca/yoga-eating-disorders/comment-page-1#comment-249 Sally Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:58:13 +0000 http://foodandyoga.ca/?p=506#comment-249 Hi Karen: This post brought up many interesting memories of the angst and struggles to find self and a way to fit in with peers and society. I think I have always felt (and enjoyed) some degree of being an outcast / nonconformer... Your comments on "defined not by what you are, but by what you are not" are very thought provoking. Really enjoying your writing and blog. Sally Hi Karen:

This post brought up many interesting memories of the angst and struggles to find self and a way to fit in with peers and society. I think I have always felt (and enjoyed) some degree of being an outcast / nonconformer…

Your comments on “defined not by what you are, but by what you are not” are very thought provoking.

Really enjoying your writing and blog.

Sally

]]> By: Kate http://foodandyoga.ca/yoga-eating-disorders/comment-page-1#comment-248 Kate Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:47:31 +0000 http://foodandyoga.ca/?p=506#comment-248 Beautifully written Karen! Good food for thought... I am finding so many memories tied into foods that I am re-sampling back here in New Zealand. It's an interesting journey discovering different sights and smells that I didn't realise were part of my "identity". Did you enjoy the kayaking on the weekend? Kate Beautifully written Karen!

Good food for thought…

I am finding so many memories tied into foods that I am re-sampling back here in New Zealand. It’s an interesting journey discovering different sights and smells that I didn’t realise were part of my “identity”.

Did you enjoy the kayaking on the weekend?

Kate

]]> By: Tianne http://foodandyoga.ca/yoga-eating-disorders/comment-page-1#comment-247 Tianne Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:30:49 +0000 http://foodandyoga.ca/?p=506#comment-247 I love that quote from Osho. You write beautifully and I'm adding your blog to my faves :) I love that quote from Osho. You write beautifully and I’m adding your blog to my faves :)

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