by Juggling The Jenkins | Mar 24, 2019 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
Most people don’t know this about me, but I have had an eating disorder since I was eight years old. I became anorexic after the third grade, as a result of severe emotional abuse from a couple of people in my life at the time. I’m 23 now, and...
by Tiffany Jenkins | Mar 17, 2019 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
You can see clearly from the “then” picture posted above that I was not healthy. I was underweight and my eyes, well, they just look awful. My name is Amanda Burns, I am 26 years old and it has been 3 years, 8 months, and 22 days since I have been free of addiction. I...
by Tiffany Jenkins | Mar 10, 2019 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
My story starts off like most that you hear of heroin addicts these days. I am a 27-year-old female raised in an upper-class white family who, on the outside, seemed to have everything that everyone wanted. The big house, a family with money, dropped off to school in...
by Tiffany Jenkins | Mar 3, 2019 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
It’s been nearly twelve years since I began recovering. I didn’t think of my issue as an addiction until now. I didn’t realize how much I relied on cutting as a coping mechanism. I self-harmed and I’m recovering. But not every day is an easy day. There are days...