"If I ever want to heal myself from my own destructiveness, I need to take responsibility for what I’ve done in service of my eating disorder and forgive past me for turning to such destructive means to handle life, since these measures were all I knew to survive each day." "So many people in the recovery community preach that you should love your body the way that it is and that your body is perfect the way it’s supposed to be naturally and that’s obviously not helpful for trans people because our bodies are the things that are causing us so much pain"