celebrate
I am going to do something out of the ordinary for me. I am going to celebrate my accomplishments. In a way, blogging about them is a way of celebrating, it acknowledges them. It puts them out in the open. Truthfully, I do not know why I avoid opening up about what I have overcome. In many ways, it feels odd to do so. Anyways, here it goes. The first accomplishment that comes to mind is my recovery. For a while, I did not think I would make it to eighteen. Growing up was not something I thought I would experience. Now, at eighteen, I have started my senior year of high school and I am starting college applications. How crazy is that? Looking at the facts, I should be proud of freeing myself from an eating disorder. According to the National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA) "y oung people between the ages of 15 and 24 with anorexia have 10 times the risk of dying compared to their same-aged peers." Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illne