' 'body image' 'mental illness' 'starvation' 'eating disorder' ' working out' ' healthy' 'unhealthy'
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My bedroom,
A place of peace and tranquility,
Or is it a place of vulnerability.
My mirror that takes up half my wall,
Watches as my confidence falls.
Step 1
The girls at school talk about how they don't want to look like Meridith. (She's in fourth grade and already over 100lbs)
Step 2
I do not know where my skin meets the sea. It catches the sun like a stone, rolling softly off winds from the North and I do not know where the grass is green. I only know that this smile is because of you.
It all starts somewhere.
Internally,
Externally,
Or neither.
For me, it started inside.
Not exactly happily,
But, a realization,
Get better or die quickly.
