About Me:
My name is Emily and welcome to my space! I run cross country and track in college and I am a rising junior majoring in psychology. Writing has been an outlet for me and I'm hoping that sharing some of my writing can help someone else out there. Recovering from mental illness isn't pretty, but the other side will be beautiful. |
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I’ve been in sports my entire life, and high school was no exception. I competed with a few teams but my favorite was track. When I was 17 I became very invested in nutrition and exercise and decided to ‘better’ myself. What started as healthy turned toxic and obsessive, leading me to putting my health in danger. Without going into detail, I ended up in the hospital for anorexia and spent my days working on healing my relationship with food and exercise instead of being in class learning about algebra. I spent my time practicing facing fear foods instead of practicing for track, and that was extremely difficult to accept. Not being with my team and missing out on high school memories has been a harsh reality to accept, even to this day. Senior year I continued to get better, and was able to go back to school and compete in both my sports. I then was able to commit to go to college when I had been told it was unlikely I would attend one to begin with, much less get the chance to run for them too.
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College has presented countless challenges, and hasn’t been all sunshine. Running cross country and track have been the highlights of my college experience with my team, but that also entails many challenges. Patterns of taking breaks/train less for running because of my health, and living on my own isn’t as easy as it seems. I still have a lot of work to do and I am nowhere close to recovered, but I have hope to be free someday.
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