Glennon Doyle opens with the new diagnosis of food disorders: "I didn't believe it"

The popular author was blinded by the news.


A New York Times author of bestsellers, Glennon Doyle is best known for its three moving memories, Savage ,, Warrior love , and Continue, warrior . As an extension of these popular projects, it now hosts the podcast We can do difficult things Alongside his football wife Abby Wambach and sister Amanda Doyle .

While fans have expected that the open honesty of Doyle on difficult subjects, many have always been surprised by his recent disclosure of a new food disorder diagnostic. But perhaps the most shaken of all was Doyle herself, which says that she was blinded by the insight of her doctor on her state.

Read the rest to know why the news of her diagnosis was such a shock, and why she decided to publicly share this news in the "disorderly environment" of her recovery.

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Doyle was opened on its long history of bulimia.

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Through his books and his podcast, the author has exposed his story to fight against and recover from alcoholism, drug abuse and bulimia. However, in a recent episode of We can do difficult things , she revealed to the listeners that she had relapsed in her food disorder when she started to serve after eating and religiously looking at the ladder.

After having discussed it with her doctor and therapist, Doyle decided to make her recent challenges public, she explained in a recent Instagram post. "I am not doing well when there is something important that I remember. I think it comes from my recovery from alcoholism," she added by speaking to People . "" I don't try to be brilliant , "she added." We call it We can do difficult things For a reason."

Although Doyle considers involve, the honesty of "life" as crucial for her own healing, she notes that she has given herself a period of grace to treat privately before sharing her news with the public. "I think there is a real and important part of talking about your scars and not gaping open injuries," she said.

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Now she has revealed a new diagnosis of food disorder.

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When Doyle relapses in her Boulic patterns , she turned to health professionals to get help. At the time, she hoped to control her “under control” habits, to be less frightened and freer and not in danger, "she said.

However, after a in -depth physical and mental assessment, the evaluation of his doctor was a shock: in addition to relapse in bulimia, Doyle was also diagnosed with anorexia. "There is no way that I can explain the level of perplexity, shock, denial, confusion," she shared on the podcast. "The change of my identity as bulimic, bulimic, bulimic ... Anorexia is a completely different thing," said Doyle. "It's like a different religion. It is a different identity. It is a different way of thinking, it's so confusing and it shook me very deeply. And I didn't believe it," -As she added.

She says that acceptance of the diagnosis has taken a "big change in reflection".

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In the time that followed, Doyle began to deal with its history of food disorders through this new lens. "It was a Great change of thought For me, "she said (via People ). "I started to read this book on what the life of an anorexic looks like. I don't know how to explain the feeling of reading things that you thought to be part of your personality and that you were, and read that They are in fact only a collection of symptoms of an efficient disease, "said Doyle.

Since self-reflection was a focal point for Doyle's successful career, Doyle admits that she found her supervision of her own "humiliating" condition.

"It was amazing to be a person whose life and work concern self-examination, is to discover the nuance and the minutees of who we are and speaking every day and not knowing this information on you- Even, "she said.

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Doyle adopts a new approach to its recovery.

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With hindsight, Doyle says that it now realizes that its initial recovery of bulimia lacked the soul necessary to overcome its affliction in a more permanent way. "I never, not, only once, I went back and I really understood what happened to me. To crush my bulimia." It partially led to its relapse and its secondary diagnosis, suggest- she. "It's like, bulimia being an animal, then I corrected it by becoming a robot. It is as if I had cured my bulimia with anorexia." AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

The author says that she is now determined to work on the "disorderly environment" of her diagnosis and strives to appropriate her recovery. "This year, we are going to be messy and complicated and frightened and go anyway , "she shared on social networks.


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