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Opening the Door: My Journey Through Anorexia to Full Recovery

Author	Meredith O'Brien

Opening the Door: My Journey Through Anorexia to Full Recovery

Name: Opening the Door: My Journey Through Anorexia to Full Recovery
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Meredith O'Brien

My memoir describes my gut-wrenching journey of recovery from anorexia nervosa from a young girl to entering treatment at the age of thirty-five to full recovery many years later. My memoir is broken down into five sections: History, Treatment, Recovery, Relapse, and Full Recovery. My recovery was not linear. It had ups and downs and twists and turns. I uncover the steps I personally needed to make to reach full recovery. These effective principles include food exposure, feeling my feelings without judgment, strengthening my healthy self, slowing down, practicing mindfulness, building a healthy relationship with food, connecting to others, and creating an identity apart from my body, shape, or weight. Recovery was the hardest path of my life, but I did not give up and now I am a woman without an eating disorder. Now fully recovered, my passion is to write, to inspire others and to help people with eating disorder recovery through mental health counseling and eating disorder coaching. Hopefully this memoir will inspire you to take one step towards recovery and finally have the life you dream of. It’s possible, and there is a life waiting for you on the other side.

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Meredith is not good enough. She is always searching for something outside of herself to make her whole. She escapes into her obsession with body, weight, and shape. Her mind constantly races. Is her stomach flat enough? Everyone is looking at her, judging. She cannot eat for the rest of the day. Inside, she is empty. Meredith has suffered from anorexia since the age of thirteen, and at the age of thirty-five, she entered a partial hospitalization program. Now fully recovered, Meredith shares her honest, complicated, and at times heart-wrenching recovery journey to give hope to those who are suffering.

If you have that little glimmer of hope underneath all the pain of your eating disorder, this book is for you. “Anorexia brings me down, controls me, suffocates me, consumes me. It zaps away any small piece of joy, or happiness or sense of worth. I have these rare occasions where I think There must be more. I want more. I deserve more. I have a brief surge of energy to conquer this disease and think that my whole life is going to change for the better and then seconds later I feel fat and disgusting and the anxiety within me is nearly impossible to tolerate. The disease wins . . .” but Meredith continues to fight and reaches full recovery. A brand-new chapter of her life begins.

Meredith O'Brien

O’Brien’s debut memoir, Opening the Door: My Personal Journey with Anorexia Recovery was published in July 2022 from Koehler Books. The memoir describes her gut-wrenching journey of recovery from anorexia nervosa from a young girl to entering treatment at the age of thirty-five. Now fully recovered, her passion is to write, to inspire others and to help people with eating disorder recovery.

Currently Meredith operates a mental health counseling private practice, Meredith O’Brien & Affiliates, LLC, in Red Bank, New Jersey, where she specializes in treating those with eating disorders. She also manages an Eating Disorder Coaching business, Recovery from Anorexia, LLC, and helps clients with eating disorders all around the world. Meredith received her New Jersey License of Clinical Social Work in 2009. In 2018 she became a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor. In 2020 she became a Carolyn Costin Certified Eating Disorder Coach.

For undergraduate she headed to Loyola College in Maryland, where she received her bachelor’s degree in Communications with a focus on Public Relations. She then received a Master of Allied Health Studies from College of Mount Saint Vincent in 2000 and a Master of Social Work from Fordham University in 2006. Currently she writes a blog at: http://recoveryfromanorexia.com

In her free time, you can find her playing with her golden doodle, Mavi, watching medical dramas and reading entire books in one sitting. Her beacons of hope are her four nephews. Meredith is fully recovered and her then black-and-white life is now in color.