There was a time when I was unable to get out of bed because my body, its muscles eating themselves away, refused… — Marya Hornbacher Bed Copy Share Image
“The lesson of daily spiritual practice is not a complicated one and requires no special equipment; we are simply learning to love.… — Marya Hornbacher Daily spiritual Copy Share Image
“Whether one believes that transformation is effected by the will of an outer force, or the willingness of an inner self, does… — Marya Hornbacher Change Copy Share Image
• Eating disorders are addictions. You become addicted to a number of their effects. The two most basic and important: the pure… — Marya Hornbacher Addiction Copy Share Image
“We are, by our very human nature, limited in what we can know or do or control or change.” — Marya Hornbacher Change Copy Share Image
I began to measure things in absence instead of presence. — Marya Hornbacher Absence Copy Share Image
“Here's how you make absolutely sure that you'll keep getting crazier by the day: - Ignore everything your psychiatrist tells you. Disregard… — Marya Hornbacher Blood sugar Copy Share Image
And it's California, where everything is powerfully strange. Everyone wants it to be home. Everyone left where he or she was from… — Marya Hornbacher California Copy Share Image
“I wish I could find words to explain what this kind of cold is like – the cold that has somehow gotten… — Marya Hornbacher Ice cube Copy Share Image
In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it. — Marya Hornbacher Believe Copy Share Image
“The last place I want to be is the hospital, but I'm not stupid. I know when it's time to go in.… — Marya Hornbacher Last place Copy Share Image
“The spiritual self is the deepest, most integrated aspect of who we are.” — Marya Hornbacher Religion Copy Share Image
You can only whine for so long. Then you need to get your life back. — Marya Hornbacher Life Copy Share Image
The problem is that you don't just choose recovery. You have to keep choosing recovery, over and over and over again. You… — Marya Hornbacher Choices Copy Share Image
“When we doubt, we learn to accept that we may not ever know. When we question, we learn to accept that there… — Marya Hornbacher Doubt Copy Share Image
Hospitalizations in general are blurry. The days are the same, precisely the same. Nothing changes. Life melts down to a simple progression… — Marya Hornbacher Blurry Copy Share Image
There's childhood and early onset bipolar, but it transitions in your early adulthood into something a little bit different, and extremely severe.… — Marya Hornbacher Adulthood Copy Share Image
“we have few words for spiritual beyond those that refer back to a God. But not believing in a God is not… — Marya Hornbacher Religion Copy Share Image
I am feeling fine. I remember these words and recite them. These are the things you say when asked how you are.… — Marya Hornbacher Detachment Copy Share Image
“Forgetting who you are and where you are and if you're there. Getting lost in the thought that you might be imagining… — Marya Hornbacher Getting lost Copy Share Image
“You cannot explain, with the limitations of language and inexperience, why your body can cause such a sudden, fumbling response in someone… — Marya Hornbacher Body Copy Share Image
Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love. — Marya Hornbacher Fall Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, an incredible freedom in having nothing left to lose. — Marya Hornbacher Facts Copy Share Image
And so I went through the looking glass, stepped into the netherworld, where up is down and food is greed, where convex… — Marya Hornbacher Death Copy Share Image
He leaned down and whispered to me: No matter how thin you get, no matter how short you cut your hair, it's… — Marya Hornbacher Arms Copy Share Image
