Backup Quote by Jenni Schaefer

In the past, I was a perpetual victim; how I was doing in any given moment depended on what happened to me. Today I…

— Jenni Schaefer

Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times.

— Jenni Schaefer

Oftentimes, especially during my recovery, I didn't need to think about everything I was doing wrong; instead, I needed to focus more on what…

— Jenni Schaefer

“Why couldn’t I find one action that would make the need to binge automatically disappear? Because there is no magic action to make that…

— Jenni Schaefer

“When we feel like giving up, like we are beyond help, we must remember that we are never beyond hope. Holding on to hope…

— Jenni Schaefer

Recovery is about making room for the real me to exist.

— Jenni Schaefer

“Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times. Real hope combined with doing nothing has never pulled me through.”

— Jenni Schaefer

“In the past, my brain could only compute perfection or failure—nothing in between. So words like competent, acceptable, satisfactory, and good enough fell into…

— Jenni Schaefer

“anxiety becomes high energy when taken to the light. For me, it worked like this: I used to live in a constant state of…

— Jenni Schaefer

I would not encourage you to go through the sweat, blood, and tears of the recovery process only to reach some kind of mediocre…

— Jenni Schaefer

“I wrote in my journal about how good I felt when I was not living under Ed’s control. Then, when I really felt like…

— Jenni Schaefer

“During the worst stages of my eating disorder, I was all-or-none with food—either bingeing or not eating. Much of my experience was, in fact,…

— Jenni Schaefer