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Angela Scanlon: why gratitude is the gateway drug to wellness

The Wellness Scoop

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I've Had an Eating Disorder and I'm a Teenager in My Early 20s

With distance and with time for me it was connected to developing actually physically developing into a woman. I thought that I could run away and go to fancy places and pretend I was this Carrie Bradshaw type foreman but equally I think my control around food allowed for me to fixate so deeply on something really tiny like meal to meal. So there was this shame around it I didn't want to let it go because I didn't trust what might happen if I if I let it go. There was definitely more benefits to being addicted to work than being addicted to food, she says.

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