Road to the Rainbow: A Personal Journey to Recovery from an Eating Disorder Survivor. Meredith Seafield Grant

affecting me personally. I encourage those embracing the road to recovery to do the same.

      I’ve been asked by readers, “Do the old messages ever go away?” The question often being asked is in reference to my sexual abuse by a neighbour, and the emotional abuse by members of the clergy at the private school I attended in high school. My answer is…the messages never go away completely but with wellness I have been able to process them in a way that they no longer influence my day to day activities.

      That’s what recovery allows you to do; realistically put things where they need to be placed within your life’s history. What you ultimately realize is that you can choose to stay in the past and the negativity that’s attached to it, or you can deal with the present, the now and move on. This aspect of being 100% present in the now has been key to how I live my life today.