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Starting Over Without Scribbling Out
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Starting Over Without Scribbling Out

September 3, 2018 by lifebylexi 0 comments

At thirteen years old, I dreamed of the day that I could go to college, because I wanted the freedom of having no one there to watch me eat. I figured that I would no longer have to suffer the pain of purging if I could simply restrict to the point of no return. So […]

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7 Tips for Finding a Healthy Balance with Exercise
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7 Tips for Finding a Healthy Balance with Exercise

August 4, 2018 by lifebylexi 0 comments

It’s no secret that I’ve spent a good chunk of my life battling an eating disorder. In fact, mental health advocacy and writing have become the thing that I’m most well known for nowadays.

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Oh, The Places You’ll Go (If You Let Yourself Go)
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Oh, The Places You’ll Go (If You Let Yourself Go)

June 24, 2018 by lifebylexi 0 comments

So many times over the past year, I’ve sort of taken a step back and looked at my life. And when I do, I think to myself, “Wow, I’ve really let myself go.” I’m so glad that I did.

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Emotional Repression: How You’re Doing It & How to Stop
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Emotional Repression: How You’re Doing It & How to Stop

June 18, 2018 by lifebylexi 0 comments

I was viciously inhaling toilet water through a feeding tube when I realized, hey, maybe this whole “recovery thing” is going to be a lot harder than I thought. Let me backtrack. I had been in quasi-recovery many a time before. I did most of my work entirely outpatient, bouncing from therapist to therapist, being […]

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How Being “Hated” Made Me Love Myself
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How Being “Hated” Made Me Love Myself

May 10, 2018 by lifebylexi 0 comments

A People Pleaser’s Guide to Being Disliked For the majority of my primary school career, I was a rather neutral figure. People knew who I was; I was involved, I held leadership positions, I spent time flitting between a pretty wide variety of social circles. But I was never a person who other people talked […]

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Things Will Be Different
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Things Will Be Different

March 18, 2018 by lifebylexi 3 comments

When my father was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, an incurable terminal illness, this past October, my entire life was ripped apart at the seams.

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There Are Better Ways to Keep Warm
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There Are Better Ways to Keep Warm

February 14, 2018 by lifebylexi 10 comments

{***Trigger Warning- mild descriptions of disordered eating habits and exercise addiction***} I loved running. Just running.

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Thoughts on Thinking: a Message to Today’s Educators
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Thoughts on Thinking: a Message to Today’s Educators

November 10, 2017 by lifebylexi 1 comment

I submitted this as a scholarship essay in response to the prompt: “If you could tell your school board anything that could be done to improve your education, what would it be?” I thought I might as well share the unfiltered opinion of a public school’s overachieving senior while I still hold that title. 

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Rebirth
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Rebirth

May 18, 2017 by lifebylexi 3 comments

Tried so hard to be empty that you’re full of the loss, tried so hard to be flawless that you’re covered in flaws.

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