And through the joy and pain that our lives bring, we can do a hard thing.

Hi. Hi, my sister.

So if that welcome sounded a little bit dramatic and dready, it's because we

are going to talk about something pretty serious today.

And that topic, I actually haven't even spoken directly to sister about any of this.

Abby and I, we have been in light conversation about this situation for the last couple of weeks at least.

But what we're going to talk about today is something serious and kind of sad,

but really important and hard and that's what we do here is we talk about things that are important,

even when they're hard or especially when they're hard.

So what we're going to do is talk about the fact that over the holidays, I had a eating disorder relapse.

And that sounds way too simple for what happened and has been happening, but I only have words to describe things

so I can only use words.

So that is what happened over the holidays.

And so today, I'm going to talk about it here with all of you.

And I'm going to just try to use words, which is all I have to describe

what I've been going through for the last bit of time.

Well, before you get into it, tell us how you're feeling right now.

I feel a little bit, I feel nervous to represent things accurately.

I feel a big responsibility to speak about something that so many people suffer from.

I feel scared because whenever anyone, anyone, I don't think it's just in the public.

Anyone speaks about what the world would consider a failure.

It feels like you're making yourself vulnerable to people discounting you.

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