I do remember points in my life briefly where like when I would get upset I wouldn't eat.

As a child, that's how I dealt with stress and that's how I asked for help.

Because we don't think about crying for help in that way,

but actually when you refuse to eat some form of seeking attention,

I need help and I don't know how to ask for help,

and I want you to know that I'm in pain.

Sometimes I have parents do things that we think are wrong,

but they had no intention of hurting us.

So how do I move forward? I have to forgive my dad. I have to forgive my mom. I have to realize that actually they didn't mean to hurt me. Your perspective of something isn't the same perspective

that your mom or your dad would have.

The reason we forgive them and the reason we can't be angry with them is because they're also learning.

And we forget that. My journey towards self-love has always been a difficult one.

Just when I think I have conquered it, years, sometimes months later, new cracks begin to show.

You're listening to Unsween and Unfiltered the podcast, episode 26 of season three.

If these words sound a bit familiar to you, that is because they

were written by the poet Asma El Bedoui, who also happens to be today's special guest.

Esma's poems are known for their rawness and their unfiltered truth when it comes to covering

subjects such as mental health, racism, and many other personal life struggles. I do want to

give a trigger warning.

This episode primarily focuses on eating disorders. If you feel the content discussed could

be triggering, please either proceed with caution or feel free to listen to any one of our

previous episodes. On this podcast, we have covered EDI before in our first season, but in sharing

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