Hello there and thanks for dropping by 🙂
I am Pol, I am 20 years old and I live in Chile (a very seismic country). I have two hamsters and I love them DEEPLY, I’ve been a vegetarian for three years now and my favorite band is The Beatles. I love learning different languages, reading and writing, but at the same time I have a passion for biology and scientific topics. I really like playing pokémon and neopets, singing and playing the guitar, so as you can tell, I’m very miscellaneous.
I used to study Anthropology but I didn’t like the field word and decided I preferred to study something related to health, so I’m currently preparing for the PSU (the test that defines in which university and career I will be able to study).
I’m full of projects for my future and I really hope that with all my efforts and a little bit of luck they will turn out fine.
So, while I may seem to be a very optimistic person I can assure that I haven’t always been this way, and I still have to face many difficult days because I have been struggling with eating disorders, anxiety and depression (on different degrees) for six years. While I’ve always had loving parents, a comfortable place to live and basically everything I need to survive, my problems are literally and metaphorically all inside my head. So after certain events I figured I had enough of it and decided I would win against my mental illnesses no matter how hard the battle was going to be, I finally decided I would seek professional help and do everything that was in my power to overcome these disorders.
Knowing how triggering it can be, I’ve chosen not to share my eating disorder story but only my recovery journey since I believe some details are not relevant.
As some of you may know, I used to have another blog focused entirely on my recovery from Binge Eating Disorder. At first I intended to make it really impersonal but as time went by I started noticing how really difficult it was to keep my own life out of it, and the more I moved forward in my recovery, the more I wanted to open up and share my personal experiences and opinions, so I finally decided to create a new blog in which I will be way more open about my opinion on certain topics, I’ll write some random posts now and then, and I may even share or try some recipes.
I will also focus a lot on how life is when recovering from an eating disorder, how it really has been for me versus how I expected it to be, or versus how it is now versus how it was before my treatment. I will share my struggles as a semi-recovered person, on how it is living a normal life, and I’ll be as honest as possible (that also means I will rant about a few things now and then).
The main focus will still be overcoming Binge Eating Disorder and working towards having a healthy relationship with our bodies, food and above all learning to love ourselves.
Because if there is one thing that recovery has taught me, is that loving myself is the most important part of the journey.
Pol Is Live ! 