# @instagram on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B89nDgGB7Rn
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11620606-instagram-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-02-24T20:14:50.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** instagram (@instagram) — https://gondola.cc/instagram

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“My eating disorder tries to tell me that I’d be safer in a smaller body, but I try to remind myself that the ‘safety’ and relief came at the cost of everything else in my life. As my body shrunk, so did my entire life.”⁣
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Shira Rosenbluth (theshirarose) is uniquely positioned in her career as an eating disorder therapist, since she is in recovery for anorexia and bulimia.⁣
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“It feels empowering to be able to take my years of suffering and pain and use it to try and make this world a safer place for people in larger bodies. I was a therapist in an outpatient clinic for the first three years of my career and had no intention of treating eating disorders because of my history. But every time I had a client with an eating disorder walk through my door, we were able to do amazing work and it was an area that I was so incredibly passionate about and also really good at. I knew that this was what I was meant to do. It’s the biggest privilege to be able to to be a part of someone else’s healing journey,” she says.⁣
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“Reaching out for support and allowing someone else in can be really scary. My clients are some of the bravest people I know, and I wouldn’t change what I do for the world.” ❤️⁣
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This post recognizes neda Awareness Week in the US. #NEDAwareness

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