KYW1. I am re-parenting my past self and re-writing my story, imagining what past me would’ve done differently had I been raised by supportive, loving parents rather than abusers. Maybe I wouldn’t have developed an eating disorder and nicotine and alcohol addictions. Maybe I would’ve been more confident/independent in choosing how to dress, whom to be friends with, and how to spend my time.
KYW1. I am re-parenting my past self and re-writing my story, imagining what past me would’ve done differently had I been raised by supportive, loving parents rather than abusers. Maybe I wouldn’t have developed an eating disorder and nicotine and alcohol addictions. Maybe I would’ve been more confident/independent in choosing how to dress, whom to be friends with, and how to spend my time.
I imagine my younger self feeling empowered to legally emancipate from my abusive parents and seek a chosen family where my eating disorder recovery would be fully supported and where I ould be safe from abuse. (My actual teenage experience was that my parents looked the other way when I was depressed, tired, and thin, and my eating habits were erratic and my periods stopped. And when they found diet pills in my purse they punished me instead of getting me into treatment. I deserved so much better.)