20 Affirmations for Eating Disorder Recovery

Using affirmations can be incredibly supportive of eating disorder recovery.

Whether you’re at the start of your journey or you’ve been in recovery for some time, these little positive reminders can make a real difference.

The goal is to build up your personal affirmations list with those you need to hear the most. The ones that serve your personal recovery journey and feel most inspiring to you.

Affirmations can be used in many ways:

• Repeating them to yourself a few times each morning and night.

• Placing them on your bathroom mirror or bedroom walls.

• Creating a background on your phone with your favourite affirmation.

• An inspiring Pinterest board that is full of recovery affirmations.

• Buy or create a set of affirmation cards, and draw a card each day.

Or a combination of all the above!

Ultimately, the more you are exposing yourself to your recovery affirmations, the better.

20 Affirmations For Eating Disorder Recovery

We asked our recovery group to share the affirmations that have supported them most through eating disorder recovery. Here are the top 20 they found most useful. We hope they inspire you too.

1. I trust myself and my body.
   
2. My weight does not define my worth.
   
3. I am enough.
   
4. I do not have to recover alone.
   
5. I am grateful for everything that my body does for me.
   
6. I will be kind to my body today.
   
7. I am alive, healthy and safe.
   
8. I am beautiful and worthy no matter what shape or size I am.
   
9. Small progress is still progress.
   
10. I have permission to rest.
    
11. I am worthy of recovery, I deserve freedom from my eating disorder.
    
12. I am stronger and more powerful than my eating disorder.
    
13. I am deserving of compassion and kindness.
    
14. I am worthy of love.
    
15. I have the power to create the life I deserve.
    
16. I am focused on my healing and my growth.
    
17. I am deserving of happiness.
    
18. I am strong and courageous.
    
19. I am becoming the best version of myself.
    
20. I am discovering my true authentic self.

Don’t forget to share your favourite recovery affirmation with us on Instagram or get in touch if you’d like to learn more about how we can support you through your healing journey.