by Emily Wierenga | Dec 13, 2013 | anorexia, dieting, eating disorders, food, hollywood, hunger, Jennifer Lawrence, letter, starving, The Hunger Games, womanhood
Dear Jennifer Lawrence,Thank you. For eating.For being Hollywood’s Mockingjay. For being a symbol of the rebellion against anorexia and eating disorders. For putting an end to Hollywood’s “Hunger Games”.You’re not the stereotypical... by Emily Wierenga | Aug 30, 2013 | amy hollinsworth, anorexia, book giveaway, Christ, closet, gay, homosexuality, letters from the closet, new creation, starving
When Amy Hollingsworth, a Christian author known for her work surrounding Mister Rogers, approached me about doing a giveaway of her new book, Letters from the Closet: Ten Years of Correspondence that Changed My Life, she told me that Christians were refusing to help... by Emily Wierenga | Jul 31, 2012 | eating disorder, God, hungry, prodigal magazine, starving
Funny how being thin is so important until you realize it accomplishes nothing but hunger. I wish I’d known this before I tried to starve myself to death.I wish I could have known how good and beautiful I was in spite of my mushroom-cut and big-rimmed plastic glasses.... by Emily Wierenga | May 30, 2012 | anorexia nervosa, art, book, chasing silhouettes, families, giveaway, hope, hungry, imperfect prose on thursdays, love, pre-order, starving
The nurses murmured to each other under fluorescent lighting as I lay shivering on the metal hospital bed, cold. Later, I would learn that they had marveled at my hypothermic, sixty-pound sack of bones, reasoning, “She should be dead.” I was a breach of science; a...