The Lying Mirror: A Young Girl's Battle with Anorexia by Hope De La Cruz (Englis

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It dominates your thoughts, it determines your actions, it demands your attention, it dictates your emotions. What is it? Food. Imagine a life where every day, the thought of food consumes your mind. When you eat, what you eat, how much you eat, who you eat with, where you will eat, it’s always on your mind. Imagine a life where the more you seek control, the more out of control things become and the less control you actually have. Imagine a life where snakes, spiders, or heights are not your biggest fear but eating, gaining weight, mirrors, and scales are your biggest fears. To many people struggling with eating disorders, this life is reality. This life where every waking moment your thoughts turn to food, and your constant worry is that you are fat or gaining weight. The following is a memoir of a young girl’s journey as she struggles to overcome the battle against anorexia. The following is a memoir about how a young girl turns from controlling what she eats to be controlled BY what she eats and her journey to give that control over to God, to find her identity in Him, to find satisfaction in the way He made her. Join this young girl as she tells her story about her struggles, fears, and addiction with food and how friends, family, and most importantly God, helped her turn from that path of destruction to the path of healing, recovery, and restoration. The journey is not easy and the path is not smooth, but please join her as she shares her encounters on her journey and shows how God helped to transform her mind from one that believed the lies portrayed in the lying mirror to one that rests in the Truth.

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It dominates your thoughts, it determines your actions, it demands your attention, it dictates your emotions. What is it? Food. Imagine a life where every day, the thought of food consumes your mind. When you eat, what you eat, how much you eat, who you eat with, where you will eat, it's always on your mind. Imagine a life where the more you seek control, the more out of control things become and the less control you actually have. Imagine a life where snakes, spiders, or heights are not your biggest fear but eating, gaining weight, mirrors, and scales are your biggest fears. To many people struggling with eating disorders, this life is reality. This life where every waking moment your thoughts turn to food, and your constant worry is that you are fat or gaining weight. The following is a memoir of a young girl's journey as she struggles to overcome the battle against anorexia. The following is a memoir about how a young girl turns from controlling what she eats to be controlled BY what she eats and her journey to give that control over to God, to find her identity in Him, to find satisfaction in the way He made her. Join this young girl as she tells her story about her struggles, fears, and addiction with food and how friends, family, and most importantly God, helped her turn from that path of destruction to the path of healing, recovery, and restoration. The journey is not easy and the path is not smooth, but please join her as she shares her encounters on her journey and shows how God helped to transform her mind from one that believed the lies portrayed in the lying mirror to one that rests in the Truth.

Excerpt from Book

They say mirrors never lie. Simply ask the Queen from Snow White. When asked "Who''s the fairest of them all," the mirror had no other choice but to answer, "Snow White". As devastating as the news was for the wicked Queen, the mirror had to tell her the truth. Now I know this is just a fairy tale, but it is true in real life as well: mirrors simply tell you what''s there. Take, for example, when you wake up in the morning very tired. You look in the mirror and see you have droopy and puffy eye-lids. The mirror doesn''t hide the tired look on your face that people always seem to comment on. Or think about after a woman has been crying and her mascara begins to run all along her face and down her cheeks. As much as she wishes the mirror would show something different, it confirms the fact that she looks like a raccoon stuck in a downpour. Or what about when you attempt to cut your own hair and the mirror simply relays the fact that you failed miserably as little pieces of hair stick out from all ends and uneven layers of hair fall around your neck. Mirrors'' jobs are simply to reflect what is there, sad as the truth may be. But do all mirrors tell the truth all the time? I have come to the realization that the answer is a resounding NO! This became clear when I was in 5th grade. As a young girl, I stared in the mirror and saw a "normal" if not slightly overweight figure staring back at me. I did not see the bones sticking out of my shoulder blades or the outline of my ribs as they protruded from my chest. Nor did I see the gaunt face staring back at me. Sure, I noticed my pants becoming looser on me as pants that used to be too tight now fell down without a belt. But the mirror told me I was fat, and I always believed mirrors told the truth. I failed to listen to those around me who said I was too thin and needed to eat more. It was right in front of me, plain as day: the mirror told me I was fat, and I chose to believe it and ignore the warnings from those who loved me. After all, people lie all the time. How could I be sure they were telling me the truth? No, mirrors simply reflect what''s in front of you and I had to believe them--or so I thought. But what about those mirrors at fun parks? You know the ones where you look in and see yourself five times taller than normal, five times fatter, all stretched out every which way? Are those mirrors telling the truth? Obviously not. What about side mirrors on cars? It states right on them: "Objects in mirror are closer than they appear." This is yet another example of a mirror distorting the truth. So maybe mirrors don''t always tell the truth. I know that now, even though it is still hard to believe at times, but I didn''t know it back then--back when I had only heard briefly about eating disorders and didn''t really know what they were. Back when I didn''t know the risks involved with extreme "dieting". Back when eating was not a huge ordeal and food did not consume my thoughts. Back before the things I desired most were complete opposites of each other: wanting to stay thin yet knowing I needed to gain weight. Back when I was "normal"--before my life was changed forever. The following memoir is a glimpse into the life of a young girl struggling with anorexia--the thoughts, the actions, the beliefs, and the struggles. MY life with anorexia, MY thoughts, MY actions, MY beliefs, and MY struggles. It has not been an easy road, and though I''ve left the path I was once on, memories of that path still haunt me daily. Disturbing thoughts still taunt me and threaten to bring me back to that path. But with the help of friends and family, I''m determined not to return to that path that is so familiar to me. And in my battle to keep on the new path on which I''ve decided to travel, I write this in hopes of helping outsiders gain an understanding of what eating disorder victims go through--and yes, I say victims because that is what we are. Victims of all-consuming thoughts, of lies, of conflicting desires: desires to get better yet desires to stay thin, desires to lose our identity as the thin one, the one with anorexia, yet desires to maintain that identity for fear of losing who we are. My hope is also to encourage those struggling with eating disorders that there is a way out. Relief can be found. It is not easy by any means--it is a daily struggle--but it is possible. Elie Wiesel once said: "Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty." And this is why I tell my story.

Details ISBN149089697X Pages 104 Language English ISBN-10 149089697X ISBN-13 9781490896977 Media Book Format Paperback Short Title LYING MIRROR Year 2015 Subtitle A Young Girl's Battle with Anorexia Country of Publication United States Publication Date 2015-10-22 Illustrations Illustrations, black and white UK Release Date 2015-10-22 Place of Publication Nashville, TN AU Release Date 2015-10-22 NZ Release Date 2015-10-22 US Release Date 2015-10-22 Imprint WestBow Press Author Hope De La Cruz Publisher WestBow Press Audience General We've got this

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