Here’s a post about my recovery from orthorexia, taken from my Facebook page The Numbers Queen. Post updated 6 October 2025.
2019 Update – Thoughts on Asperger’s Syndrome, Anorexia & Psychic Ability
2018 Update – My Channel 7 Interview for World Eating Disorders Day
Miracle alert! I’m showing signs of early labour so headed to the shops for snacks. Thought I should buy a paper as a souvenir if Forrest turns up. Realised I was in today’s Sunday Mail! I spoke to the journalist (she’s a Master 33 lifepath – find your life path) about orthorexia a while back but wasn’t sure when the story would run.
They left out the trigger for my illness (grief over a breakup on 11/11/11) which is a shame as it wasn’t just because I studied nutrition. Plus my weight loss was a bit less than reported, and two friends helped me (Natalie Fitzpatrick, my acupuncturist and counselling mentor Caroline Byrd) not just one. But overall the article’s accurate.
I’ve noticed many sensitive/ psychic/ Starseed types have eating issues, especially in their teens (age 14-15 seems to be a turning point). I see this as the tipping point when the ‘anaesthetic wears off’ and we realise we have chosen a human body on a really complex planet!
I watched my weight from primary school, always wanting to be ‘thin and acceptable’. This worsened when my Dad left home while I was in high school. I was absorbing so much energy and didn’t know how to cleanse my aura or deal with feeling Spirit. Keeping secrets makes you dark inside. I lost my appetite because I was surrounded by so much fear. It was only when I embraced loving people and causes that I developed the will to recover. Read more on surviving bullying.
I hope this article brings hope to people who are struggling. I had to crash my car and go to a doctor for a suspected heart attack before I got help. My friend Caroline Byrd also had to ask me very sternly to get help!
Thank goodness for Caroline, my GP Dr Leanne Barron, counsellor Alison Lee and the team at Isis – The Eating Issues Centre Brisbane (links are below). If I can come back from the edge, anyone can!! SO many people I know with eating issues are leaders who are afraid to grow up and make mistakes (there can be a link with autism/ neurodiversity too). Once they let go of the need to control, everything blooms really quickly. My life is proof of this.
P.S. This was the picture that changed my life: Dr Barron drew it for me to explain what I was doing to my heart and my health. She said I looked relatively ok, but my internal organs could simply shut down if I kept depriving myself of nutrition. Similar to going down a waterfall or white water rapids. As soon as I saw this diagram, I knew I had to pull myself back from the edge.
Heartwork – Alison Lee was/ is my counsellor while I recovered from Anorexia/ Orthorexia. She’s an 11 lifepath like me. I figured this out after seeing 11:11 around her.
Doctor Leanne Barron is the wonderful doctor who helped me in Brisbane
Finding Spiritual Relief from Anorexia – A Metaphysical View The full story of my journey
I Eat Meat and I’m Spiritual. A Story about Iron, Eating Issues and Motherhood
The Spiritual Meaning of 9 Common Diseases (how depression can be the birth of a healer)
6 Myths About Meditation – Why it’s Easier Than Your Thinking
Happy 29/11! Starseeds, Numerology and the 11:11 Awakening Code
