Don’t Let Your Slip Turn Into a Slide

Don’t let your addictions control your future.

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DISCLAIMER: The following article discusses bulimia and nicotine addiction.

Slips are totally normal. When you have a slip, it’s just that. A slip. It doesn’t define you. It doesn’t make you a failure. The most important thing is that you don’t let that slip become a slide. — Jennette McCurdy

In her best-selling memoir, I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette McCurdy offers many valuable pieces of advice and candid moments.

I don’t want to spoil the book too much because I HIGHLY recommend, so I won’t go too much into detail. However, throughout the book McCurdy details her lifelong battle with bulimia.

Throughout the memoir, she battles with binge eating to process her emotions and later feeling the need to purge. Body dysmorphia and anorexia had been lifelong issues for her and she never truly tried to confront these issues in a meaningful way until she started attending therapy.

The moment that she finally starts to improve upon these habits is when she’s offered the advice to not let her slip become a slide.

This news is groundbreaking for her because up until that point she believed that her bulimia defined her. Her eating disorders were a part of her…