What impressed me most as I progressed through treatment was how nurturing and supportive the treatment environment was.  The girls/women in treatment, therapists, nutritionists and administrative staff were so kind and warm.  They truly wanted the best for me and I knew it because it was palpable…I actually felt it radiating from each person.  One talented young woman wrote me the most beautiful poem just because I was feeling “down” during treatment one day.  It was awe-inspiring and I wonder if she knows that I read it everyday and that it touches me just as much now as it did the first time I read it?

I realized that my work environment was the opposite and that awareness prompted the beginning of the end of my career as I knew it.