May 2012
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Information for the 6/14 performance of my...
Caroline Rothstein’s honest, poetic, and breathtaking solo play about her gut-wrenching struggle to cope with the expectations and turmoil of coming of age. Written and performed by Caroline Rothstein Directed by Alex Mallory Presented by Poetic Theater Productions  Part of the 2012 Planet Connections Theatre Festivity  “Me, drowning in my flannel pajama pants, searching for a...
May 16th
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May 16th
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May 15th
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May 15th
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ED recovery affirmations →
May 14th
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May 14th
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A Real Girl, 14, Takes a Stand Against the... →
May 13th
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“Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable...”
– carl jung (via theartofhiding)
May 13th
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May 10th
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May 8th
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May 8th
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"Eating Disorders And The Executive Woman" - from... →
May 6th
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Honesty helps heal an eating disorder →
Grateful to the amazing and talented journalist Becky Lerner for giving me the opportunity to share my recovery story with her, as published here in Echo Magazine! 
May 4th
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Anatomy of Recovery: Be Gentle with Your Pain →
anatomy-of-recovery: 1. In the past, you may have coped with pain by hurting yourself, which gave you some relief from your agony. 2. Instead, promise that you will treat yourself with tenderness. Promise yourself that you will unconditionally accept exactly where you are in your process. Do not numb yourself…
May 3rd
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The Real 30 Things Women/Womyn Should Have and... →
May 1st
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April 2012
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My response to the HuffPo article "Turning 30: 30...
By Caroline Rothstein (After originally posting here on Tumblr, this piece was then published on April 30, 2012 in the Huffington Post)  I am 28-year-old white, heterosexual woman from an upper-middle class upbringing. This Glamour list, recently republished in the Huffington Post in an article called “Turning 30: 30 Things Every Woman Should Have and Should Know,” was clearly...
Apr 27th
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Recovery is Beautiful: Dealing With Insurance... →
ED treatment is expensive, so your insurance company wants to avoid paying for treatment if it can. The Anna Westin Foundation has some excellent info on the tricks that insurance companies use, and how you can beat them at their own game. ANAD (Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders)…
Apr 25th
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Apr 21st
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Attention artists interested in ED... →
Hi everyone! An artist and NEDA volunteer asked me to pass this around. It’s a survey NEDA is conducting regarding arts as tool for ED recovery, prevention, and awareness.  Below the message from the top of the survey.  Please participate, spread the word, and pass the link along! Thanks! “National Eating Disorders Association/ARTIST INITIATIVE The National Eating Disorders...
Apr 11th
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Apr 11th
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"Ashley Judd Slaps Media in the Face for... →
Apr 10th
Mother Speaks Out After Losing Daughter To Bulimia →
Apr 6th
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Apr 2nd
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March 2012
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Mar 31st
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Mar 31st
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WCS Spotlight for my play "faith!"  →
Mar 30th
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Why I make art about eating disorders and...
My new one-woman play “faith” is an autobiographical account of my experience with a decade-long eating disorder, followed by the seven years since in which I have been recovered. It is so deeply personal, so raw, so vulnerable, and so dear to my heart and passion as both an artist and activist. Every day I rehearse this play, I relive the emotions and pain of my eating disorder. I...
Mar 29th
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Mar 27th
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Mujer, Interrumpida...: Trayvon... →
latinegro: As I write my next blog for the Huffington Post, I feel obligated to say how angry I am becoming. There are so many things that I am seeing and reading about this Trayon Martin tragedy that it just makes me sick. This whole situation where George (Jorge) Zimmerman has not seen… I must reblog this. Racism is a body image issue. Racism is body disempowerment - its affects and...
Mar 27th
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“That’s when the chills come, waves of cool down your arms telling you...”
– excerpt from Caroline Rothstein’s one-woman play “faith,” April 3 & 4 at the Living Theatre in NYC
Mar 27th
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“Sometimes, I wish I could go back in time and hug the starving 11-year-old girl...”
– excerpt from Caroline Rothstein’s one-woman play “faith,” April 3 & 4 at the Living Theatre in NYC 
Mar 26th
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“But an eating disorder has nothing to do with weight. It’s a mental illness. A...”
– excerpt from Caroline Rothstein’s one-woman play “faith,” April 3 & 4 at the Living Theatre in NYC
Mar 26th
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Adrian Piper. Amazing.  →
Mar 23rd
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“A lot has changed since the mid-90s. We now know that eating disorders are...”
– Excerpt from Caroline Rothstein’s one-woman play “faith”
Mar 23rd
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Israel banning too thin models →
Mar 21st
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Mar 19th
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Mar 16th
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Gratitude.
That is all. 
Mar 16th
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“For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language...”
–  Audre Lorde
Mar 15th
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Mar 15th
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☯: 100 Benefits of Meditation  →
positivelivingchannel: Physiological benefits: 1- It lowers oxygen consumption. 2- It decreases respiratory rate. 3- It increases blood flow and slows the heart rate. 4- Increases exercise tolerance. 5- Leads to a deeper level of physical relaxation. 6- Good for people with high blood pressure. 7- Reduces anxiety…
Mar 15th
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I think people forget that health means your...
PREACH!!! That’s why “mental health days” are SO legit!!! And why therapy should ALWAYS be covered by insurance!!! Let’s go!!! 
Mar 14th
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Eating disorders are not a stand-up comedy...
Last night, I had the opportunity to showcase an excerpt of my new one-woman play “faith” as part of Poetic Theater Production’s spring season preview March4Word. The play is a chronological, nonfiction, and autobiographical account of my experience with and recovery from a decade-long eating disorder. The scene I performed at March4Word is about a “near relapse”...
Mar 13th
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Mar 12th
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Mar 7th
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"faith" by Caroline Rothstein needs your support!
Dear family, friends, YouTube subscribers, Tumblr followers, and more! I am writing to let you know about an upcoming production of “faith,” my brand new one-woman play. Through monologue and poetry, “faith” is about my experience with and recovery from a decade-long eating disorder. Directed by Alex Mallory and co-presented by Poetic Theater Productions, I will be performing “faith” on April 3...
Mar 7th
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