KC Tillman, Bryn Tillman Ascending the Fourteener of Recovery

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When KC Tillman gave birth in 2000, she never imagined that her precious bundle of joy would become embroiled in a fight for her life just sixteen years later. Bryn Tillman grew up setting impossibly high expectations for herself that produced feelings of inadequacy, imperfection, and failure. She mistakenly believed that everyone else also hated their reflection in the mirror and constantly strived to be a better physical being like she did. Little did Bryn know how wrong she was. In a candid retelling, KC and Bryn detail their two-year battle with anorexia nervosa to offer hope and inspiration to others embarking on their own arduous, ever-changing path to healing. As mother and daughter lead others into their descent into the hellacious trenches of a mental disorder with the highest mortality rates, KC reveals how she stopped at nothing to find help and save her daughter's life. Bryn discloses how the power of her mind first guided her into the darkness of an unhealthy relationship with food, and then led her out into the light of recovery. Ascending the Fourteener of Recovery is the moving story of a teenager's battle with anorexia and her mother's tenacity in beating it while holding on tightly to hope.