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Joanna Poppink MFT, offers personalized eating disorder recovery therapy for women.  She created this site. Joanna is a Los Angeles psychotherapist, speaker and author of Healing Your Hungry Heart.  She specializes in eating disorder recovery for adult women and building a fulfilling life beyond recovery.

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Mother's Day: building bridges for understanding

Baby Nest machinery Oil on canvas. SurrealismWhere were you born? I mean specifically. Were you born in a bed, in a hospital, a private home or a boat? 

Perhaps in a taxi? Maybe you were born on a blanket on the ground. Was it quiet or noisy around you?

Was it a safe place or was danger lurking or exploding?  

Where did you go after you were born? Who was around you? What was your nest? 

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Lies Dissolve in Recovery

Truth246px-Truth La Vérité 1870 by Jules Lefebvre*La Vérité - Liars don't like to be exposed.

Let's look at the conditioning that makes you vulnerable to lies and learn to uphold your authentic reality.

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If you do you may. If you don't you won't

Pinocchio paradox cropped for EDREven before you give up dieting, please give up promises that offer quick results with little or no effort.

Diets are just one in a plethora of "get rich quick" or "get benefits quick" ploys that take your money while making money for others. The key to surviving this onslaught is in your ability to recognize liars.

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More About Dread: Signals

The Emotion Thesaurus: a writer's guide to character expression, arrived in my mailbox today. I unwrapped the package over my desk. The book fell out and opened to the Dread page.  Mmm. We've been talking about this emotion since I published a Dread article on this blog.  

So, I thought it might be helpful for you to discover see how some of these dread descriptions might relate to you.  

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