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Thu 28 Jan 2010 |
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Self-Help
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Written by Joanna Poppink
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| | If you have an eating disorder and you are out of work or your job has been downsized so much that you need an additional or better source of income, you may be frightened and taking on more personal blame than is yours. Your eating disorder symptoms, especially the distorted thinking and logic that accompanies any eating disorder, can impede your progress financially and in the job market itself.
Eating Disorder Symptoms That Hold You Back
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Today my first opportunity to speak from my heart online in a video about the realities of eating disorder recovery therapy is available for free at HealthyPlaceTV. The player is on the bottom half of the page.
Firsts are always a challenge. Dealing with the technology glitches and the patience called upon me when my scr screen read "stand by, technical difficulties" made glad for my own recovery work. I actually smiled to myself as I waited and wondered and repeated my intro. I thought of how, in the thick of my bulimia I could never have handled the situation.
Being in recovery and free not only of my eating disorder but also free of the need for it is such a pleasure. Instead of being anxious or frantic I felt even more confident and intent on giving adult women with eating disorders this information. I want them - you - to know what it's like to feel and be capable in this world under challenge.
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Fri 15 Jan 2010 |
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Symptoms
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Written by Joanna Poppink
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| | Sexual Exploiters and Vulnerable Women's Fantasies
Often in my practice a new patient comes in with a distorted perception of the sexual exploition in her life. She may have a stalker. She may have a boyfriend or husband who manipulates and uses her sexually. Sometimes she knows it and is afraid. Sometimes she knows it and feels ashamed she can't live up to his expectations.
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Sun 24 Jan 2010 |
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Self-Help
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Written by Joanna Poppink
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| | Once you start your path to eating disorder recovery, how can you keep going? What happens when your good intentions begin to slip away? How can you bring them back?
Eating disorder recovery, or recovery from disordered eating whatever form that takes, is not about finding and sticking to a diet. But the pattern of failure can be familiar as you lose momentum in your recovery work. To stay on your healing path you need
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| Desperate children look for safety in pro ana sites. It sounds strange to say that, I know, because they are helping each other kill themselves on a self destructive course of starvation. But they don't want to die. They want to be safe. They want to be free of their terrible fears and anxieties. And they believe that being so very light and slight that they are almost non existent is the ultimate place of safety.
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