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Thursday, 10 November 2011 22:37 |
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I just got my heart broken again. A young girl wanted to connect with me on Facebook. When I got the request and saw that young sweet face I wrote, asking her age.
She told me she was 12 and worried about her mother. Her mother has an eating disorder, will not accept help, and cries a lot.
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Sunday, 03 July 2011 14:42 |
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Caring for your bones can lead you to strengthening other neglected aspects of your life. This post is about the surprising benefits you receive when you tend to your infrastructure.
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Sunday, 09 January 2011 12:44 |
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Nina, the ballerina in the Black Swan, believes that people who attempt or threaten to interfere with her distorted thinking are dangerous to herself and her goals. She is as merciless with them as she is with herself. She doesn’t perceive the emotional consequences to others her behavior causes. If she gets a glimmer of pain she
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Monday, 16 August 2010 09:27 |
This heartbreaking question comes in often: "How can I help someone I love, my sister, my friend, recover from an eating disorder?
Some suggestions:
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Wednesday, 14 July 2010 14:29 |
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Suffering from an eating disorder is a lonely business. You have to pretend to be happy, competent and fine without letting the people around you know your desperation. Yes, when you come right down to it, just about every action that stems from an eating disorder is an act of desperation. The binge, restriction, denial, purge, starvation, exercise, controlling behaviors - these are all unhappy and desperate activities that you try to keep secret. When you have so many secrets
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Sunday, 25 September 2011 09:18 |
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Here is a real family Sunday morning breakfast story that happened just a few hours ago. Please read it for fun and to see areas that could be problems or disasters or eating disorder triggers for you. See the quiz questions at the end.
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Tuesday, 14 June 2011 23:05 |
Crazy Colleen at morningquickie.com wrote an article, Those Crazy Women: Eating Disorders. She shares important information that needs to fall like rain until everyone is saturated with the reality of eating disorders and the toll they take on millions of people. She concludes with a a resounding call for women to help women. How will you answer her call?
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Tuesday, 26 October 2010 20:25 |
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Seek out people who inspire you, people you can learn from. Discover the joy of moving through life with people who are your teachers and friends. Discover the joy of being appreciated for what you teach by being your honest and natural self.
An eating disorder can isolate you in a way that you recognize. You remove yourself from other people and spend much time alone in hiding.
But an eating disorder can isolate you in ways that you may not recognize.
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Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:55 |
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I spoke with a father this week who told me his daughter, 35 years old, no longer threw up but still had compulsive thought patterns and feelings of shame. He said the first he and his wife knew their daughter had a problem was when a friend of her confided to them that their daughter, then 20 years old, was suicidal. I was so moved by this man's story, especially when he thanked me, with tears in his eyes, because it was the first time he spoke about his feelings about his daughter's trials.
The question that comes up is, why would a loving parent who saw his child every day not notice
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Saturday, 03 April 2010 11:43 |
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Recently "I" wrote me about her friend "C". "C" is in her twenties and a brilliant athlete. But "C" suffered from anorexia so severely that she required several hospitalizations. She can't perform or even coach because it triggers her anorexia. She has no family support. Quite the contrary. Her family rejected her because of her sexual orientation.
Once in a while she does perform, leaving the audience dazzled at the beauty and grace of her excellence. But her actions, despite their beauty, trigger her and she falls into emotional devastation. What, asks, "I," as her friend, can I do or say?
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