Here you can find articles that may answer your questions and support you in your personal recovery work.
You'll also find a series of inspirations and affirmation that may help you stay on your healing path. Please remember, helping yourself does not mean going it alone. Helping yourself means discovering what what you can do to support your own recovery. That includes how to recognize opportunity and reach out to people as well as books, websites and classes, who are in a position to offer you genuine recovery help on your journey to healing.
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When you are acting out your eating disorder, you eat whatever will knock out feelings you don't want to have or simply cannot bear. You know what the binge foods are that do the job for you. And you know the consequences you experience later.
But what do you eat
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 21 April 2010 22:54 |
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People calll and write me, sharing their pain, hope and frustration as they look for a way out of an eating disorder and into a life of freedom. In looking for various structures that can help them see where they are in their eating disorder experience I came upon the basic and familiar outline of a classic play. A classic play consists of Act I, Act II, Act III. See if you can find where you are in this design.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 21 April 2010 23:19 |
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You are really searching for information now. You are checking out self help manuals, exploring affirmations, reading the symptoms of eating disorders, scaring yourself with medical information on the consequences of obesity, starvation and purging, lurking on eating disorder discussion lists, writing notes and information requests to online authors and psychotherapists.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 02 May 2009 07:34 |
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Perhaps the biggest challenge confronting people in recovery from eating disorders is their own humanity. Whatever strengths, frailties and personal
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 21 April 2010 23:07 |
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What happens to anorexic teenagers when they become anorexic young women?
In their twenties many fall in love, get married and try to build a life with their husbands just like other young women. The difference is that the anorexic young woman has anorexic thinking and feeling influencing every decision and action in her life. She is often very afraid.
Most people in their mid-twenties go through a kind of developmental shock as they are confronted by new and different kinds of personal challenges in their lives. The woman is only recently no longer a young girl. She has new responsibilities to understand and shoulder. She discovers that people are placing new and often reasonable expectations on her.
Whether she accepts those expectations or not, she still has to deal with them. This is a stressful time for any young woman, but particularly so for an anorexic young woman. She can feel angry, frightened and overwhelmed.
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