Eating Disorder Recovery
Joanna Poppink, MFT
Eating Disorder Recovery Psychotherapist
serving Arizona, California, Florida, Oregon and Utah.
All appointments are virtual.

- Welcome -

If you suffer from an eating disorder now or have in the past, please email Joanna for a free telephone consultation.
 joanna@poppink.com

Psychotherapy and eating disorder recovery work take many forms. In this extensive grouping you'll find articles, links and discussions that include stories of individuals working through their healing process and descriptions of different treatment approaches.  Issues include trust, bingeing, starving, sexuality, fear, anxiety, triumphs, abuse, shame, dream work, journal keeping and more. Discussions regarding insurance and finances are here as well.  Reading these articles and participating in discussions will give you deep and varied windows into eating disorder recovery treatment.

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People can find their stable base from which to take this journey in many ways.

Leonardo DaVinci found his base in nature, as do many who can see through life forms to the metaphors and actions of natural life force. Ray Bradbury found his base in libraries, as do many who discover the people and perspectives from

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Your emotional waves are rolling in, but what is the shore you seek? If your life looks good, great or enviable to others, who can you trust with your vulnerabilities and secrets?

You don’t want to take medication. You don’t want to be told what to do. You don’t want to isolate, or use food, drugs or alcohol to soothe yourself.  Yet, you know your spirit cries out for something. You need help and hope help exists. 

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Psychotherapy is personal and private. Yet we also need companionship and friendship for healing our eating disorders and our lives. Let's communicate better with each other. Let's heal wounds that maintain rifts between one another and befriend people we thought we could never befriend. 

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Living with an eating disorder or the remnants of an old eating disorder is living a lonely life. You can’t be your true self with anyone in order to create a deep and rich relationship. You don’t even know who you. You feel inadequate. You often feel you are an imposter. You are certain you must please others or take care of them in order to be okay yourself.

What is in you that supports your true self and allows you to be free? Even asking this question can be a revolution in your thinking.

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  1. Action for Your Authentic Life in Six Steps (Step Three may be the most difficult) Step Five
  2. Eating Disorder and Family Thanksgiving Dinner: Coping Strategies
  3. Eating Disorder Recovery Wisdom from Green Peace
  4. Eating Disorders and Coping with Feelings after New Years
  5. Healing Power of Psychotherapy Rests in Harmony
  6. Eating Disorder Self Care in the New Year: Start at any time
  7. Eating Disorder Recovery Challenge: anesthesia or genuine human experience?
  8. Eating Disorder Paradox of Body Obsession and Body Denial
  9. Were you alone and binge eating at Christmas? How to ground yourself.
  10. Eating Disorder Slip over the Holidays: find meaning and recovery

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