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      Details    Category: [Dreams](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/dreams/)  [![Keep a Dream Journal to Speed Eating Disorder Recovery](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/best_G299-Remnants-SuperNova-Type1a-20150218_1.jpg)](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/best_G299-Remnants-SuperNova-Type1a-20150218_1.jpg)*Your dream images can help your awareness explode like a blooming fire and lead you into recovery with newly released energy.*

## Dream Journal Value

Keeping a written record of your dreams is often part of eating disorder recovery work. Clients do it dutifully, resentfully, awkwardly, and enthusiastically. They forget to do it.

They can't do it because they can't remember their dreams. They are embarrassed to do it because the dreams are embarrassing. Or they refuse to do it because the dreams are frightening. Yet, any of these experiences add value to the recovery process.

 

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   Details    Category: [Dreams](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/dreams/)  “Dreams” is the title of the seminar I’ll be taking this weekend in Santa Barbara with [Marion Woodman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Woodman) ([a talk](https://www.feminist.com/resources/artspeech/genwom/conscious.html)) and [Steve Aizenstat](https://www.dreamtending.com/about.html).

**Integration:** Integrating a person’s inner life with her outer life in harmony and health has long been crucial, in my experience, for achieving eating disorder recovery. Regardless of the specific diagnosis: bulimia, anorexia, binge eating, compulsive-overeating – and all the possible associated behaviors, like cutting, shoplifting, over-exercising, over-scheduling, under-achieving, abusive and exploiting relationships greatly benefit from developing a healthy integration between mind, feelings and body.

 

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