Friends change as you heal and mature. Being in harmony with your true self attracts new and more healthy relationships. *

When you have an eating disorder friends who are attracted to you are attracted to who you are and how you respond with your eating disorder intact. Friend change as you change throughout your recovery work.

How you and your friends change as you recover

When you are deep in your eating disorder your friends and associates have a relationship with a sick person.  When you start to get well your attitudes, choices and responses change. Your friends' responses will change too.

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 forces. Ray Bradbury found his base in libraries, as do many who discover the people and perspectives from across time who wrote and filled the books that bring us worlds we never dreamed of on our own. We recognize them when we find them.

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Support Your Binge Eating Recovery

If you binge eat, you can use this New Year's time of new beginnings, fresh starts, and New Year’s resolutions to renew your commitment to recovery. But please be aware of the different kinds of resolutions.

The best resolutions you can choose are those that support your healthy way of living and add energy to your life. Be wary of resolutions that trigger slips or major eating disorder acting out. Here are some examples of both.

New Year’s Resolutions for Eating Disorder Recovery Support

Here are examples of New Year’s Resolutions for recovery support. These resolutions involve activities that weaken the need to binge.

I resolve to:

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.