You are not the first to make this journey. This journey has been happening since human beings stood on two legs and maybe earlier than that. After all, it was the life force that brought us up to stand.
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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Thanksgiving holiday is closely associated with family and food. If you have an eating disorder, being with both family and food means experiencing stress and anxiety levels that can push you into binge or purge or starve or high drama mode. So many expectations surround the holiday that unless you and your family are mentally healthy and emotionally stable disappointments can flare into painful situations. This year the economic downturn has placed disappointment, shock and fear into many homes. Stress levels
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Hope strategy based on pragmatic wisdom (Please read the article for wonderful details on the 15 principles.)
If you are working or struggling in recovery, please read this.
Change the story so that the opposing forces are your internal forces insisting that you maintain your unwanted behaviors and insisting that you are worthless. Then, look at the other forces, your internal forces that want health and recovery.
Especially look at your internal forces that are not engaged, are weak or dismissive or in denial. Then the strategies and support in this article can help you realign your internal world and move you toward the healthy revolution you need for a much better and healthier life.
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Coping with feelings as holidays end
If you have or had an eating disorder, January can be difficult emotional territory. The promises of the new year and the activities of the holidays fade. Coping with feelings can be difficult when days are the usual Monday through Friday with a week-end attached, just like before.The hope for sudden and lasting change fragments. If you were happy during the holidays you hoped it would set a new trend for your everyday life. If you were sad and lonely during the holidays you hoped that you would start a new way of living that would bring in more friendship and community.
- Healing Power of Psychotherapy Rests in Harmony
- Eating Disorder Self Care in the New Year: Start at any time
- Eating Disorder Recovery Challenge: anesthesia or genuine human experience?
- Eating Disorder Paradox of Body Obsession and Body Denial
- Were You Alone and Binge Eating at Christmas? How to Ground Yourself.
- Eating Disorder Slip over the Holidays: find meaning and recovery
- Seven Ways to Avoid a Binge in Eating Disorder Recovery
- Garden lessons for eating disorder recovery
- Opinion: Looking at the Missing Pieces of Residential Eating Disorder Treatment Programs
- Dare to find your soul to recover from your eating disorder
