--- title: Psychotherapy and Recovery Work description: Stories and discussions about the process and experience of eating disorder recovery treatment. canonical_url: https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/page-13 language: en-GB date: 2012-09-11T05:13:52Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/page-13. markdown-tokens: 1175 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/page-13. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. 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. Details Category: [Psychotherapy and Recovery Work](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/) [![horizontal 1452536 640](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/horizontal-1452536_640.png)](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/horizontal-1452536_640.png)*Prepare a stable base for when you inevitably lose your balance. You will regroup in a new and more solid way.* Now, you take on the task of working through the polarized tensions in yourself to evolve out of the status quo and into your more developed life. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/action-for-your-authentic-life-in-six-steps-step-three-may-be-the-most-difficult-step-four) Details Category: [Psychotherapy and Recovery Work](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/) ![Eating Disorder Recovery Experience: losing and making friends](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/412px-Harmonie_der_Geschöpfe_.jpg)*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. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/friends-change-as-you-heal-in-eating-disorder-recovery) Details Category: [Psychotherapy and Recovery Work](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/) [![anchor 661991 640](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/anchor-661991_640.jpg)](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/anchor-661991_640.jpg)*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. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/action-for-your-authentic-life-in-six-steps-step-three-may-be-the-most-difficult-step-six) Details Category: [Psychotherapy and Recovery Work](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/) [![](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/new-year-resolution-5859760_640.jpg)](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/new-year-resolution-5859760_640.jpg)*Good Goals or Binge Eating Triggers? The Importance of a Clarity Check!* ## 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: [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/good-or-triggering-a-clarity-check)