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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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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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.

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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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  1. Fifteen Principles for Eating Disorder Recovery
  2. Eating Disorders and Coping with Feelings after New Years
  3. Healing Power of Psychotherapy Rests in Harmony
  4. Eating Disorder Self Care in the New Year: Start at any time
  5. Eating Disorder Recovery Challenge: anesthesia or genuine human experience?
  6. Eating Disorder Paradox of Body Obsession and Body Denial
  7. Were You Alone and Binge Eating at Christmas? How to Ground Yourself.
  8. Eating Disorder Slip over the Holidays: find meaning and recovery
  9. Understanding Binge Urges in Recovery
  10. Garden lessons for eating disorder recovery

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