--- 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-14 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-14. markdown-tokens: 968 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/page-14. 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/) ![conversation 400590 480](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/conversation-400590__480.jpg) 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. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/more-and-better-friendships-in-2017) Details Category: [Psychotherapy and Recovery Work](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/) ![yellow rose with insect](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/yellow_rose_with_insect.jpg) 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. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/what-s-soul-got-to-do-with-psychotherapy) Details Category: [Psychotherapy and Recovery Work](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/) [![gorge 1081998 640](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/gorge-1081998_640.jpg)](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/gorge-1081998_640.jpg) 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. [ 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-five) Details Category: [Psychotherapy and Recovery Work](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/) 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 [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/family-thanksgiving-dinner-two-coping-strategies)