Welcome to Joanna Poppink’s Healing Library for Midlife Women
Psychotherapy insights, tools, and support for your journey
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.
UNDERSTANDING BINGE URGES IN RECOVERY
SUMMARY
Binge urges are not signs of weakness or failure. They are signals that internal pressure has exceeded available support. Understanding binge urges in recovery allows change to happen earlier, before behavior becomes the only form of relief.
This article was originally written to address ways people try to avoid binge behavior. It has been revised to reflect a deeper understanding of binge urges in recovery.
BINGE URGES ARE SIGNALS, NOT FAILURES
A kind of circle develops between my patients, my garden and me where we share and appreciate the giving and receiving that is happening naturally for the benefit of all of us.
*pix View from my office window. Patient waiting area is to the right in the shaded area not visible.
Functioning in the world without an eating disorder can be just as daunting as functioning on the moon. Both require new learning and practice.
In social media, where people with eating disorders call out to each other, look for support, try to find recovery, and give warnings to others about what treatment didn't work, the shared pain, fear, and frustration are clear.
If you haven't asked yourself yet you will be asking yourself eventually, "What is the meaning of life?"We have 345 guests and no members online
