--- 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-23 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-23. markdown-tokens: 970 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/page-23. 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/) I believe in what I'm doing - providing genuine methods to heal from eating disorders that honor the individual. As I do my psychotherapy work, and outreach to let others know of my work, I discover new obstacles to recovery. My challenge is to break free from my traditional ways of speaking and writing. I need to go more to the core - not the core of the eating disorder - but the core of the obstacles that prevent people from getting on their recovery path. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/obstacles-to-eating-disorder-recovery) Details Category: [Psychotherapy and Recovery Work](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/) ![Perspective on Eating Disorder Recovery and Relapse](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/waveSpain_Canarias_Ajuy.jpg) **Meaning of "Fully Recovered" from an eating disorder** A thirty-three year old man wrote to me saying he had been a binge eater most of his life and now was fully recovered. Food has been a non issue for two years. Of course, I am glad he is happy with the strides he has made in his life. But his post got me to thinking about what recovery means. I have been working since 1980 with people who have and who have had eating disorders. People have many different attitudes and definitions of being fully recovered. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/perspectives-on-eating-disorder-recovery-and-relapse) Details Category: [Psychotherapy and Recovery Work](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/) ![Lower Antelope Canyon 478](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/Lower_Antelope_Canyon_478.jpg)Recovery work involves developing your mind, heart, body and soul from a fragile and insubstantial state to a more mature and capable condition that is your authentic you.You can heal your way, develop your way, grow your way out of an eating disorder. Solid recovery from an eating disorder is not about fighting the disorder and winning. That gives an incorrect impression that you remain the same and the eating disorder leaves. Solid recovery occurs when you no longer need your eating disorder to cope with the stresses and challenges in your life now or in the future. \* pix The New York Times, in the April 25, 2011 issues, ran a [pessimistic article](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/health/26anorexia.html?_r=1&ref=health) that risks leaving readers with the idea that you cannot recover [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/yes-you-can-recover-from-and-eating-disorder)