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 Self help activities support your recovery and help you expand your awareness, develop life skills, develop self acceptance and self appreciation, develop new relationships and equip you to live a life with more competence and joy. Here you will find articles that show you many ways of providing yourself with self help exercises and activities to enrich your life and articles that help you understand your own thinking and emotional process. Topics include: friendships, self-esteem, dreams, binges, relapse, yoga, secrets, check lists, writing, dream journals, gardening, education and career opportunities and more.

   Details    Category: [Self-Help](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/self-help/)  ![Colorado Waldo Canyon Fire Image 19 of 24 2](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/Colorado_Waldo_Canyon_Fire_Image_19_of_24_2.jpg)If you have an eating disorder, if you suffer from anorexia or bulimia, if you have a history of abuse, please be careful about exposing yourself to brutality. Be aware of the danger for you, in life certainly, and in videos, photos and films that depitc brutal actions.

\*pix *This woman has the skill, courage and training to meet and subdue the fire. You can learn to cope with the fires in your life that were beyond your power in the past iff you give yourself the time, attention and practice, First you need to honor your present limits.*



 

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   Details    Category: [Self-Help](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/self-help/)  ![Whispers_in_the_wind_copy](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/Whispers_in_the_wind_copy.jpg)Recognizing when you are crossing a new threshold in your life is part of eating disorder recovery. Without recovery you remain in the grip of an eating disorder dominated consciousness. Concerns about weight and body appearance, obsessions about eating or not eating grasp your mind, heart and soul with such tenacity that opportunity for change or change itself may flow around you unrecognized.

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