--- title: Self-Help description: Series of articles and discussions that support and guide you to help yourself heal and prosper. canonical_url: https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/self-help/page-17 language: en-GB date: 2012-09-11T05:35:08Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/self-help/page-17. markdown-tokens: 927 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/self-help/page-17. 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. 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/) ![timeandspace](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/timeandspace.jpg) I found a sentence in my inspirational reading today that let a fresh breeze waft through my mind and heart. All the other sentences were nice enough, even profound at times and thought provoking often. But this one rose like a clear breath of sweet wisdom that gave me comfort, reassurance, friendship and warmth. Maybe it will be significant for you too. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/self-help/eating-disorder-recovery-inspiration-and-challenge) Details Category: [Self-Help](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/self-help/) ![back_view_of_woman_standing](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/back_view_of_woman_standing.jpg)"How do I begin recovery from an eating disorder?" That question haunts women's hearts and minds. Letters, e-mails, tweets, blogs, discussion groups and forums are filled with bewildered voices in pain struggling to know how to end their eating disorder way of living. If you are asking this question you know the answer is [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/self-help/how-do-i-start-recovery-take-the-first-step-from-here) Details Category: [Self-Help](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/self-help/) Here's a bit of laughter and joy I found this morning in a tweet from [Girlfriendology](http://girlfriendology.com/). Enjoy! *[http://www.bottleband.org](http://www.bottleband.org/ "http://www.bottleband.org") Performance by the St. Luke's Bottle Band, St. Luke's Lutheran Church, Park Ridge, Illinois, May 6, 2007.* Friends are people with different minds, hearts and souls than you. They can introduce new perspectives, opportunities and ways of doing things just by being your friends and sharing their lives with you. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/self-help/being-your-own-best-friend-means-more-freedom-and-laughter) Details Category: [Self-Help](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/self-help/) [![blwhcatfriends3353444517_8c11103632](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/blwhcatfriends3353444517_8c11103632.jpg)](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/blwhcatfriends3353444517_8c11103632.jpg "friendship") If you have an eating disorder you often feel at war with yourself. Everything seems black or white, good or bad including yourself. This doesn't have to be so. Resisting eating disorder urges and cravings becomes a moral issue. You judge yourself good if you resist and bad if you succumb. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/self-help/being-your-own-best-friend)