--- 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-18 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-18. markdown-tokens: 884 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/self-help/page-18. 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/) [![writing](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/writing.jpg)](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/writing.jpg "writing") Writing your thoughts and experiences, especially if you write them on a regular basis, is a powerful force in your eating disorder recovery. The healing power of moving your pen across a blank page while you are still is vast and endless. Even if your mind is awhirl and you are in emotional pain, if you keep moving your pen and writing random words, sentences, maybe paragraphs or lists you will find yourself shouldering your way through barriers and into something fresh. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/self-help/write-for-self-knowledge-and-healing) Details Category: [Self-Help](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/self-help/) Tonight was a mysterious and beautiful night of wonder and inspiration. It's left me feeling good about myself and the world, as if, despite all stresses that face so many people these days, the potential for something good and grand still exists. We had a brief but intense [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/self-help/rainbow-inspiraton) Details Category: [Self-Help](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/self-help/) Reading the comments I've received on my Wave Dream in Recovery post moved me to explore more the possible meanings of the big wave dream, especially as it relates to healing and recovery. A[ definition caught my attention](http://www.amazon.com/Penguin-Dictionary-Symbols/dp/0140512543/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1285737393&sr=8-1-catcorr): *waves stand for all the power of massive inertia.* The people I know who have shared their big wave dreams with me were on the verge of making [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/self-help/more-on-big-wave-dreams) Details Category: [Self-Help](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/self-help/) I'm learning and struggling as I start and restart a post that runs away with me, and which I believe you would stop reading quickly. So I thought I would pause and share with you my dilemma. It's the dilemma that faces all of us with a past or present eating disorder. Maybe it's a human dilemma. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/self-help/humbled-by-gracian-bloggers-dilemma)