--- 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-20 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-20. markdown-tokens: 1086 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/self-help/page-20. 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/) ![tight jade](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/tight_jade.jpg)In eating disorder recovery you develop the ability to contain your impulses. You reveal yourself and engage with the world though speech and action, gradually and with thoughtfulness and consideration for yourself and your environment. \*pix If you suffer from an eating disorder and even if you have some recovery you have developed an all or none perspective in your attitudes about eating and much more. You are familiar with feelings of excitement, anticipation, expectation and find uncertainty hard to bear. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/self-help/value-in-suspence-gracian-3) Details Category: [Self-Help](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/self-help/) **![Anxiety in Professional Women](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/gold_star_colorful-1289314_640.png)*The gold standard we use to evaluate our lives is changing. Anxiety is a call for us to change.* Well Educated Professional Woman's Anxiety and Worry** An intelligent, educated professional woman is anxious. Her meals last as long as the movie she is watching. Her sleep is disrupted. She's not interested in sex with her husband. She can't see how to make a safe and secure future for her children. She built her career, her marriage and her life with a thoughtful appraisal of hopes, risks and requirements. She planned to maintain the life she values. She has, or had, at least a general picture of what obstacles she would need to face to move into a satisfying future. The future she anticipated is crashing. Deeper personal growth is needed now. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/self-help/anxiety-in-professional-women) Details Category: [Self-Help](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/self-help/) Baltasar's second maxim is two words: **Character and Intelligence.** He goes on to say the these are poles your inherent talent spins on and that's what displays your gifts in this world. How might these poles relate to you and your eating disorder recovery? If you have an eating disorder, and especially if you have maintained it for years, you know you've had to use great intelligence to keep it going. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/self-help/displaying-your-gifts-or-not-gracian-217) Details Category: [Self-Help](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/self-help/) ![striving for perfection in eating disorders](https://images.iop.org/objects/phw/news/13/6/8/protein.jpg) ### [Double helix, is an 'electric slide' for proteins.](https://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/39512) It doesn't strive for perfection. It is what it is, DNA in the process of becoming. Striving for perfection is a desperate and consuming aspect of living with an eating disorder. If you are in the thick of an eating disorder you know that finding fault with yourself is a constant issue. You may not even know that you are striving for perfection because your perceived faults, especially in the mirror, are overwhelming. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/self-help/perfection-what-a-start-gracian-series-1)