A woman wrote asking if she could cure herself of bulimia on her own because she doesn't want anyone to know about her bingeing and purging. Then she goes on to say that she's lost 40 pounds. She wants to keep her condition secret yet in one year she developed these symptoms:
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.
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A woman in her mid forties wrote to me asking how she can motivate herself to do the eating disorder recovery exercises in my workbook. She's suffered with her eating disorder for 30 years. Today she has a good life that she can't fully enjoy because she suffers from bouts of despair as well as physical symptoms from her eating disorder like hair loss and yo yo weight gain and loss.
You may identify with her situation. You may also be asking, "How do I motivate myself to do my recovery work?"
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Can you move through an entire day eating quality food in reasonable portions for breakfast, lunch and dinner, only to wind up bingeing at night?
If you do you are not alone. Intelligent, competent and successful adult women struggle against night eating urges only to succumb to their cravings. They then binge on high calorie, fat and or food stuffs, and criticize themselves harshly later.- Details
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If you have an eating disorder and you are out of work or your job has been downsized so much that you need an additional or better source of income, you may be frightened and taking on more personal blame than is yours. Your eating disorder symptoms, especially the distorted thinking and logic that accompanies any eating disorder, can impede your progress financially and in the job market itself.
