--- 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-23 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-23. markdown-tokens: 886 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/self-help/page-23. 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/) 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?" [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/self-help/how-to-develop-motivation-to-start-eating-disorder-recovery-work) Details Category: [Self-Help](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/self-help/) 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. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/self-help/tip-to-stop-night-bingeing) Details Category: [Self-Help](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/self-help/) 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. ### Eating Disorder Symptoms That Hold You Back [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/self-help/down-economy-shaky-finances-job-search-and-eating-disorders) Details Category: [Self-Help](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/self-help/) I'm back, and I've been breaking patterns in my life. The past year I've spent in writing my eating disorder self help recovery book. Writing the book taught me more about the healing and recovery journey. One aspect that continually came up for me is the importance of breaking patterns. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/self-help/breaking-patterns-for-recovery)