--- 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-6 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-6. markdown-tokens: 1046 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/self-help/page-6. 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/) ![jazzGUGALANDER JAM SESSION PLAKAT](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/jazzGUGALANDER_JAM_SESSION_PLAKAT.jpg) [pix credit\*](http://www.amazon.com/Afford-Luxury-Negative-Thought-Series/dp/0931580242)My morning began with delight and chaos which threw off my regular journal writing schedule. I was cuddling with laughing, singing children instead of writing in my garden. I'm clear about the value of my choice. Later in the day I attended a social/professional luncheon. While there I felt strong social pressure on me from a group of people to play a role that is not who I am. I didn't like it. I fought against a stiffening I felt building in me. I was building and fighting not to build an inner wall around who I am. I relaxed as I moved away from them but couldn’t when I was with them. With them I was polite, pleasant and guarded behind a mask. If the façade slipped a little, and I felt the real me emerging, I felt stress in my body. A powerful recovery guideline is, withdraw from what shuts me down and approach what opens me up. I followed this guideline and left the gathering early. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/self-help/thoughts-become-real-in-life-be-thoughtful-about-your-thoughts) Details Category: [Self-Help](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/self-help/) ![worried or frightened girl](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/worried_or_frightened_girl.jpg) The Trump Campaign may be may be awakening your PTSD symptoms. It may be triggering your eating disorder. A large, bullying, arrogant man in a position of wealth and power who feels entitled to experience or own anything he wants is parading through the media blatantly derogating, belittling, humiliating, insulting and sexually molesting women through his words and actions. If you have a history of being dishonored in any of these ways, Donald Trump's words and non-verbal actions we see through media and hear him describe, might well be the cause of your reliving your personal traumas now. You may know this and feel it. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/self-help/trump-campaign-may-trigger-your-ptsd-symptoms-and-your-eating-disorder) Details Category: [Self-Help](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/self-help/) ![NASA chaos in Orion 162283main image feature 693 ys 4](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/NASA_chaos_in_Orion_162283main_image_feature_693_ys_4.jpg) Pain is a great teacher, maybe the best. It plunges you into exploring and confronting yourself more deeply. But, first you have to get past anger, entitlement, self pity, frustration and sadness. When those bring neither relief nor solution, you must move beyond them into new realms. \* pix credit below [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/self-help/pain-stages-of-deepening-awareness-and-growth) ### Who's Online We have 221 guests and no members online #### Healing Your Hungry Heart - the book