--- title: Help Yourself description: Support your recovery canonical_url: https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/eating-disorder-help/help-yourself/ language: en-GB date: 2016-07-28T05:04:46Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/eating-disorder-help/help-yourself/. markdown-tokens: 1315 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/eating-disorder-help/help-yourself/. 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. ![doorknob 948568 340](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/doorknob-948568__340.jpg)Doors can open for you if you knock or simply turn the handle. Here you can find articles that may answer your questions and support you in your personal recovery work. You'll also find a series of inspirations and affirmation that may help you stay on your healing path. Please remember, helping yourself does not mean going it alone. Helping yourself means discovering what what you can do to support your own recovery. That includes how to recognize opportunity and reach out for what supports your health and personal development. When you help yourself you are looking to people as well as books, websites and classes, who are in a position to offer you genuine recovery help on your journey to healing. Open new doors to find your recovery path. Details Category: [Help Yourself](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/eating-disorder-help/help-yourself/) Liv and Susie are asking questions that relate to many people who restrict. (In response to invitation post) The questions go like this: "How do I change course and start gaining when I am underweight?" "Even if I’m at a weight that’s too low, how can I just maintain instead of losing?" "I’m still losing weight! How can I stop?" "When will I feel that it is okay to eat?" **An approach to stop restricting** I’ll give you an approach you can use to help yourself stop restricting. Then I’ll try to help you understand how it works. But please know, you don’t have to understand how this approach works for it to be effective. **For you quick readers:** Be your own doctor. Give yourself the authority to take charge of your health. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/help-yourself/how-do-i-stop-restricting-when-i-am-underweight) Details Category: [Help Yourself](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/eating-disorder-help/help-yourself/) ***[![rain on flower](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/rain_on_flower.jpg)](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/rain_on_flower.jpg)****Sudden anorexia recovery efforts can be as shocking to the body as well as the mind. Here is one woman’s recovery story presented via our correspondence. She gave me permission to post our dialogue on my blog in hopes that our exchange would help you. (Her name is changed and her city is omitted.)* ***Hello Joanna,*** ***I found your website online and was hoping that you could help me. I struggled in silence with anorexia for eight years.*** [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/help-yourself/physical-effects-of-anorexia-recovery-personal-story) Details Category: [Help Yourself](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/eating-disorder-help/help-yourself/) [![lonely_woman](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/lonely_woman.jpg)](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/lonely_woman.jpg "lonely_woman") If you feel more lonely than you can bear, your feelings of loneliness can trigger a binge. Loneliness is not about being alone. It's about feeling isolated or marooned. It's about feeling unloved in a world where others are loved, unknown, where others are known, unreachable with no one stretching out a hand to you. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/help-yourself/lonliness-contributes-to-binge-eating-loneliness-quiz) Details Category: [Help Yourself](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/eating-disorder-help/help-yourself/) A vivid recovery story came in last night from Tracy. **Major eating disorder recovery stumbling block:** In her heroic efforts to be well, Tracy brings up a major stumbling block to eating disorder recovery. When the brain is deprived of necessary nutrients, our ability to think reasonably is affected. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/help-yourself/a-starved-brain-cant-think) Details Category: [Help Yourself](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/eating-disorder-help/help-yourself/) [![1200px Rainbowbywaterfall](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/1200px-Rainbowbywaterfall.jpg)](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/1200px-Rainbowbywaterfall.jpg)*You can find guidance on the most arduous journey.* Affirmations used on a regular basis open positive pathways in your heart, mind and imagination. Over time your psyche accepts that what you affirm is possible, and you will recognize opportunities. Don't believe the affirmations? That's your point of entry. You don't believe. You say them and begin to change your mindset through repetition. Repeating them on a regular basis opens your mind to a new appreciation of yourself. Please don't wait for the result before you start the process. Start the process and let the result come. [How to use these affirmations.](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/index.php/help-yourself/affirmations) [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/help-yourself/affirmations-51-60)