Welcome to Joanna Poppink’s Healing Library for Midlife Women
Psychotherapy insights, tools, and support for your journey
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.
Feeling Alive and Hopeful
My last post brought healthy eating into connection with love, appreciation for life and gentleness with body and soul. If you have an eating disorder, you’ve probably had glimpses of this experience and continue draw hope from these glimpses. However, anyone with an eating disorder of any kind knows that such feelings are out of awareness during the urge to binge or the urge to actively control anything or anyone.
The Paradox in Binge as Rescue: You know what you want. You want to be solid and alive. You want to be capable of being seen and heard without going into anxiety. You want to be real and have a real life.
However, experiencing an emotional crisis drives you to save yourself from intense and immediate pain. You plunge into your eating disorder repertoire.
Eating Disorder Rescues: The eating disorder rescue looks like this: You crawl under the covers, trembling on the inside and afraid to come out. Or you sink into the television, binge and do not answer the phone. Or you binge in restaurants wearing what feels like your invisibility cloak or phony persona. Or you binge in your car, alone and unseen.
Yoyos can be fun, but not when that tricky up and down experience involves your weight. Many people get caught in the yo yo weight gain - weight loss experience yet feel they don't meet the various criteria for an eating disorder.
A challenging but efficient way to approach your eating dilemma is to keep a journal. Every morning if possible, write for three or four pages. Write whatever comes to you mind. And if nothing comes to your mind
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You’re back at school. Christmas vacation is over. New Years is over. You’ve had a week of classes. For you on the quarter system, the classes are new.
Are you in good shape, or are you anxious and back into your eating disorder? You should feel energized by your relaxed and fun filled break from school routines.
The answer to the binge response dilemma:
Grow Your Way Out: You have to grow your way out. Eating disorder healing and recovery are directly related to nurturing and supporting young and wounded aspects of your psyche to health and maturity. A more sturdy, healthy and realistically confident inner world allows you to use self-growth and stress reduction methods to cope well in the world.
Developing that kind of inner world is the goal of eating disorder treatment. Stress reduction programs, inspirational and practical task lists, and articles, including some suggestions on my blog, are practical and helpful to people who can use them.
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