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.
Getting into treatment can be a challenge. Yet, somehow people in recovery, regardless of their situation, have found a place to begin. Once you find your beginning place, then one step leads to another.
12 step programs are free. Low fee clinics exist. Even low fee or free in patient treatment centers exist for people who are willing to be part of research studies.
ANAD offers free eating disorder support groups around the country. So how do you find what's right for you?
Culture Bound in Eating Disorders
If you have an eating disorder, you are stuck in an eating disorder personal culture that governs your feelings, perceptions, behaviors and relationships (or lack of relationships).
Because an eating disorder exercises a thorough influence on every aspect of your life, you can't see it clearly. You only have eating disordered eyes to see. That makes you culture bound.
Self-Care Self-care is essential during these stressful and unpredictable times. For a woman with an eating disorder, self-care is difficult in the best of times. You may be experiencing more violent anxiety now as you and people and systems you’ve counted on to care for you are being strained by the current economic turbulence. Now more than ever, you need a trustworthy and caring system to keep yourself functional and safe. The first step is to awaken to your personal strengths.
Some guidelines for people who are already in some stage of eating disorder recovery
(If you are in recovery you can hear this. If you are not in recovery your eating disorder will probably block this information or discount it.)
The National Women's Health Information Center offers these suggestions as part of a program to help prevent osteoporosis.
Getting through the days, the nights, the meals, the snack times without overeating or starving is a challenge for people with eating disorders.
Often people write or call me to say, "Yes, I keep my journal. I see my therapist. I go to 12 step meetings. I'm learning to be kind and compassionate with myself. But what can I do about the food? Please help me."
What people specifically mean by this plea varies with each individual. But they clearly express their bewilderment and anguish as they attempt to find and develop new attitudes and behaviors toward daily eating.
We have 558 guests and no members online
