--- title: Help Yourself description: Support your recovery canonical_url: https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/eating-disorder-help/help-yourself/page-13 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/page-13. markdown-tokens: 1180 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/eating-disorder-help/help-yourself/page-13. 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/) 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. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/help-yourself/revolt-against-the-tyranny-of-your-shoulds) Details Category: [Help Yourself](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/eating-disorder-help/help-yourself/) **[![Ship-weathervane-Viking-Ship-with-gold-leaf-photo](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/Ship-weathervane-Viking-Ship-with-gold-leaf-photo.jpg)Culture Bound ](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture-bound_syndrome "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. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/help-yourself/eating-disorders-autism-and-shift-to-recovery) Details Category: [Help Yourself](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/eating-disorder-help/help-yourself/) **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. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/help-yourself/global-economic-crisis-pulling-out-of-desperation-and-paralysis) Details Category: [Help Yourself](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/eating-disorder-help/help-yourself/) 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. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/help-yourself/getting-through-a-meal-with-strength-and-serenity) Details Category: [Help Yourself](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/eating-disorder-help/help-yourself/) **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](http://www.womenshealth.gov/FAQ/osteoporosis.cfm) offers these suggestions as part of a program to help prevent osteoporosis. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/help-yourself/qenoughq-for-your-bones-your-recovery-and-your-life)