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If you suffer from an eating disorder now or have in the past, please email Joanna for a free telephone consultation.
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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.
If you have an eating disorder you live a life that is more dangerous than you know. Your eating disorder behaviors are only part of the risks you experience every day.
You can feel safe but be in danger. You can feel afraid and be in danger. Your felt fear can help you recognize the source of danger and take action to make yourself more realistically safe.
My self help eating disorder recovery book is in it's almost final form at Conari Publishers. It is due to come out Spring of 2011.
How lovely to see this research today: Binge-Eating Treatment Found Cost-Effective Using Self Help Book.
In my training as a psychotherapist I was taught not to tell patients what to do. After all, they are leading their lives based on their values, loves, goals, wishes and desires not mine. Yet, as a seasoned clinical with rich experience as a professional and rich hard won experience as a former bulimic, I recognize psychological and behavioral mine fields when I see them.
Stalkers and Eating Disorders Certainly not everyone with bulimia acts out their disease as I described. But many do match the scenario in tmy last two posts and many are worse. At least in the descriptions I gave, the woman got home. I wrote the full bulimic episode description to make clear that bulimia covers a territory far more vast than eating behaviors.
Crisis: Crisis refers to an exquisite tipping point that leads to instability and then returns to stability or becomes drastic and imaginable or unimaginable change. Therefore, a crisis can relate to any situation because any situation can change. The situation involved could be physical, emotional or mental. It could be imagined and perceived as happening, or it could be real.
Understanding the Binge Response: To understand an eating disorder binge response to crisis, we must understand the person’s lived experience while she is in her precarious moment of instability and perhaps imminent change. It’s her inner lived experience, not the situation itself, that forces the binge response.
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