--- title: Help Yourself description: Support your recovery canonical_url: https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/eating-disorder-help/help-yourself/page-2 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-2. markdown-tokens: 1182 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/eating-disorder-help/help-yourself/page-2. 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/) ![plate 526603 340](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/plate-526603__340.jpg) \*pix *You're hungry or your not hungry but you know it's time to eat. You're emotional and know it's not time to eat. Empty plates show you that many choices exist. But they don't tell you how to make your choice.* **Guidelines in how to cope with food choices and eat well.**"What should I eat?"is a question that people ask through the day, whether they are in recovery or not. They ask this even if they don't have an eating disorder and even if they have been seeing a nutritionist and studying various food plans.If you are dealing with an eating disorder, or the remnants of one, how do you approach this question? [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/help-yourself/what-should-i-eat) Details Category: [Help Yourself](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/eating-disorder-help/help-yourself/) Watch out for mind tricks that convince you that cleansing is normal when it is a purging symptom of a real and present eating disorder. **The Mind Trick** [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/help-yourself/bulimia-enemas-and-mind-tricks) Details Category: [Help Yourself](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/eating-disorder-help/help-yourself/) **Crisis Questions** Isn’t it odd how you sometimes need to binge for no apparent reason and yet function well during a major crisis? Have you wondered why sometimes you need to binge when nothing, in particular, seems amiss or when something tiny goes awry? Perhaps you've wondered why you can move through part of a day or night without binging or purging at all. I think about these questions as they relate to my patients and to the people affected by an eating disorder who write or call me looking for help and understanding. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/help-yourself/response-to-crisis) Details Category: [Help Yourself](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/eating-disorder-help/help-yourself/) The Question: How can I stop my eating disorder behavior? Answer: Rethink the question, or you'll be caught in a control trap. **Shelley's response** As Shelley so eloquently reveals in her [comment responding to Wendeline's story](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/help-yourself/physical-effects-of-anorexia-recovery-personal-story), effective recovery work begins when the eating disorder behaviors around food begin to subside. That's when your emotional challenges reveal themselves. That's when your body reels and goes into shock at the massive change in how it is nourished and cared for. The idea that eating after starving or holding after purging or eating in a balanced way after regularly bingeing is the whole answer for recovery is so very wrong. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/help-yourself/physical-effects-of-anorexia-recovery-response-to-personal-story) Details Category: [Help Yourself](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/eating-disorder-help/help-yourself/) In eating disorder recovery you can explore your triggering situations by looking at six levels of trigger responses. **Explore Your Situation** Please pay attention to what is going on in your life, including your internal life, just prior to a binge or [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/help-yourself/bulimia-how-to-recognize-triggers-for-a)