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![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: [Inspirations](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/table/help-yourself/inspirations/)  *The spirit of poetry came to me and said   
 "You poor thing. You don't know how to listen.   
 Listen to me.   
 Listen."  When I began to listen to poetry is when I began to listen to stones,   
 and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say,   
 and I began to listen to others.

 And what is most important for all of us, is to learn to listen to the soul,   
 the soul of yourself,   
 in here,   
 but which is also the soul of everyone else.*   
\- The Native American poet Joy Harjo on PBS

 

 

 

   Details    Category: [Inspirations](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/table/help-yourself/inspirations/)  *The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created --- created first in the mind and will, created next in activity.*

*The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating.*

*The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination.*

  
\- John Schaar

 

 

 

   Details    Category: [Inspirations](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/table/help-yourself/inspirations/)  > Nothing is permanent:   
> The sun and the moon rise and then set,   
> The bright clear day is followed by the deep, dark night.   
> From hour to hour, everything changes.
> 
>   
> \- Kalu Rinpoche

 

 

 

   Details    Category: [Inspirations](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/table/help-yourself/inspirations/)   Darkness is your candle.  
 Your boundaries are your quest.  
 By Rumi: 1207 - 1273

 

 

   Details    Category: [Inspirations](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/table/help-yourself/inspirations/)  *We lived for days  
 on nothing  
 but food and water.*  
 W. C. Fields