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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/)  *When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.* Jimi Hendrix

 

 

 

   Details    Category: [Inspirations](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/table/help-yourself/inspirations/)  *What can be done at any time will be done at no time.*  
 old Scottish proverb

 

 

   Details    Category: [Inspirations](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/table/help-yourself/inspirations/)  [![256px Sojourner truth c1870](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/256px-Sojourner_truth_c1870.jpg)](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/256px-Sojourner_truth_c1870.jpg)

Do you know about Sojourner Truth? Perhaps this strong, brave and eloquent woman of the 1800's can inspire you as she did me and millions of others.

 

 [  Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/inspirations/qaint-i-a-womanq)

 

 

   Details    Category: [Inspirations](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/table/help-yourself/inspirations/)  *"Don't ask yourself what the world needs...  
 Ask yourself what makes you alive  
 because what the world needs  
 are people who have come  
 alive."*  
 Ranier Maria Rilke - poet

 

 

   Details    Category: [Inspirations](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/table/help-yourself/inspirations/)  *We must take care not to make intellect our god. It has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. It cannot rule, only serve.* - Albert Einstein