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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/)  *How many cares  
 one loses  
 when one decides   
 not to be something.*  
*-Anonymous*

 

 

 

 

   Details    Category: [Inspirations](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/table/help-yourself/inspirations/)  *![river_ganga3364655834_3eab5a4263](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/river_ganga3364655834_3eab5a4263.jpg)*

*When you do things from the soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.*

Jelaluddin Rumi



Your eating disorder blocks feelings. It puts layers of obsessive thoughts and actions over your inner self, barricading you from your soul.

But your soul is strong and relentless in remaining present and alive within you. It is health and your guide to recovery and joy.

 

 [  Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/inspirations/inspiration)

 

 

   Details    Category: [Inspirations](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/table/help-yourself/inspirations/)  *Nothing is so certain  
 as that the evils of  
 idleness can be shaken off  
 by hard work.*  
 Seneca (4 B.C. - A.D. 65)

 

 

   Details    Category: [Inspirations](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/table/help-yourself/inspirations/)  *Try.   
 Fail.   
 Try Again.   
 Fail Better.*   
Samuel Beckett

 

 

 

   Details    Category: [Inspirations](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/table/help-yourself/inspirations/)  *Work keeps away the three great vices:  
 boredom, vice and poverty..*  
 Voltaire