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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/)  *There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men (sic) - true nobility is being superior to your former self.* Author Unknown

 

 

 

   Details    Category: [Inspirations](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/table/help-yourself/inspirations/)  *"...any turn in the wheel of sensation*

*has the power to crystallize and transfix*

*the moment upon which its gloom*

 *or radiance*

*rests..."*

  
 Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse

 

 

 

   Details    Category: [Inspirations](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/table/help-yourself/inspirations/)  *You depend on things and marvel at them:  
 why not unfold your own abilities and transform them?*  
 Hsun-Tsu

 

 

   Details    Category: [Inspirations](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/table/help-yourself/inspirations/)  *What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.* Mark Twain

 

 

   Details    Category: [Inspirations](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/table/help-yourself/inspirations/)  *It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.*

Sir Josiah Charles Stamp, an English Economist