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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/)  *As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth,   
 so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.  
 To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again.   
 To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over  
 the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.*  
 Henry David Thoreau

 

 

 

   Details    Category: [Inspirations](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/table/help-yourself/inspirations/)  *To any reader, young or old, scholar or layman,   
 I would say one thing:   
 No great book was ever written to be lectured on or explained in schools.   
 Every masterpiece was first written for the use of (human beings).  Don't be frightened by famous names.   
 Don't think that famous books are dull.   
 They wouldn't be famous now if they hadn't interested their first readers.

 Get yourself a comfortable chair and a good light  
\---and have confidence in your own mind.*   
 John Erskine, February 28, 1937 Columbia University

 

 

   Details    Category: [Inspirations](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/table/help-yourself/inspirations/)  *The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.* - William James

 

 

   Details    Category: [Inspirations](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/table/help-yourself/inspirations/)  *What a wonderful life I've had!  
 I only wish I'd realized it sooner.*  
 Colette

 

 

   Details    Category: [Inspirations](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/table/help-yourself/inspirations/)  *I have never made  
 but one prayer to God,  
 a very short one:*  
 *O Lord,  
 make my enemies  
 ridiculous.*  
 *And God granted it.*  
 Voltaire