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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/)  *In the end we will conserve only what we love.  
 *We love only what we understand.*  
 *We will understand only what we are taught.**

Baba Dioum, Senegalese Ecologist



 

 

 

   Details    Category: [Inspirations](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/table/help-yourself/inspirations/)  *When all is said and done,   
 it is persistence that is the antidote to powerlessness....   
 The sight of goodness undeterred  
 has more power than all the forces on earth arrayed against it.*   
Joan Chittister

 

 

   Details    Category: [Inspirations](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/table/help-yourself/inspirations/)  *The greatest pleasure I  
know is to do a good  
action by stealth,  
and to have it found out  
by accident.*  
Charles Lamb

 

 

   Details    Category: [Inspirations](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/table/help-yourself/inspirations/)  *A faithful friend  
is the medicine of life.*  
Ecclesiasticus 6:16

 

 

   Details    Category: [Inspirations](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/table/help-yourself/inspirations/)  *Common sense is not so common.*  
 Voltaire