--- title: Home description: Internationally acclaimed recovery site focused on eating disorders, moving from fragility to power, developing confidence at work and in relationships, and narcissistic abuse recovery. Created by Joanna Poppink, MFT canonical_url: https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/home-3/page-29 language: en-GB notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/home-3/page-29. markdown-tokens: 1200 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/home-3/page-29. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. ## [ Perspective on Eating Disorder Recovery and Relapse ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/perspectives-on-eating-disorder-recovery-and-relapse) Details Category: [Psychotherapy and Recovery Work](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/) ![Perspective on Eating Disorder Recovery and Relapse](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/waveSpain_Canarias_Ajuy.jpg) **Meaning of "Fully Recovered" from an eating disorder** A thirty-three year old man wrote to me saying he had been a binge eater most of his life and now was fully recovered. Food has been a non issue for two years. Of course, I am glad he is happy with the strides he has made in his life. But his post got me to thinking about what recovery means. I have been working since 1980 with people who have and who have had eating disorders. People have many different attitudes and definitions of being fully recovered. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/perspectives-on-eating-disorder-recovery-and-relapse) ## [ Yes, You Can Recover From an Eating Disorder ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/yes-you-can-recover-from-and-eating-disorder) Details Category: [Psychotherapy and Recovery Work](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/) ![Lower Antelope Canyon 478](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/Lower_Antelope_Canyon_478.jpg)Recovery work involves developing your mind, heart, body and soul from a fragile and insubstantial state to a more mature and capable condition that is your authentic you.You can heal your way, develop your way, grow your way out of an eating disorder. Solid recovery from an eating disorder is not about fighting the disorder and winning. That gives an incorrect impression that you remain the same and the eating disorder leaves. Solid recovery occurs when you no longer need your eating disorder to cope with the stresses and challenges in your life now or in the future. \* pix The New York Times, in the April 25, 2011 issues, ran a [pessimistic article](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/health/26anorexia.html?_r=1&ref=health) that risks leaving readers with the idea that you cannot recover [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/yes-you-can-recover-from-and-eating-disorder) ## [ Eating Disorder In-Patient Experience ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/in-patient-experience) Details Category: [Psychotherapy and Recovery Work](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/) ![Eating Disorder In-Patient Experience](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/pink_petal_flowers-324175_640.jpg) \*pix credit # Reality of eating disorder in-patient treatment A wonderful, honest, detailed and accurate description of what it's like to go through an [eating disorder in-patient experience](https://ballyhoo.typepad.com/mollyblog/eating_disorders/index.html) is a gift to anyone with an eating disorder.[ ](https://ballyhoo.typepad.com/mollyblog/eating_disorders/index.html) Molly Freedenberg shared her eating disorder recovery viewpoint.Her post dispels myths and fantasies about early recovery. I'm especially glad that her vivid examples make clear that in-patient or residential treatment is the beginning, not the end of recovery work. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/in-patient-experience) ## [ Eating Disorder Recovery Call: End procrastination and save your life ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/eating-disorder-recovery-call-end-procrastination-and-save-your-life) Details Category: [Psychotherapy and Recovery Work](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/) ![woman phone](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/woman__phone.jpg) Make the call to honor and save your life.Will you keep waiting for tomorrow to begin your recovery? Tomorrow never comes. Procrastination is a powerful part of living with an eating disorder. You postpone taking recovery action. When you put positive activities off you are saying that you'll create a new life for yourself in the future. You plan in your mind, as if you can have two lives, this one and the one you'll create when you finish procrastinating. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/eating-disorder-recovery-call-end-procrastination-and-save-your-life)