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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. ## [ Trump Campaign May Trigger Your PTSD Symptoms and Your Eating Disorder ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/self-help/trump-campaign-may-trigger-your-ptsd-symptoms-and-your-eating-disorder) Details Category: [Self-Help](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/self-help/) ![worried or frightened girl](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/worried_or_frightened_girl.jpg) The Trump Campaign may be may be awakening your PTSD symptoms. It may be triggering your eating disorder. A large, bullying, arrogant man in a position of wealth and power who feels entitled to experience or own anything he wants is parading through the media blatantly derogating, belittling, humiliating, insulting and sexually molesting women through his words and actions. If you have a history of being dishonored in any of these ways, Donald Trump's words and non-verbal actions we see through media and hear him describe, might well be the cause of your reliving your personal traumas now. You may know this and feel it. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/self-help/trump-campaign-may-trigger-your-ptsd-symptoms-and-your-eating-disorder) ## [ Eating Disorders and Body Appreciation ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/self-help/eating-disorders-and-body-appreciation) Details Category: [Self-Help](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/self-help/) Mindfulness Unifying Exercise for Eating Disorder Recovery **![Andrey Belloly 2](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/Andrey_Belloly_2.jpg)** \*pix *Natural, at ease and whole* To mend the split eating disorders create between your mind, heart, spirit and body, try this mindfulness practice. First, for a moment, step away from appreciating your body only in terms of aesthetics relating to weight, size and shape. Give yourself an opportunity to consider your body from a new and different perspective. This exercise can open valuable communication between all aspects of yourself. The value to you is in what might be a surprising lead to your recovery. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/self-help/eating-disorders-and-body-appreciation) ## [ Anxiety in Professional Women Today: Personal Growth is the Solution ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/self-help/anxiety-in-professional-women) Details Category: [Self-Help](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/self-help/) **![Anxiety in Professional Women](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/gold_star_colorful-1289314_640.png)*The gold standard we use to evaluate our lives is changing. Anxiety is a call for us to change.* Well Educated Professional Woman's Anxiety and Worry** An intelligent, educated professional woman is anxious. Her meals last as long as the movie she is watching. Her sleep is disrupted. She's not interested in sex with her husband. She can't see how to make a safe and secure future for her children. She built her career, her marriage and her life with a thoughtful appraisal of hopes, risks and requirements. She planned to maintain the life she values. She has, or had, at least a general picture of what obstacles she would need to face to move into a satisfying future. The future she anticipated is crashing. Deeper personal growth is needed now. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/self-help/anxiety-in-professional-women) ## [ Striving for Perfection: A governing issue in eating disorders ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/self-help/perfection-what-a-start-gracian-series-1) Details Category: [Self-Help](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/self-help/) ![striving for perfection in eating disorders](https://images.iop.org/objects/phw/news/13/6/8/protein.jpg) ### [Double helix, is an 'electric slide' for proteins.](https://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/39512) It doesn't strive for perfection. It is what it is, DNA in the process of becoming. Striving for perfection is a desperate and consuming aspect of living with an eating disorder. If you are in the thick of an eating disorder you know that finding fault with yourself is a constant issue. You may not even know that you are striving for perfection because your perceived faults, especially in the mirror, are overwhelming. 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