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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. ## [ Why does deep psychotherapy take time? ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/why-does-deep-psychotherapy-take-time) Details Created: 28 November 2019 ![clock fantasy 2879946 640](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/clock_fantasy-2879946_640.jpg) Within our psyche we carry the known and unknown about ourselves. This is a tricky statement. What we think we know about ourselves may be influenced by what we don’t know about ourselves. When the unknown reveals itself we may have a different experience of being who we are. When [Bobby Darin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Darin) learned that his sister was really his mother and his mother was really his grandmother, it was an emotional catastrophe for the singer/actor. Our identity as we understand ourselves may be different than what we believed once we know what has been hidden about who we are. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/why-does-deep-psychotherapy-take-time) ## [ Action for Your Authentic Life in Six Steps (Step Three May Be the Most Difficult) - Steps One and Two ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/action-for-your-authentic-life-in-six-steps-step-three-may-be-the-most-difficult-steps-one-and-two) Details Created: 03 November 2019 [![hatching chicks 2448541 640](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/hatching-chicks-2448541_640.jpg)](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/hatching-chicks-2448541_640.jpg) For a positive change in your life, you need to rally new, energizing inspiration from within and act. Is that possible? How do you do that? If you are miserable or just plain bored or guilty about procrastinating, what can you do to rouse yourself into a spirited and satisfying way of living? [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/action-for-your-authentic-life-in-six-steps-step-three-may-be-the-most-difficult-steps-one-and-two) ## [ Action for Your Authentic Life in Six Steps (Step Three May Be the Most Difficult) - Step Three ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/action-for-your-authentic-life-in-six-steps-step-three-may-be-the-most-difficult-step-three) Details Created: 03 November 2019 [![fists fire and water 2354583 640](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/fists_fire-and-water-2354583_640.jpg)](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/fists_fire-and-water-2354583_640.jpg) Bear the conflict. Eventually, if you follow step 1 and step 2 you will feel uncomfortable. You will feel afraid or mad or so angry and depressed you want to blame something or someone or many people or conditions for your emotional pain. You can get through this stage without understanding, relying on a devil may care act of desperation. But that often does not work. If you try to break the conflict in yourself through dangerous activities you are not trying to die, although you may. You are trying to stop the pain by taking extreme distracting action. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/action-for-your-authentic-life-in-six-steps-step-three-may-be-the-most-difficult-step-three) ## [ Action for Your Authentic Life in Six Steps (Step Three May Be the Most Difficult) - Step Four ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/action-for-your-authentic-life-in-six-steps-step-three-may-be-the-most-difficult-step-four) Details Created: 03 November 2019 [![horizontal 1452536 640](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/horizontal-1452536_640.png)](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/horizontal-1452536_640.png)*Prepare a stable base for when you inevitably lose your balance. You will regroup in a new and more solid way.* Now, you take on the task of working through the polarized tensions in yourself to evolve out of the status quo and into your more developed life. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/action-for-your-authentic-life-in-six-steps-step-three-may-be-the-most-difficult-step-four) ## [ Action for Your Authentic Life in Six Steps (Step Three May Be the Most Difficult) - Step Five ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/action-for-your-authentic-life-in-six-steps-step-three-may-be-the-most-difficult-step-five) Details Created: 03 November 2019 [![gorge 1081998 640](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/gorge-1081998_640.jpg)](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/gorge-1081998_640.jpg) You are not the first to make this journey. This journey has been happening since human beings stood on two legs and maybe earlier than that. After all, it was the life force that brought us up to stand. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/action-for-your-authentic-life-in-six-steps-step-three-may-be-the-most-difficult-step-five) ## [ Action for Your Authentic Life in Six Steps (Step Three May Be the Most Difficult) - Step Six ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/action-for-your-authentic-life-in-six-steps-step-three-may-be-the-most-difficult-step-six) Details Created: 03 November 2019 [![anchor 661991 640](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/anchor-661991_640.jpg)](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/anchor-661991_640.jpg)*People can find their stable base from which to take this journey in many ways.* Leonardo DaVinci found his base in nature, as do many who can see through life forms to the metaphors and actions of natural life forces. Ray Bradbury found his base in libraries, as do many who discover the people and perspectives from across time who wrote and filled the books that bring us worlds we never dreamed of on our own. We recognize them when we find them. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/action-for-your-authentic-life-in-six-steps-step-three-may-be-the-most-difficult-step-six) ## [ First Psychotherapy Appointment with Joanna Poppink ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/first-psychotherapy-appointment-with-joanna-poppink) Details Created: 15 September 2019 ![ocean waves rolling to shore 340](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/ocean_waves_rolling_to_shore__340.jpg) Your emotional waves are rolling in, but what is the shore you seek? If your life looks good, great or enviable to others, who can you trust with your vulnerabilities and secrets? You don’t want to take medication. You don’t want to be told what to do. You don’t want to isolate or use food, drugs or alcohol to soothe yourself. Yet, you know your spirit cries out for something. You need help and hope help exists. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/first-psychotherapy-appointment-with-joanna-poppink) ## [ What’s Soul Got to Do with Psychotherapy and Eating Disorder Recovery? ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/what-s-soul-got-to-do-with-psychotherapy) Details Created: 07 September 2019 ![yellow rose with insect](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/yellow_rose_with_insect.jpg) Living with an eating disorder or the remnants of an old eating disorder is living a lonely life. You can’t be your true self with anyone in order to create a deep and rich relationship. You don’t even know who you. You feel inadequate. You often feel you are an imposter. You are certain you must please others or take care of them in order to be okay yourself. What is in you that supports your true self and allows you to be free? Even asking this question can be a revolution in your thinking. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/what-s-soul-got-to-do-with-psychotherapy)