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Eating disorders and other destructive patterns of living can block mind and spirit from expanding and embracing new concepts and perceptions.

Developing inner strength is required to move beyond the grip of destructive patterns.

Searching for methods and practices to help develop inner strength is part of the recovery journey.

Finding sources of inspiration and spiritual awakening can present new or deeper pathways to greater inner strength and new perceptions.

Eating Disorder: How reading quality novels helps recovery

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Category: Inspiration, Self Discovery and Spirituality
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Reading quality novels can help your mind and spirit grow beyond the mental and spiritual chokehold of an eating disorder.

Reading quality novels can be particularly helpful in eating disorder recovery for the following reasons:

1.   Emotional Connection:

Novels often provide rich and nuanced portrayals of characters and their experiences. By immersing themselves in a well-written novel, individuals in recovery can form emotional connections with the characters

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Relapse: Perspective on Eating Disorder Recovery

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Relapse after Recovery

A thirty-three year old man told me he had been a binge eater most of his life and now was fully recovered. Food has been a non issue for two years.

His statement inspired me to think about what the term recovery means to many people. 

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Early Eating Disorder Recovery

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eating disorder recovery and new perspectives                                             playing with creativity and surprise

"The most regretful people on earth are those that felt the call to creative work...& gave it neither power nor time."
~ Mary Oliver

Eating disorder recovery is a vital, valuable, soul saving, life enhancing endeavor. Your life enhancing path begins as you recover. Your creative path is about the real you.

As you move through your recovery process and become more free of your eating disorder ask yourself:

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Healing Questions in Eating Disorder Recovery

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healing questions for eating disorder recovery
Healing questions to find your authentic center. 

Healing Question: Are you using your eating disorder as your center?


You developed an eating disorder to hold your emotional and psychological life together. Something interfered with your developing a solid self core that could sustain you through the trials and challenges of living. Developing an eating disorder is a creative act. You created a core center that you can support by controlling how you eat (or don’t eat), how you exercise, how you isolate and how you limit your life to specific habits and routines.

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