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Holiday Challenge: call for empathy and courage

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Category: Reflections on the Human Condition

“The ultimate measure of a person is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Martin Luther King Jr.

And when is it not a time of challenge and controversy? When we are in moments of comfort and convenience, aren't we focusing on what's pleasant in our lives and disregarding pain in the world? We can't focus on pain all the time. That's disabling. We need to nourish ourselves and each other with love and support.

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Rise to your eating disorder challenge: move beyond recovery to renewal

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Category: Self-Help

*pix a healthy garden expands and contracts with the seasons while simultaneously containing continuous decay and birth.

Our goal in healing needs to move beyond recovery and into the realm of continuous renewal.

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Let your creativity bubble up as you experience eating disorder recovery

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Category: Self-Help

                                                                 playing with creativity and surprise

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

Reinforcement and validation are all around you. Please know, eating disorder recovery is a vital, valuable, soul saving, life enhancing endeavor. But your course doesn't end with recovery.

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What's new in your eating disorder recovery?

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Category: Psychotherapy and Recovery Work

                                                                                      waves, currents and time*

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." -Albert Camus

I like this. Camus' thought helps patients when they don't know how to respond to the friendly question, "What's new?" Have you been stymied by this question?