Benevolent smiles in your environment support eating disorder recovery

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Category: Friends and Family

Garden lessons for eating disorder recovery

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Category: Psychotherapy and Recovery Work

A kind of circle develops between my patients, my garden and me where we share and appreciate the giving and receiving that is happening naturally for the benefit of all of us.

*pix View from my office window. Patient waiting area is to the right in the shaded area not visible.

Healing Power of Psychotherapy Rests in Harmony

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Category: Psychotherapy and Recovery Work

Hurting, frightened and courageous people come to my psychotherapy practice to find relief from emotional pain. They don't want to binge or starve or throw up any more. They don't want to be too big or too small, thinking that a perfect and beautiful body would end their suffering. They come to find support in their judgmental thinking about real and perceived abusers in their lives, now or in the past.

Opinion: Looking at the missing pieces of residential eating disorder treatment programs

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Category: Psychotherapy and Recovery Work

In social media where people with eating disorders call out to each other look for support, try to find recovery, and give warnings to others about what treatment didn't work, the shared pain, fear and frustration is clear.

*pix (Functioning in the world without an eating disorder can be just as daunting as functioning on the moon. Both require new learning and practice.)