Psychotherapy and eating disorder recovery work take many forms. In this extensive grouping you'll find articles, links and discussions that include stories of individuals working through their healing process and descriptions of different treatment approaches. Issues include trust, bingeing, starving, sexuality, fear, anxiety, triumphs, abuse, shame, dream work, journal keeping and more. Discussions regarding insurance and finances are here as well. Reading these articles and participating in discussions will give you deep and varied windows into eating disorder recovery treatment.
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If you suffer from an eating disorder you may not know the difference between your symptoms and your authentic identity. Knowing you have an identity that is different and more powerful than your eating disorder behaviors is a vital component in your recovery.
Our culture often applauds people for symptoms, like being a workaholic, and criticizes for others, like being a drunk or an overeater. Our culture often fails to recognize the differences between symptoms, behaviors and identity.
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Every minute of our lives we are making choices. If we have an eating disorder we make consistent choices throughout our day to live life as we know it. That means we make choices, small, large, conscious or unconscious to maintain our illness.
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When you learn to respect and understand the language your body uses to communicate with you, your awareness of your position in life grows. You may change your perceptions, enliven your imagination and creativity, resolve adversarial relationships and in general, move beyond your current limits.
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Recovery work involves feeling what you'd rather not feel. But how much do you need to feel, and what are you supposed to do while you are in emotional pain? These are vital questions that need to be answered in the spirit of recovery.
One way to stop emotional pain is to act out your eating disorder. Eat, binge, starve, get on the treadmill, hook up with a person or group of people who will act out with you and bring you to high sensations that block out anything else you might feel. But you want recovery so you know these are not your best options. What then?
- In Trouble? Heal Your Way Out
- Creating Structure: Top Requirement for Effective Recovery Work
- Healing Shame
- Talking about Sex
- Frightened Child Image Healing Work: plus recovery conversation
- Binge Eating and Eating Disorder Recovery: How Long Does It Take?
- Getting Through Obstacles to Eating Disorder Recovery
- Obstacles to Eating Disorder Recovery
- Perspective on Eating Disorder Recovery and Relapse
- Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast with Joanna Poppink