If you have an eating disorder and you are out of work or your job has been downsized so much that you need an additional or better source of income, you may be frightened and taking on more personal blame than is yours. Your eating disorder symptoms, especially the distorted thinking and logic that accompanies any eating disorder, can impede your progress financially and in the job market itself.
Self help activities support your recovery and help you expand your awareness, develop life skills, develop self acceptance and self appreciation, develop new relationships and equip you to live a life with more competence and joy. Here you will find articles that show you many ways of providing yourself with self help exercises and activities to enrich your life and articles that help you understand your own thinking and emotional process. Topics include: friendships, self-esteem, dreams, binges, relapse, yoga, secrets, check lists, writing, dream journals, gardening, education and career opportunities and more.
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I'm back, and I've been breaking patterns in my life. The past year I've spent in writing my eating disorder self help recovery book.
Writing the book taught me more about the healing and recovery journey. One aspect that continually came up for me is the importance of breaking patterns.
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Once you start your path to eating disorder recovery, how can you keep going? What happens when your good intentions begin to slip away? How can you bring them back?
Eating disorder recovery, or recovery from disordered eating whatever form that takes, is not about finding and sticking to a diet. But the pattern of failure can be familiar as you lose momentum in your recovery work. To stay on your healing path you need
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Eating disorder recovery advances more quickly if you combine journal writing with your psychotherapy. You can gain even more value from your journal by using an "unpacking" technique.
Recovery Value of Your Journal
Writing what you feel and think as well as your daily activities gives you more stability in emotionally turbulent times.
It also helps you discover some hidden underlying causes and themes to your bulimia, anorexia, binge eating or compulsive eating.
You gain value, insight and sometimes vital revelations when you read your journal entries two months after you've written them. The time lapse gives you enough time and distance to understand and see through your words to a deeper personal meaning than you could at the time you originally wrote. You can make connections that you couldn't see before.
