Welcome to Joanna Poppink’s Healing Library for Midlife Women
Psychotherapy insights, tools, and support for your journey
Doors can open for you if you knock or simply turn the handle.
Here you can find articles that may answer your questions and support you in your personal recovery work.
You'll also find a series of inspirations and affirmation that may help you stay on your healing path.
Please remember, helping yourself does not mean going it alone. Helping yourself means discovering what what you can do to support your own recovery. That includes how to recognize opportunity and reach out for what supports your health and personal development.
When you help yourself you are looking to people as well as books, websites and classes, who are in a position to offer you genuine recovery help on your journey to healing.
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Eating Disorder Recovery Key QuestionsHow do you take effective action that will create a solid recovery path?
How do you maintain your sense of purpose so you keep to your recovery path despite painful challenges?
These are two vital questions I keep in mind about eating disorder recovery.
Terror and Hope in First Psychotherapy Session
I remember my first psychotherapy session with the psychotherapist who led me through the first years
I am relieved to see in print the genuine experience of a binge eating person and a description of the in-depth psychological work necessary to heal beyond the need to mindlessly devour food.
A woman I'll call Sierra, struggling with an eating disorder and difficulty in finding help, wrote to me this week. Sierra said she hopes my blog is real. She said she hopes I am a real psychotherapist. Her brief post goes on to say she has no place else to look and is in a desperate search for help with her eating disorder situation.
Joanna Poppink, MFT supports Eating Disorder Awareness Week.
To "ultimately prevent eating disorders and body image issues while reducing the stigma surrounding eating disorders and improving access to treatment" is the focus of the National Eating Disorder Association campaign.
To find an Eating Disorder Awareness Week event near you go to NEDA EDAW events. You can find fun, support, new learning and the company of caring people rallying positive energy to prevent eating disorders and to help you.
Brain malnourishment causes bizarre thinking and is a fundamental obstacle to recovery. When your brain does not get adequate nourishment your perceptions are distorted. You can't make sound and reasonable judgments. You can't take on realistic responsibility for your own responsible self care.
In the video, created as part of Joseph Campo's work in infant research at UC Berkeley you'll see a baby negotiating something similar to your situation. He knows where he is safe. His perceptions tell him where danger exists. He won't go there. But with encouragement from a trusted and loving figure he will ignore his fears and move through what he considered dangerous to get to a worth while prize. For him, the prize is a toy. For you, the prize is your life.
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