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Recognizing a healing resource is part of achieving and sustaining recovery. More, it's part of celebrating and nourishing your life. Articles and discussions here guide you to the many forms a healing resource can take. This includes: animals, wilderness areas, recovery books, class experiences, affirmations, tips to help you tolerate and grow through strong emotional experience, workbooks exercises, private time, treatment programs and more.
Inspiring Student's Eating Disorder Treatment Questions
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Eating Disorder Questions
Students of psychology, from grade six through graduate school, write me asking for help with their research papers on eating disorders.
Most want fast help in getting through an assignment, but some genuinely want information to help them understand eating disorders and what it takes to recover.
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Lost in Eating Disorder Pain and Suffering: Sometimes I Forget
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Sometimes I am so happy and deeply involved in the recovery work I share with my clients in my private practice that I momentarily forget the depth and vastness of the pain and suffering lived daily by people entrenched in their eating disorders.
Joy in Recovery Work The eating disorder recovery path, even though challenging to every aspect of a person’s way of being in the world, is a joyous experience for me. This must be why I do this work. Being with someone who is climbing out of the prison of an eating disorder and blinking from the light of the new world she enters is an incredible joy.
Are You Bingeing on Eating Disorder Recovery?
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This title is not a typo. I don’t mean bingeing during eating disorder recovery. I mean actually bingeing on the recovery process itself.
Fear and Hope
If you have an eating disorder you enter psychotherapy with fear and hope. You fear the loss of your eating disorder, and you fear that therapy won’t work to end your eating disorder.
Response to Cry for Help
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Today I received a long post from a woman caught in a desperate tangle of bingeing, starving, guilt, shame and anxiety. She is bewildered by her own experience and frantic to find relief without getting professiona*l help.I believe she represents many women in a similar position of suffering.
If this is also you, this article may help you.
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