Here you will find discussion and personal stories related to the particular stresses and challenges that come with holidays and special occasions.
Suggestions and recommendations are here for moving through these special days as best you can, depending on your level of recovery.
Thanksgiving Food Fears? Get Help Now
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Family Thanksgiving Dinner: Two Vital Coping Strategies
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Plan ahead: Phase One: Coping with the inevitable This week end before Thanksgiving Thursday, look into your mind and heart for answers to questions about your family. Be honest. Who are these people? You know them well. If you must have expectations, expect them to be who they are.
Coping with Feelings after New Years
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As you move through this first month of the New Year, I recommend that you read or re-read Joseph Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces. This is the classic that can guide your through your journey to eating disorder recovery.
5 Tips for Self Care in Recovering from New Year's Stress and High Hopes
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New Years aftermath
The week after New Years can be tough. Fantasies around New Years may be more powerful than Christmas wishes. New Years is often a time of hope for the end of eating disorder symptoms.
Tips as Cure? The following recovery tips are not a cure for bulimia or anorexia or binge eating. But they are a way to catch hold of some health so you can take the steps necessary for solid recovery. And wouldn't that be a nice way to start the New Year?
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- Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah!
- Days after Christmas - Part I - Traditional
- Days After Christmas -Part II Christmas alone
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- New Year's Resolutions: Good or Triggering?
- Eating Disorder Emergency Tips for New Years
- Greet the New Year with a Gratitude Journal
- Family Visits and the Holiday Season
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