
If you want to start, improve or speed up your eating disorder recovery you may ask, "I know what I'm supposed to do and what I want to do. Why can't I do it?"
A kind of circle develops between my patients, my garden and me where we share and appreciate the giving and receiving that is happening naturally for the benefit of all of us.
*pix View from my office window. Patient waiting area is to the right in the shaded area not visible.
In social media where people with eating disorders call out to each other look for support, try to find recovery, and give warnings to others about what treatment didn't work, the shared pain, fear and frustration is clear.
*pix (Functioning in the world without an eating disorder can be just as daunting as functioning on the moon. Both require new learning and practice.)
You focus on your recovery to stop pain and live a better life. Yet your personal recovery efforts mean much more than your own health and prosperity.
The people in and around your life will benefit from your health and ability to take positive action and share your gifts in the world.
Yet there is more. Those of us who have or had an eating disorder are metaphors for the imbalanced consumption human beings demonstrate around the world. Our eating disorders and global consumption disorders affect every phase of our lives and every phase of life on this planet..See: Humanity's consumption disorders
Meaning of Sustainability:
"Sus" comes from Latin and means "stand up."
"Tenere" the source of "tain" comes from Latin and means "hold."
Isn't that the goal of recovery? To be able to stand up for yourself and hold your existence?
Your recovery journey has tremendous value, starting with yourself and moving to the people you love and who love you. The value spreads to your community, your culture, your country and the world.
You can know this now, regardless of what stage of recovery you are in. You matter and every recovery step you take matters. I include the steps you might consider slips or falls. They are part of the journey.
So many people in recovery and after recovery ask me, "How can I help others?" People with eating disorders want to help others recover. They want their journey to mean something in this world.
You don't have to wait until you are recovered to bring valuable lessons of meaning and help to this troubled world. Your struggle and pathway to recovery is in itself the valuable teaching example the world needs.
So think big and bigger. Your recovery is about you, and it is about much more than you.
Questions for you:
How would you think differently about yourself if you knew that your personal recovery effort
Think big and bigger. And please know, your efforts to recover can save your life and the lives of countless others.
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Recovery work involves developing your mind, heart, body and soul from a fragile and insubstantial state to a more mature and capable condition that is your authentic you.
You can heal your way, develop your way, grow your way out of an eating disorder. Solid recovery from an eating disorder is not about fighting the disorder and winning. That gives an incorrect impression that you remain the same and the eating disorder leaves. Solid recovery occurs when you no longer need your eating disorder to cope with the stresses and challenges in your life now or in the future. * pix
The New York Times, in the April 25, 2011 issues, ran a pessimistic article that risks leaving readers with the idea that you cannot recover
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