Weight Loss Surgery and Eating Disorders

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Category: Symptoms

Mirror Mirror is running an excellent factual article describing weight loss surgery: Weight Loss Surgery and Eating Disorders.

In my experience as an eating disorder recovery psychotherapist I've seen tragic outcomes from weight loss surgery. Yes, I grant that it's possible, for a person without an eating disorder, to reap medical benefits from the surgery. Weight loss does occur and can be helpful in health management.

Eating Disorder Recovery Wisdom from Green Peace

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Category: Psychotherapy and Recovery Work

Hope strategy based on pragmatic wisdom (Please read the article for wonderful details on the 15 principles.)

If you are working or struggling in recovery, please read this.

Change the story so that the opposing forces are your internal forces insisting that you maintain your unwanted behaviors and insisting that you are worthless. Then, look at the other forces, your internal forces that want health and recovery.

Especially look at your internal forces that are not engaged, are weak or dismissive or in denial. Then the strategies and support in this article can help you realign your internal world and move you toward the healthy revolution you need for a much better and healthier life.

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Poppink Eating Disorder Recovery Daily News

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Category: Healing Resources

10 titles in today's issue written by highly reputable people in the field.

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1. Battling a Regenerating Hydra
2. What is DBT?
3. Islam and Eating Disorders
4. Muscle Dysmorphia ...........Signs, Risks, Diagnosis, Treatment
5. Enhanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Eating Disorders
6. 5 Biggest Mistakes People Make With Food And Exercise
7. ‘Make it stop’: a man’s struggle with anorexia
8. 40 Things People With Eating Disorders Wish Others Understood
9. 9 Signs That You're a Narcissist
10. 10 Myths People With Eating Disorders Want to See Busted

Candid interview with Joanna Poppink, MFT, eating disorder recovery psychotherapist

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This profile of Joanna Poppink was published as part of Revlon’s “Love is On” 2016 Million Dollar Challenge, which highlighted inspiring change makers around the world and raised money for select charities. written by Jonah Weiss

You can describe Joanna Poppink in different ways — therapist, author, naturalist, essayist — but they’re all aspects of the same holistic project of her life’s work: helping women understand and overcome eating disorders.