Psychotherapy and eating disorder recovery work take many forms. In this extensive grouping you'll find articles, links and discussions that include stories of individuals working through their healing process and descriptions of different treatment approaches. Issues include trust, bingeing, starving, sexuality, fear, anxiety, triumphs, abuse, shame, dream work, journal keeping and more. Discussions regarding insurance and finances are here as well. Reading these articles and participating in discussions will give you deep and varied windows into eating disorder recovery treatment.
Teenager wants to help her anorexic and bulimic friend Part I: The Request
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This heartbreaking request for help comes often and in many forms. A teenage girl finds out her best friend is bulimic and anorexic and wants to help her. I’ll make up some names for clarity.
The Story The story is always a variation on a theme.
Action for Your Authentic Life in Six Steps (Step Three may be the most difficult) Step Four
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Prepare a stable base for when you inevitably lose your balance. You will regroup in a new and more solid way.
Now you take on the task of working through the polarized tensions in yourself to evolve out of the status quo and into your more developed life.
Friends Change as You Heal in Eating Disorder Recovery
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When you have an eating disorder friends who are attracted to you are attracted to who you are and how you respond with your eating disorder intact. Friendships change as you change throughout your recovery work.
12 Discoveries in Early Eating Disorder Recovery
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"The most regretful people on earth are those that felt the call to creative work...& gave it neither power nor time."
~ Mary Oliver
Reinforcement and validation are all around you. Eating disorder recovery is a vital, valuable, soul saving, life enhancing endeavor. And your life enhancing path only begins as you recover. Your creative path is now about the real you.
As you become more free of your eating disorder ask yourself:
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