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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.
Reflections on Eating Disorder Recovery: development and narcissistic abuse
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After over 30 years of doing eating disorder recovery work with adults I see examples of how the disorder developed as a way of coping with otherwise insurmountable emotional distress.
The cause may be a natural developmental weakness or a healthy developmental process that is thwarted by subtle or blatant trauma. Cause varies with the individual. Either way, and recovery has to do with rebooting and nurturing the natural and healthy developmental process in the person.
Power of Warmth and Kindness in Healing
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"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child." Carl Jung
If, when you look back at a stressful time in your life, check to see where even only moments of warmth and kindness touched you. If you find those moments, remember, and build on those gifts to your soul that helped you survive.
Self-Talk for more personal space and freedom
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Using dream analysis and guided imagery methodology you can dialogue with your obstacles and discover opportunity. Here’s an example that gives both sides of your dilemma a voice.
Virtual Psychotherapy: what's it like? a video
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If you are new to psychotherapy or new to the psychotherapist you are considering, what's it like to start work online? Your questions may include:
1. What's it like to be with this person?
2. How will I feel with her?
3. I get a sense of a person when I am with them. How will I get that sense over a monitor?
4. I need support and warmth. Isn't virtual psychotherapy cold?
5. How can I share intimate personal information to a stranger on a screen?
6. How can she know me if she just sees my face on a screen?
7. What happens in online psychotherapy?
8. I need help. Can this kind of therapy work?
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