Down Economy, Shaky Finances, Job Search and Eating Disorders

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If you have an eating disorder and you are out of work or your job has been downsized so much that you need an additional or better source of income, you may be frightened and taking on more personal blame than is yours.  Your eating disorder symptoms, especially the distorted thinking and logic that accompanies any eating disorder, can impede your progress financially and in the job market itself.

Eating Disorder Symptoms That Hold You Back

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Breaking Patterns for Recovery

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I'm back, and I've been breaking patterns in my life.  The past year I've spent in writing my eating disorder self help recovery book.

Writing the book taught me more about the healing and recovery journey.  One aspect that continually came up for me is the importance of breaking patterns.

Check List for Staying in Eating Disorder Recovery

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Once you start your path to eating disorder recovery, how can you keep going?  What happens when your good intentions begin to slip away? How can you bring them back?

Eating disorder recovery, or recovery from disordered eating whatever form that takes, is not about finding and sticking to a diet.  But the pattern of failure can be familiar as you lose momentum in your recovery work. To stay on your healing path you need

Eating disorder recovery journal: tip for increasing value of your entries

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Eating disorder recovery advances more quickly and thoroughly if you combine journal writing with your psychotherapy and treatment program.  You can gain even more value from your journal by using an "unpacking" technique.