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- Healing Your Hungry Heart: recovering from your eating disorder; excerpt from Chapter 4: how do I begin recovery? - by Submitted on Nov 27, 2011 from Joanna PoppinkHow Do I Begin Recovery? “What will open the door is daily awareness and attention.” --Krishnamurti ……Was this my starting point? I certainly thought so. But I had already chosen these people to be in my life. I created the opportunity for those events to happen long before I knew ...
Views: 1722(1 vote) - Healing Your Hungry Heart: recovering from your eating disorder; excerpt from Chapter 3: early warning signs - by Submitted on Nov 27, 2011 from Joanna PoppinkChapter 3 Early Warning Signs “Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.” --Albert Schweitzer Your first and ongoing challenge is to not judge yourself. Merciless self-condemnation is a symptom of an eating disorder. You may have people in place who do that for you – that’s ...
Views: 1446(1 vote) - Healing Your Hungry Heart: recovering from your eating disorder; excerpt from Chapter 1 unreal to real: snapshots of my story - by Submitted on Nov 27, 2011 from Joanna PoppinkHealing Your Hungry Heart: recovering from your eating disorder, By Joanna Poppink Chapter 1 Unreal to Real: Snapshots of My Story "Self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening." -- George Gurdjieff I started making myself throw up when I was thirteen ...
Views: 1290(1 vote) - Weight Loss Promises: Anger and Sorrow - by Submitted on Nov 23, 2009 from Joanna PoppinkI went to an all day seminar designed to help people lose weight at a very fancy hotel in the Los Angeles area today. I didn't stay long. So sad. The attendees were mostly fat, frightened women. The speakers, in my opinion, were using the platform to sell product and offer fast and easy ...
Views: 1457(1 vote) - Michael Jackson: Anorexia? - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2009 from Joanna PoppinkFor the past two nights I've been watching Michael Jackson videos on youtube. Here are a few. Beat It http://tinyurl.com/mxn8gy Billy Jean http://tinyurl.com/lqmt4w Thriller http://tinyurl.com/ypzb4r Michael Jackson & Brittany Spears live http://tinyurl.com/6nsjcw From New York Times: ...
Views: 3871(5 votes) - Number One Reason for Developing an Eating Disorder - by Submitted on May 28, 2009 from Joanna PoppinkHundreds of people have asked me why someone develops an eating disorder. Of course many issues are involved, but from my exploration of this field over the years, I have concluded that there is one outstanding theme that runs through every person with an eating disorder whom I have encountered. ...
Views: 1600 - Life Transitions in Eating Disorder Recovery - What Do I Do Now? - by Submitted on May 23, 2009 from Joanna PoppinkAt a certain stage in eating disorder recovery you discover new feelings that you don't act out over but don't understand. You have energy you don't know what to do with because you're not using it to binge or obsess. Old obsessive patterns that filled your time have fallen away, and you don't ...
Views: 1330 - Getting Better and Losing Friends - by Submitted on May 23, 2009 from Joanna PoppinkIf you are recovering from an eating disorder, whether it is bulimia, anorexia, compulsive overeating or binge eating, you are probably experiencing some upheaval in your personal relationships. You may not understand why your behavior and preferences in recovery are so upsetting to people in ...
Views: 2406 - Eating Disorder Recovery - by Submitted on May 23, 2009 from Joanna PoppinkRecovery is a continuing process. To start eating disorder recovery is to start a journey. To be on that journey is to be on your path to health and emotional and intellectual development. Your path leads to your true self, to your inner resources of courage, creativity, self respect, strength ...
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