Who will I be if I give up my eating disorder? What will my identity be? Sound familiar? Too familiar?? I know who you'll be. You'll be the best of you. The parts that remained undeveloped because of some sort of trauma or emotional neglect.
Find your passion and create a new identity, one that is engaged in life. I don't mean to make it seem easy, it's not! But, if you work with a professional and perhaps join a support group as well; you may find the knowledge and safety you need to become the person that you were meant to be.
The Road to Recovery - Healing from your Eating Disorder
Becoming connected and comfortable with your body, yourself, and your decisions.
The immense journey.
Are you at a point in your life where you really want to be free of your eating disorder? Perhaps it still is a friend to you but your family or friends are insisting that you get help. Whether you have been restricting, bulimic, or compulsively eating, your personal stories have a striking similarity in the real emotional pain you feel. I understand your pain and how difficult it may be to trust that there is a way out. After all, you struggle with trusting your own body so how could you trust others or believe in possibilities? Perhaps you spend so much time trying to be perfect in every way that you are left feeling exhausted. But of course you can’t quite be perfect enough to satisfy that hungry inner critic that constantly tells you that you are not good enough. So you may be left feeling empty inside. Do you have an over active mind that constantly is analyzing you and your life? Do you believe that people would not like you if they really knew you? Perhaps life seems like an endless struggle that you have been caught up in for so long, you really do not know who you are anymore. So how could you possibly feel happy when you are so afraid of becoming “fat?” Read More>>>
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
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