Another exercise from “8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder: Effective Strategies from Therapeutic Practice and Personal Experience” is to review many cognitive distortions and see which ones apply to me. Below are the distortions I think affect me. All or nothing thinking: This is also known as black and white thinking or perfectionistContinue reading “Unbalanced/Distorted Ways of Thinking (recovery exercise)”
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the ghosts of yesteryears (poem)
what happens in the space betweenwithin the tiny dots connecting timemoving us from one second to the next what happens in the overridewhen addiction surpasses reasonmaking the body bow down to unholy gods a fervor arrives in rapid descentdriving the fork in and out, up and downfaster and faster and faster until suddenly–!it is tooContinue reading “the ghosts of yesteryears (poem)”
Challenging Old Ideas and Rules (exercise)
My first exercise is to write out ideas and rules in my eating disorder voice and then challenge them with my healthy voice. Here goes…. My eating disorder is all my fault.Eating disorders are complicated and the result of unhealthy coping skills. It is not my fault. I’ll never have a normal relationship with food.IContinue reading “Challenging Old Ideas and Rules (exercise)”
Tasting Freedom 