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Recovery Quote Of The Week: May 23rd, 2009

"The best way out is always through."
Robert Frost

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drawing by: Frits Ahlefeldt
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Recovery Quote Of The Week: May 13th, 2009

"The time is always right to do what is right."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Recovery Quote Of The Week: May 4th, 2009

"Do not let your fire got out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration of the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle."
Ayn Rand

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Eating Disorders And Art Therapy

Art therapy can be a very beneficial tool in the treatment of eating disorders. Here are some examples of how others have used art to help their recovery.

"FAITH. HOPE. LOVE. LIGHT. These are all real pictures of me. Now, a little more than a year later, my health and heart are filled with hope. We are all beautiful and we all deserve to live the lives we have dreamed. While in my eating disorder I was dead to the world, now in recovery I am a goddess of the earth. I never thought that I would survive the ups and downs of my recovery but pain doesn't last forever and the battle gets easier if you stand strong. God Bless, keep faith, RECOVERY IS POSSIBLE. You are a blessing to this earth and you deserve all that you can dream."
Video by brittybr

"I've always found art to be a creative and soothing outlet for my emotions, particularly the art of collaging. These are a collection of collages from the past 5 years as i've worked towards recovery."
Video by Shanzeeegirl

"Karin used art therapy to deal with her eating disorder. Now she makes spoon pendants and sees the beauty that can be created out of mistakes."
Video by RealWomenRealAdvice

See also:
The Use Of Art Therapy In The Treatment Of Eating Disorders
Relapse Prevention: Eating Disorder Recovery

Recovery Quote Of The Week: March 5th, 2009

"Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born."
Dr. Dale Turner

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Recovery Quote Of The Week: Feb 27th, 2009

"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live."
Flora Whittemore

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Anorexia: What You Want, What You Get

Another excelent video by Holdingon.

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Recovery Quote Of The Week: Feb 19th, 2009

"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

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Recovery Quote Of The Week: Feb 9th, 2009

"Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion."
Buddha

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Eating Disorder Recovery: One Woman's Story

Video By: Ilovegooner

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BULIMIA: You Are Not Alone

A video by TallSkinnyCappuccino

Additional Information:
Bulimia Nervosa
Warning Signs Of Bulimia
Laxative Abuse For Weight Loss
Diuretic Abuse For Weight Loss

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Recovery From An Eating Disorder Is Possible

A recovery video by elbie1230

See also:

Eating Disorder Recovery: Relapse Prevention

Eating Disorder Help: Hotlines, Organizations, and Websites

UPDATED Eating Disorder Help: Hotlines, Organizations, and Websites

*If you know of a hotline, website, and/or organization not listed here please leave me the information in the comment section and I'll be glad to add them.
Thank You.

Hotlines:

Anorexia Nervosa and Associate Disorders (ANAD) 1-630- 577-1330
Boys and girls Town National Hotline: 1-800- 448-3000
National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) 1-800-931-2237
Mental Health America: 1-800-969-NMHA
National Suicide Hotline at 1-800-SUICIDE (784-2433)
Referrals to Eating Disorder specialists (US and Canada) 1-800-736-3739
The Eating Distress Helpline (Ireland):011-44-2600366
Thursday's Child National Call Center for at Risk Youth: 1-800-USA-KIDS
Youth Crisis Line: 1- 800-HIT-HOME

Resources: (links)

UK/Ireland: (some headings are links)

Anorexia and Bulimia Care: 01462 423351
beat - beat eating disorders Helpline: 0845 6341414
Bodywhys: 1890 200 444
Caraline: 01582 457474
National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence: 020 7067 5800
Northern Initiative on Women & Eating:0191 261 7010
SupportLine: 020 8554 9004
The Eating Distress Helpline (Ireland): 011-44-2600366
The International Eating Disorders Centre: 01296 330557
The National Centre for Eating Disorders (NCFED): 0845 838 2040
Threshold Women's Mental Health Infoline: 0808 808 6000
Women and Eating: 0191 261 7010
Young Minds: 0800 018 2138
Youth Helpline: 0845 6347650

Recovering From An Eating Disorder: In Their Own Words

"Recovery One Day At A Time." Another wonderful video by Holdingon.
See more of her videos here.

source:Youtube.com

Poll: My Recovery, One Word At A Time

What words help define your experience with your ED Recovery? In the sidebar you will find an anonymous poll, My Recovery, One Word At A time, where you can share your words with others who are also in recovery from their ED, and help those that aren't in recovery (or are attempting to recover) to relate and better understand.

If the list is missing words that are important to you and your experience please feel free to share them in the comment section to this post.

Participation is always greatly appreciated. Thank You.

Completed Poll Results:

My Recovery, One Word At A Time (choose as many words as you feel relate to your ED recovery).
Votes: 26


					Joy 8 (30%) Freedom 11(42%)
					Security 3 (11%)
					Identity 12 (46%)
					Elusive 4 (15%)
					Community 4 (15%)
					Fear 17 (65%)
					Difficult 20 (76%)
					Fleeting 3 (11%)
					Enduring 3 (11%)
					Happy 6 (23%)
					Anxiety 14 (53%)
					Support 10 (38%)
					Affirming 6 (23%)
					Effortless 0 (0%)
					Failing 12 (46%)
					Attempting 12 (46%)
					Succeeding 6 (23%)
					Desired 15 (57%)
					Unwanted 5 (19%)
					Renewed 5 (19%)
					Unnecessary 2 (7%)
					Assisted 4 (15%)
					Monitored 5 (19%)
					Depressing 10 (38%)
					Inspired 7 (26%)
					Considering 3 (11%)
					Unassisted 2 (7%)
					Panic 10 (38%)
					Apprehensive 9 (34%)
					Scary 15 (57%)
					Amazing 12 (46%)

More Polls/Results

Eating Disorders: Inspirational Recovery Quotes #5

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Mark Victor Hansen

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
Ben Stein

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

Michael Korda

You can't pick the hand you're dealt, but you can choose how you play your cards.
T. H

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.
Jerry Gilles

When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: Either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
Edward Teller

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.
Anonymous

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Loyd Wright

Flowers grow out of darker moments.
Corita Kent

Always direct your thoughts to those truths that will give you confidence, hope, joy, love, thanksgiving, and turn away your mind from those that inspire you with fear, sadness, depression.
Bertrand Wilbertforce

Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Ralph Hodgson

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
Les Brown

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

It's not what you go through that defines you; you can't help that. It's what you do AFTER you've gone through it that really tests who you are.
Kwame Floyd

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.
James Allen

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Dr. David Schwartz

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
Dale Carnegie

Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.
Ernest Holmes

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
Bernard Williams

Listen to the mustn'ts child.
Listen to the don'ts.
Listen to the shouldn't haves,
the impossibles, the won'ts.
Listen to the never haves,
then listen close to me.
Anything can happen child.
Anything can be.
Shel Silverstein

Eating Disorders: Inspirational Recovery Quotes #4

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-George Eliot-

He who has hope has everything.
-Arabian Proverb-

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
-Thomas Edison-

Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget about everything except what you're going to do now - and do it.
-William Durant-

You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.
-Dan Millman-

Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
-Og Mandino-

Determination, patience and courage are the only things needed to improve any situation.
-Peter Sinclair-

Just go out there and do what you've got to do.
-Martina Navratilova-

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
-Dale Carnegie-

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.
-Blaine Lee-

Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.
-Unknown-

The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
-David O. McKay-

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult - once we truly understand and accept it - then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.
-M Scott Peck-

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
-Booker T. Washington-

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
-Earl Nightingale-

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.
-Zig Ziglar-

Picture in your mind a sense of personal destiny.
-Wayne Oates-

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
-Dale Carnegie-

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.
-Kahlil Gibran-

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
-Napoleon Hill-

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
-Louis L. Mann-

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
-Horace-

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
-Ben Okri-

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
-Helen Keller-

Faith in one's self... is the best and safest course.
-Michelangelo-

To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
-Sugar Ray Robinson-

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
-Joanne Kathleen Rowling-

I need to put things in perspective because I have a disease of perception.
-Unknown-

Resentment is like you taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
-Unknown-

It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another, without helping himself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

This one step - choosing a goal and sticking to it - changes everything.
-Scott Reed-

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.
-Mark Twain-

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.
-Pablo Picasso-

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite well that just to be alive is a grand thing.
-Agatha Christie-

When you dance with a gorilla it is the gorilla who decides when to stop.
-Unknown-

Please see "Inspirational Recovery Quotes" in sidebar for links to more recovery quotes.

See also Using Affirmations

Sources:
http://www.realmentalhealth.com/inspiration/inspirational_quotes_recovery.asp
http://thinkexist.com/quotes/with/keyword/recovery/
http://www.recovery-man.com/rec_quotes.htm
http://fishyvb.something-fishy.org/
picture source: MrsMenopausal

Size Ate: One Woman's Search For The Perfect Fit

Size Ate is the one-woman show of Margaux Laskey which chronicles her struggles with eating disorders and body image. Slim fast dieting and dealing with anorexia at the age of 13, body image, culture, and food are some of the issues she speaks of.

Her blog describes her show as, "one woman's search for the perfect fit. whatever the hell that is. she’s eaten too little, she’s eaten too much, she’s weighed too little, she’s weighed too much, she’s been too little, she’s been too much. interested in exploring and challenging the culturally accepted standards of too anything and encouraging others to do the same. this blog and her one-woman show of the same name are expressions of this exploration. take a bite."

Most of us are guilty of the mindset that we'll be better off/more loved/accepted/worthy when (if) we finally manage to get down to size ____. Yes, life will be good then. Life will be perfect. We see ourselves as numbers. Numbers on a scale, measuring tape, clothing tag.

Size Ate "chronicles this futile quest for measured perfection and -- in a unique blend of monologue, poetry, and song -- illustrates the often opposing internal and external forces that drive us to obsession, addiction, and ultimately, something like self-acceptance."

"By turns heartbreaking and hysterically funny, size ate is one woman's honest commentary on -- and coming to terms with -- the labels, images, and assumptions we all live with."

More Margaux Laskey:
Sizeate.com
Size Ate Blog
Facebook
Myspace

Sources:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0O_d_8eGbY
http://www.myspace.com/sizeate1
http://www.sizeate.com/
http://www.sizeate.blogspot.com/
http://sizeate.blogspot.com/2008/03/facebook-size-ate-on-road.html

Starting Recovery From An Eating Disorder

Another wonderful ED recovery video by Holdingon.

sources: http://youtube.com/results?search_query=starting+recovery+from+an+eating+disorder&search_type=

Other Voices: Eating Disorders and Body Image

"Food is nourishment. This is an obvious fact. But eating disorders aren’t about nourishment, at least not nourishment for the body. If you have an eating disorder you eat too much or too little or of types of food that provide little or no physical sustenance..."
Read in full: Eating Disorder Recovery And Nourishing Your Right Hemisphere:
By Joanna Poppink, MFT

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"This may be the most difficult task of all: keeping your eating disorder at bay. Even when you’re doing well, it always seems to be there lurking, doesn’t it? ..."

Read in full: Keeping It At Bay: by Arielle Becker

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"This Mask I Wear"

"Only revealed in shadowwith steady gaze
the bare reflection
guarded
flesh
pale and colorless ..."

Read in Full: This Mask I Wear: By Angela Minard

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"HB 1432 will strengthen the Illinois mental health insurance parity law by providing fair and equal insurance coverage for those suffering from anorexia nervosa and bulimia..."

Read in full: Illinois House Bill 1432 To Provide Fair and Equal Coverage For Eating Disorders: By OhYeahBabe

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Information on Very Low Calorie DietsRead in full:Research on Very Low Calorie Diet (VLCD) Risks: By A Pinch Of Health

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Age 22 "I've always had the puppy fat, and it didn't bother me until, when I was about 9, my body became a target of bullying. So I started hating myself. My mum kept telling me it was puppy fat and it would go, but it didn't. I was teased. I was called ugly. Kids jeered at me from across the playground. I hated myself..."Read in full: The Body Image Project

Sources:
http://stopeatingdisorders.com/eating-disorder-recovery-and-nourishing-your-right-hemisphere
http://www.lookinggood-feelinggreat.co.uk/LatestNewsnbsp/Anorexia-increasingly-affecting-older-women-/tabid/54/articleID/18589448/Default.aspx
http://tearstowords.blogspot.com/2008/04/keeping-it-at-bay.html
http://hereandnow4angel.blogspot.com/2008/05/this-mask-i-wear.html
http://kimorexia.blogspot.com/2008/05/illinois-house-bill-1432-to-provide.html
http://www.apinchofhealth.com/resources/lowcarb/VLCD-Research.html
http://thebodyimageproject.blogspot.com/
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