What You’re Doing Now is Incredible
Eating disorder recovery doesn’t happen on a schedule.
Ups and downs are the norm, not the exception. And while none of us could have anticipated the stress and toll of this long moment, I see you doing the best you can.
In the name of building yourselves up, please celebrate your wins, no matter how small or compared-to-normal-less-significant. There is no need to compare what you’re doing now to what you might have done before.
What you’re doing now is incredible.
Things you can consider in this moment to challenge your eating disorder:
1. Start writing down an eating disorder self/healthy self-dialogue. Take any topic that your eating disorder throws at you. Write it down. And using your healthy self, or wishes that you would send to a human that you love, write your way through the discussion. Be sure to end on the healthy self voice.
Simply engaging your eating disorder in this fashion starts to create new neural pathways to help you fight back. Even if you don’t believe the arguments that you make with your eating disorder to be true for you, and are doing so only on behalf of a human you love, starting the dialogue changes your brain.
2. Follow a structured eating pattern. Even if you don’t want to. Especially if you don’t want to. Regular meals, regular snacks. This is helpful for all eating disorders.
3. If you are in a place to incorporate a challenge food, try doing so by incorporating it as part of an organized meal or snack instead of attempting it on its own. Coming at a challenge food from a place of body hunger will add an extra layer of difficulty. Be gentle.
I hope you have access to a treatment team. Please keep your appointments. And if you don’t have a treatment team, please take advantage of the support that is being offered virtually.
You matter. Your healing matters.
Share an in-this-moment recovery win here. Inspire me. Inspire each other. WRITE IT DOWN. Let yourself progress be acknowledged.
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