Periodically I am asked about influences in my life from mentors. I've been thinking, until just this minute, about living mentors I been gifted with in my life. But I also have powerful mentors I've never known. One of the best is Winston Churchill. Yes, Winston Churchill helps me in eating disorder recovery.
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You are a living force that strives to heal and prosper in a living world. Awakening to this knowledge puts you on your eating disorder recovery path, no matter your age or the severity of your illness. Once you are aware, healing resources abound.
I watched the documentary "Sedona: The Spirit of Wonder" last night. I was attracted to the film because I visited Sedona five years ago and was fortunate to have a private jeep tour - just the driver and me. Anytime I felt attracted to a place, we would aim for the spot and stop there.
I stood in silence - human and jeep silence - so I could hear the sounds of the land and feel what was there for me to feel. I climbed rocks, found ancient carvings and drawings, and visited ruins of dwellings in the majestic red rocks.
I marveled at the golden flowers of riotous blooming cactus. Sedona found tiny openings in my heart and my imagination, infiltrated my soul and expanded me in ways I'm still learning about.
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Eating Disorders and Sleep Deprivation
Sleep deprivation is often an aspect of an eating disorder. You don't want to lose consciousness. You don't want that vulnerable feeling of going into a dim twilight state that takes you into dark sleep. It feels too much like the beginning of an anxious or terror experience.
So you delay going to bed. You watch TV or DVD and fall asleep on the couch. The sounds of the player, the voices especially, continue to fill the room.
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Binge Eating and First Psychotherapy Appointment
When a new patient who is a binge eater walks into my Los Angeles office for her first session, she often feels afraid, hopeful, desperate, determined and skeptical. She is energized by an inner courage to make her life better by means she doesn't understand. Nothing else has worked, so she has decided to try psychotherapy. Since I'm a specialist in eating disorder recovery, she chooses to see me.
I hope she'll stay to do the real and effective work I know is possible. I've seen so many people who lose massive amounts of weight through various diets and weight loss programs only to gain it back and more. They feel terrible about themselves for failing. They do not believe the words, "You didn't fail. The program or diet failed."
Psychotherapy is Effective Long Term
Over at Rutgers University, a long-term study now backs up those words.
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