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Alternative Step 2 Journaling Prompts
Write about how your life might be different if you relied on this and put faith in it over the eating disorder. 2. What experiences or parts of your life/the world give you hope? What experiences or parts of your life/the world give you strength? Again, these can be small things and things outside of…
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Alternative Ways to Think About Step 2 – Eating Disorder Recovery
Traditional step 2 language: We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. The EDA steps are adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous steps which were written in the 1950s. That language uses terms like “sanity” and “insanity” in a way that can feel stigmatizing and dated in terms of how…
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Wednesday, January 11: Writing Your Own Step 1
Tonight we’re going to work on writing our own versions of Step 1. Traditional EDA language (Adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous): We admitted we were powerless over our eating disorders, that our lives had become unmanageable. Summary of key components: Example alternatives: Many Roads is a peer support group for people who want to recover from…
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How does the eating disorder “try to help?” – Another Step 1 Journaling/Art/Reflection Prompt
Many of us realize that we turn to our eating disorders as a way to help ourselves feel better: by numbing, distracting, or otherwise helping us cope with difficult life circumstances. We want to be clear: many of us do have very real and challenging life issues like serious illness of ourselves or a family…
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What could life look like without an eating disorder? Step 1 Journaling/Art/Reflection Prompts
This step is about committing ourselves to growth and recovery and recommitting to honoring our own hearts, minds, bodies and values — over our eating disorders. In many 12 step programs, taking the first step often means writing a history of our illnesses – when they started, what form they took, and their consequences. The…
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Step One – An Expansive Approach
“Traditional” Language: “We admitted we were powerless over our eating disorders – that our lives had become unmanageable.” Thoughts: Journaling and discussion prompts for Step 1 (Adapted from Charlotte Kasl) Potential alternative wording for Step 1 to try on and experiment with: Many Roads is a peer group for those seeking to recovery from eating…
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Meditation on a new start for eating disorder recovery
The new year holds out the possibility that we can learn from the past but not be bound by it. That we can move away from self-defeating habits. That we can learn how to give ourselves what we need: body, mind, and spirit. That we will know that we are not too much or too emotional…
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Meditation on finding help and support for eating disorder recovery
Help is available — we don’t have to go it alone.Together we can do it: we can recover. Eating disorders are habits of lonelinessand isolation. To get well we need help, and that help is always available.Those of us who belong to a group of peers know we can call people who will be there for…
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What is recovery?
Recovery is getting enough consistent fuel and nutrition — and living free from the distraction that is trying to control food and our bodies — so we can: Many Roads is a free virtual eating disorder recovery support group. Join us for fellowship as we share experience, strength and hope, recovering from our eating disorders…
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