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Alternative Step 2 Journaling Prompts
Goals and wishes for your life Nature The universe Love for family and/or friends Your own inner wisdom and desire to recover Trust in treatment team (like a therapist) or peer group Music Art Books Animals Write about how your life might be different if you relied on this and put faith in it over…
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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: Being honest with ourselves about our lives, including our eating disorder’s impacts. Recognizing that our eating…
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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: 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. “Accepting where we are at this point in our lives…
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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: live present in the rest of our wild & precious lives. avoid becoming compliant, obedient, and objectified. when we are not wasting energy trying to control our…
