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Further Step 4 Reading
Step Four (traditional language): Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. Step Four (example alternative language): Examined my life honestly and without judgement to see how my actions – and the ways I have been taught to hate myself – are causing harm to myself or others. Made a regular practice of recognizing…
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Writing our own alternative Step 3 Language!
Step Three Traditional Language: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God. Key components: Willingness/willingness to change, even when we’re scared Readiness to trust something outside of our eating disorder Willingness to accept different parts of ourselves – including parts that are scared…
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Step 4
Consider without shame or judgement, the thoughts, beliefs and behaviors we want to move away from, not because they make us bad or tell us anything about our character, but because they are keeping us from being present in our ‘wild and precious lives.’
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Monday, January 30 – STEP 3!
Traditional Step Three: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God. Adapted EDA Big Book Language + some thoughts from Charlotte Kasl: Until we reached Step Three, many of us were working toward recovery with the idea that we “must” have it, because…
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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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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…
