Tag: step 2

• Writing Your Own Step 2

  Traditional EDA/AA 12 Step Language for Step 2: Came to believe that a Higher Power could restore us to sanity. Charlotte Kasl writes that the most imporant elements of step two are “hope, faith, and developing strength.” She writes, “When we’re about to give up an addiction or dependency, it sometimes feels as if we’re…

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  January 19, 2023

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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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  January 19, 2023

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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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  January 19, 2023

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