Well its been a week of changes again. I have come to find that with recovering from an eating disorder no matter how far along the road of recovery you are on, things are put in front of you to try to and to see if you are strong enough to managed the issues and to maintain good eating habits.
I have thought about so many different things this week and, have managed to get a lot of my thoughts down on my phone as notes to work on for my book that is in progress.
I did get myself an interesting book at the start of the week on cognitive behavioral therapy for eating disorders. As an adult dealing with an eating disorder and recovery, I have had the best and worst sides of dealing with my recovery. I have been old enough to know better with what I was doing to myself with restricting my food, but so caught up so much in the eating disorder to not be able to stop, until I worked out what was triggering me to restrict and over exercise. During my recovery I became my own therapist, I found a way to work out my trigger(s) and to work this out I would write a certain word in a rectangle on a piece of paper and then descriptive words and short phrases around it but connected with lines. This was a very practical way to release built up emotions that I found hard to release, but could do it on paper. Even now when I have a week like I have had I can put pen to paper, or fingers to keys, and put my thoughts and feelings down, so I don't have to constantly carry them around and think over and over again and cause more problems which can cause relapses. This book is more of a technical book for therapists, but I feel that by reading it I will learn more ways of dealing with my own recovery and even maybe one day being able to help others.
Have a great weekend everyone...
Hayley xx
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