Eating Disorder Recovery Helps

Bookmarks

Help yourself to free bookmarks with positive quotes.

Journaling Pages

For journaling exercises, download the free journaling pages.

Articles

To aid you in educating loved ones about eating disorders, download free articles entitled, Understanding Eating Disorders, Understanding Relapses and Put Yourself In Their Shoes. Also, to help you communicate your needs to loved ones, download the When You Look At Me messages.

Song Lyrics

For song lyrics and videos about eating disorders, body image and identity.

Poems

Poems about eating disorders and poems that are general in nature regarding freedom from bondage.

Ebooks

For more encouragement and inspiration, purchase an ebook. Inspiration For Your Journey contains poems and Encouragement For Your Journey contains note cards. These ebooks are specifically compiled for those with eating disorders.

Reaching For Freedom contains poems and Reaching For The Truth contains note cards. These ebooks are general in nature regarding freedom from bondage.

Freedom From Eating Disorders

Welcome to Freedom From Eating Disorders – providing hope, encouragement and inspiration for your eating disorder recovery. May this site be a haven for your soul.

Please visit often. Put visiting this site on your list of eating disorder coping skills. You can use this site as a distraction from engaging in eating disorder behaviors. On this home page, look for “This Month’s Musings” where you’ll find snippets about various eating disorder factors. In the section, “This Week’s Point To Ponder,” watch for a new verse, quote or thought-provoking question each week which relates to the topic for the month. You may want to use these features for journaling exercises. Perhaps you’d also like to discuss them with your counselor or with others in your support group or on your support message board.

The "Recovery Stories” page contains testimonials of those who have recovered from their eating disorders. May reading these stories encourage you to continue forward in your own eating disorder recovery.

To focus on the special person you are, uniquely created by God, see the "Christian Recovery" page and soak in the truth of those words. You'll also find the Serenity Prayer, an Eating Disorder Prayer, Psalms and information on identity in Christ. This is a great page for anyone who is considering or is in Christian eating disorder recovery.

To educate your loved ones about your eating disorder or if your loved one has an eating disorder, see the "Friends & Family" page. You'll find articles as well as links to other websites.

Find loads of articles, resources and treatment finders as well as message boards and more on the "ED Resources" page. You'll also find links to other great recovery and ministry sites.

When you want a break from everything or if you want something to distract you from eating disorder behaviors, go to the "Coping Skills" page to find reading material, humorous writings and links to humor websites.

During stressful moments, go to the “Serenity” page and enjoy calming pictures. You may want to lose yourself in these photos and take a minute vacation. Or perhaps you'd like to sketch them or write stories or poems about these pictures.

This Month's Musings

Suicidal Thoughts

The depression and desperation eating disorder sufferers sometimes feel can lead them to having suicidal thoughts. In fact, they may even engage in eating disorder behaviors as a slow form of suicide. This, of course, is a very sensitive and complicated issue.

I was suicidal myself. I have much to be thankful for that I never followed through with making an attempt. The one thing that held me back was that I couldn’t do this to my parents. I believe God kept one place in my heart filled with that thought to prevent me from making the worst mistake ever.

This Week's Point To Ponder

If you’re feeling suicidal, PLEASE reach out for help somewhere. Call an emergency hotline or someone. Your life is from God, it is precious and it shouldn’t be wasted.

If you'd like to read "Musings" and "Points To Ponder" from previous months, browse the "ED Articles" page. You'll also find links to other articles I've written on past topics which include Admitting An Eating Disorder, Fear, When Others Don't Understand, Relapses, Journaling, Prayer, Getting Help, Guilt, Shame, Comparison, Meal Plans, Scripture, Friend Or Foe, Control, Telling Others, Body Image, Support Groups, Depression, Pleasing Others, Scale, Sobering Moments.

Watch for the following topics in upcoming months - When Help Isn't Helpful, Perseverance, Clothes Shopping.

To Interact

I would love to hear from you. Go to the "Contact Me" page if you’d like to:

View the submission guidelines to submit your recovery story for the “Recovery Stories” page. Please pass on the word that I'm looking for more recovery stories.

Leave feedback about this website. I would love to hear about how you found this site, what you have gained from it, if you come back to visit on a regular basis, etc. I have added a lot of new features since I built the site, and I would appreciate your feedback.

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This website does not provide counseling and is not a substitute for professional help.

All scripture used on this website is from the New International Version unless otherwise indicated.