In case you missed the first post, I joined an ED blogger book club that’s reading “Eating in the Light of the Moon.”  This week is Chapter 2: The Buried Moon – Rediscovering the Feminine.  Also, I think I failed to mention this last time, but I skip all the fables (or whatever you want to call them) in the book.  Not my thing.  Hopefully someone else picks up my slack and blogs about them.
Anyway, I can sum up the chapter in one line:
Women who struggle with disordered eating more …

Recently, a couple of girls started a blogger book club. Since my book club in “real life” has turned into a wine club for women who like to read, I was pretty excited about the idea. It’s like group book analysis. Group psych book analysis. The only way it could be more up my alley were if it were group House M.D. analysis.
We’re starting with Eating in the Light of the Moon, by Anita Johnson. It’s a good choice, as Anita has a unique approach …

There are lots of reasons to NOT seek treatment, and many of them are valid. However, reasonable or not, they are still excuses and they help keep you sick.

Note: While there is REAL research on barriers to treatment, this post only contains my opinion. Maybe I’ll blog about the factual stuff later…

Many months ago, there was an awesome cartoon on Therapy Tales that I have been dying to expand upon. It starts like this:
I’ve often thought about what my therapist would say were I to tell her about my blog. I bet she’d be thinking something like the following (note: I am NOT the artist that Therapy Tales is!):

Yeah, I don’t think we’ll be having this conversation any time soon…

Several weeks ago I wrote a post — that I never published — titled, “I need an iPad for recovery.” There has been a lot of negative press about eating disorders and technology, so in contrast I’m going to explain how I’ve used my iPhone / iPad to aid my recovery…

In Agile development, the focus factor (or productivity factor) is used for planning to help determine how many “real hours” you have to work on something. It’s the difference between “real hours” and “ideal hours.” I was thinking about how the eating disorder would affect my focus factor, and tried to break down the components into a pie chart…

It has occurred to me lately how often I say “I don’t know” in my appointments (possibly even more often than I say “I know” !). My therapist has come to totally disregard the phrase, which for me, has become very versatile:

Type 1: the how-did-you-feel-in-that-situation “I don’t know”

I could not, would not, on a boat.
I will not, will not, with a goat.
I will not eat them in the rain.
I will not eat them on a train.
Not in the dark! Not in a tree!
Not in a car! You let me be!

I just couldn’t resist…
On the 12th day of Christmas,
my therapist gave to me…

12 new feeling words
11 prying questions
9 self-affirmations …

There are lots of situations where I’m tempted to say “use your words!” (don’t worry, I usually resist the urge). Often this is with the ED, becuase often people use their eating disorders to communicate. I’m a huge offender.