How Complete Recovery Feels

JUST FOR TODAY:  Honor your feelings as you experience endings and welcome new beginnings as part of your journey of recovery.

As part of your eating disorder recovery, you have learned very much about yourself, your feelings and your true needs.  You have gradually let go of binge eating, purging, restrictive eating, and any other eating disordered behavior.  You find yourself at peace with food, able to eat intuitively while trusting your body to be a healthy weight.  You have discovered positive ways of  dealing with any challenges you encounter.  You know what it's like to enjoy complete recovery.  You remember all of the significant people and situations, serving as guides on your path of freedom.  You have created anchors, which symbolize what recovery means to you.  You have a range of emotions as you reflect upon your eating disordered past, and experience its ending.  You witness the sunrise, with the eyes of your soul, and you welcome your new beginning.   This day and every day, you are free!

©2010 by "Dr. Dorie" McCubbrey, M.S.Ed., Ph.D. – Eating Disorder & Obesity Treatment Specialist – Denver, Colorado