Eating disorder recovery: using inspirational guides
October 28, 2014 by Joanna Poppink
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Close observation first shows you the rose and droplets. Soon you are on an inner journey.
Inspiring quotes and images can open your mind, invigorate your heart, refresh your soul and inspire your creative path. They offer support to your courage and commitment as you are steadfast on your path to eating disorder recovery.
Try using inspirational quotes in your journal and meditations.
- Choose what seems right, familiar or challenging.
- Choose what is being said that you have felt and known but never had words to express yourself.
- Especially, choose what you like but seems too good to be true for you.
“Whatever you can do or dream you can,
begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic.”
— Goethe
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“The longest journey
Is the journey inwards.
Of him who has chosen his destiny.–
— Dag Hammarskjold
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“The journey of a thousand miles
begins with one step.”
— Lao Tzu (570-490 B.C.E.)
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“We usually don’t look.
We overlook.”
— Alan Watts
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“Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us.”
— Joseph Campbell
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“To know something, then, we must be scrubbed raw,
the fasting heart exposed.”
— Gretel Ehrlich
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“I have a feeling that my boat has struck,
down in the depths,
against a very great thing.”
— Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881-1958)
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“It’s not the road ahead that wears you out —
It’s the grain of sand in your shoe.”
— old Arabian proverb
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“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old,
seek what they sought.”
— Matsuo Basho
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“I will study and get ready,
and maybe the chance will come.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Write these quotes, and others you discover, in your journal on fresh pages. Let them guide your writings until the quote awakens something in you. And then journal about what is awakening.
To recover from repetitive constraints of an eating disorder you need to awaken to your new consciousness that is eager to be freed from your own dark depths. Use these quotes as keys to unlock your inner prison doors. Let your healed and healthy self pour out on the pages of your journal and then into your life.
Joanna Poppink, MFT Los Angeles private practice psychotherapist, author of Healing Your Hungry Heart: recovering from your eating disorder. Website: Eating Disorder Recovery.
Her practice is virtual, on Facetime, Skype and Doxy.me. For a free telephone consultation write joanna@poppink.com
