Women Healing Through Crisis by Joanna Poppink

Drop the veil and let your light shine

"Don’t let someone dim your light, simply because it’s shining in their eyes."  *quote source below

Boston Marathon Bombings. What You Can Do.

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Boston. OMG. The question flooding shock, helplessness, anger, fear, despair is, "What can I do?"

From the atomic age to this. It's not the world we knew. When my patients and I talk about the bombing, the best I can say with the truth of my heart is that each of us must be well.

Exploring the feeling and power of dread

Writing about dread in connection with eating disorders has raised many feelings and memories in eating disorder recovery readers.  Here I write about real and fantasy based dread.

Delighted that Healing Your Hungry Heart Reviewer, Leora Fulvio, Saw the Intention Behind the Writing

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In Leora Fulvio's beautiful review of Healing Your Hungry Heart: recovering from your eating disorder she says:

"Joanna writes as if she’s sitting there in the room with you, holding your hand and saying, “yes, I’ve been there, I know what it’s like, but look at me, I’ve really found peace with food, it’s so hard, but I know that you can do it too, and I’m here to help you.”

Weaving Your Life

When you find and honor the threads of your true self, you can follow those threads and weave a life story for yourself that is rich in meaning and satisfaction.  *

Are you exhausted from racing to keep up with endless tasks?

Replenishing your mind, heart and soul energizes you and gives you a fresh perspective that can help you simplify your challenging tasks. But if you have an eating disorder, you may try to do more than is possible in a day. Or you may postpone tasks and grow anxious as you watch hours slip by, bringing dreaded deadlines closer.

Freedom to think and speak: have you got it?

Freedom to speak assumes, I hope, that your mind is free to think and your speech reflects your thoughts. But is your mind free?

What Brand Is Your Therapist? Connecting client with therapist in the best way.

If you want to recover from your eating disorder you 

want a therapist you believe can help you. You want 

someone who understands you and your situation, 

can listen and genuinely hear with compassion and 

wisdom what you have been unwilling to share with 

others or even yourself.  You want someone who can 

go the distance with you as you embark on your 

recovery journey that will lead to what you can’t

imagine from here. How do you find that person?

Healing Through Thankfulness

This Thanksgiving, when the question is asked, "What are you thankful for?" how will you answer? Rallying your gifts and compentencies to give to others brings you more self confidence and self appreciation, qualities necessary for eating disorder recovery.

Therapy When Your Crisis Has Passed

You came to your psychotherapy because you were in emotional crisis or because you felt a crisis brewing. In this instant result demanding culture you may find it difficult to understand the immense benefits in staying in therapy after your crisis passes and you are in your normal routine.