Lee Wolfe Blum is a Health Educator at Park Nicollet Eating Disorders Institute where in addition to her job with patients, she runs a weekly support group at the hospital for friend's and family of ED (Eating Disorder) strugglers. She also previously worked with recovering alcoholics and addicts with eating disorders.... Read More...
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I am writing this in response to a comment from Erica regarding feeling hopeless.
Is there hope?
The question I am asked most often.
Is there hope after 16 inpatient treatments?
Is there hope after relapse?
Is there hope for a daughter who has been struggling for 20 years?
Peter: Well I will not grow up! You cannot make me! I will banish you like Tinkerbell.
Wendy: I WILL NOT BE BANISHED!
Peter: Then go home. Go home and grow up. And take your feelings with you!
Peter Pan is one of my favorite musicals. And I am reminded of it often while working with patients with eating disorders.
Friend’s and Family of those struggling with Eating Disorders
Your feet hurt don’t they? You have been walking all over those eggshells haven’t you?
But why?
Because you are afraid you don’t know what to say to them?
Because anything you do say might set them off?
