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    Eating Disorder Recovery Handbook
    Eating Disorder Recovery Handbook
    Eating Disorder Recovery Handbook
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    Eating Disorder Recovery Handbook

    By Lize Brittin

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    The Eating Disorder Recovery Handbook is not so much a step-by-step guide to recovery but more a book of suggestions that anyone can consider at any given time during recovery. The handbook offers suggestions, exercises, and ideas that anyone can consider at any given time during recovery from anorexia, bulimia, ENDOS, OSFED, binge eating and compulsive eating. This handbook is designed to help the reader find his or her own path to recovery. We are all unique, so what works for one person might not work for another. There are, however, key issues to address that can potentially help anyone reclaim health.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLize Brittin
    Release dateJun 17, 2017
    ISBN9781370466214
    Eating Disorder Recovery Handbook
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    Lize Brittin

    Lize Brittin was born in Boulder, Colorado in 1967 and has lived there for most of her life. As a high-schooler, she was a four-time Colorado state cross-country and track champion, and qualified twice for the Kinney (now Foot Locker) National Cross-Country Championship after winning the Kinney Midwest Regionals as a senior. At age 16, she set a women's record at the Pikes Peak Ascent, considered one of the most challenging mountain races in the country. Throughout her career as a world-class mountain runner, Lize also struggled with an eating disorder so severe it nearly killed her, being told by doctors at one point that she likely wouldn't make it thought the night. Eventually, though, she was able to overcome anorexia and now engages in efforts to spread the word that recovery from the illness is possible. Lize has written a manuscript about her struggles with anorexia and poor self-image, and hopes that she can shed some light on an illness that often leads people to withdraw not only from their loved ones but from meaningful living altogether. When not writing, Lize enjoys speaking to groups and on radio programs dealing with topics such as eating disorders and body image. She has been a guest on several Denver-area radio shows, including KGNU, KRFC and Green Light Radio. She has also been featured in several articles and publications, and has been involved in various Internet podcasts, including the Runners' Round Table and Women Talk Sports. In addition, Lize's blog, "Training on Empty," is part of the Women Talk Sports Network.

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      Eating Disorder Recovery Handbook - Lize Brittin

      Eating Disorder Recovery Handbook

      Lize Brittin

      Edited by Kevin Beck

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      Copyright 2017 Lize Brittin

      All rights are reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of the author.

      Thank you for respecting the author's work.

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Introduction

      What It’s All About

      Nourishment

      Body Image

      Healing

      Recovery

      Taking Action

      Friends and Family

      Cresourcesy

      CSuggestion Baskets

      CGlossarys

      About the Author and Editor

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      Introduction

      "There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore." -- Laurie Halse Anderson

      When I first started writing my memoir Training on Empty, it was partly to tell my personal story but mainly to offer hope and inspiration. I wanted to show others that recovery from anorexia and other eating disorders is possible.

      Not long after I wrote the book, I started a companion blog. As I have continued to build this over the years, I discovered anew that recovery is a process. Every year, I grow and learn new lessons. Recovery, a bona fide full recovery, is possible, but it takes staying one step ahead of the illness. It requires recognizing patterns and triggers, and finding new coping strategies in order to stay healthy. Most of all, it takes radical trust in yourself and total self-respect to truly get over an eating disorder.

      For over 20 years, I struggled with an eating disorder, primarily anorexia. It was a severe case, one that nearly killed me, and I spent time in hospitals, went to therapists, read books and even tried countless alternative therapies, all in an effort to overcome my illness and mostly in vain, though I can’t discount all I was able to take in along the way. I felt like I was on a quest for a magic pill. I was looking for answers outside myself, sure that something or someone could make me feel better.

      The more the illness consumed me, the more frantic and concerned my friends and family became. Their emotions ranged from frustration and anger to sadness. On some level, I understood that, in a way, I was choosing this agony, much like an alcoholic chooses to drink, but I felt completely stuck, unable to help myself. I knew there was a way out of the hell I was creating, but I couldn’t see how to free myself. I felt like I was in prison, but people kept saying I had put myself there. How could this be? On an intellectual level, I knew what I needed to do to get well, but I couldn’t seem to make a move, any move, in the right direction.

      My mom, who had overcome terrible hardship in her life, kept telling me that in order to recover, I had to want to get well, really want it. The results

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