Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from by Jenni Schaefer

By Jenni Schaefer

A distinct new method of treating consuming issues 8 million ladies within the usa be afflicted by anorexia nervosa and/or bulimia. For those girls, the line to restoration is a rocky one. Many succumb to their consuming issues. existence with out Ed deals desire to all those that be afflicted by those usually lethal problems. For years, writer Jennifer Schaefer lived with either anorexia and bulimia. She credit her profitable restoration to the approach she realized from her psychologist, Thom Rutledge. This groundbreaking publication illustrates Rutledge's method. As within the author's case, readers are inspired to consider an consuming disease as though it have been a unique being with a character of its personal. additional, they're inspired to regard the ailment as a courting instead of as a situation. Schaefer named her consuming ailment Ed; her restoration concerned "breaking up" with Ed stocks the issues of view of either sufferer and therapist during this method of therapy is helping humans see the sickness as a dating from which they could distance themselves strategies to defeat unfavorable recommendations that plague consuming ailment sufferers Prescriptive, supportive, and inspirational, lifestyles with no Ed exhibits readers how they can also conquer their consuming issues.

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I sat down on his couch and said, “I feel horrible. I just relapsed. I don’t think I can do it. ” He replied, “You don’t have an eating disorder. You don’t have any problems at all. ” I answered, “Well, I certainly feel like I have problems. And I do have an eating disorder. ” “Whatever,” he said, “It’s simple. You just need to eat three meals a day. No big deal. ” I was not in the mood to convince my friend that I had an eating disorder and to prove that such an illness really is lifethreatening, so I left.

Perfectionist. I could distinguish between her voice and mine, but I still agreed with her and did what she wanted me to do. Today our dialogue sounds more like this: Ms. Perfectionist: Jenni, you can’t go to that party tonight. Jenni: I am going to the party. All of my friends will be there, and I really want to go. Ms. Perfectionist: You can’t go, because you binged today. You were not perfect today, and you don’t deserve to go. And besides you look too fat. Jenni: I did binge today, but that doesn’t mean I need to deprive myself of fun tonight.

It made me really angry to see how much influence—no, control—Ed had over my life. I felt ashamed that I had listened to him so many times. I had done some horrible things. But I realized that I did not need to wallow in shame, because my value system, which is what I really believe in, was still intact and strong. I just needed to make a greater effort to connect to it in my daily life—especially when Ed was around. After much practice and frustration, I have learned how to stay focused on my true values in life, and I am more at peace with myself, because I am not living a contradiction.

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