Use Your Gifts

I was working in eating disorders when I realized that I had kind of hit my limit in terms of what I could contribute. I had already published a manual teaching clinicians how to treat eating disorders. I made 400 pages of resources freely available. I taught many recorded lectures on how to do eating disorder treatment. I opened up a program that still exists at a hospital, but it felt like there was maybe more for me. So I had contributed and fulfilled my purpose, and that felt really complete. I was searching for what the next move was, and I really wanted to go into the consciousness space headlong, but it felt to me that there was a step I could not skip, which was to codify all of the twenty year experience that I have had as a psychologist, not just in eating disorders, but in suicide research, treating OCD, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, basically anything that exists. If it is a psychological disorder, I have treated it. So to put all of that somewhere for posterity, in a way that would be helpful for people, felt like a really important move.