Heal Yourself

In the eating disorder treatment that I created, at the foundation is full acceptance of the body and an understanding that the body is not the self. We have been taught, especially women, that we are equal to our bodies. We are how we look. We are how much we weigh. We are how old we are. All of these numbers. We are reduced to objectively measurable things. But we are not a thing. We are a being. And when we think of ourselves as how old we are, what our dress size is, etc., we are denying our true divine conscious beingness. And so, to recognize through the recovery of an eating disorder that we are not our bodies, that we are so much more, that really is the goal. And that is borne out in so many different ways. There are so many different techniques, but all of them are really in service of understanding that we are so much more than the sum of our parts.