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We welcome you to our interactive, self-help site. If you or someone you care about has an eating disorder, such as compulsive overeating, morbid obesity, bulimia or anorexia, or if you are a professional treating people with eating disorders, our site offers a number of resources you may find helpful.

If you have an eating disorder, we commend you on your decision to explore the many available options for recovery. Living with an eating disorder is complex and can be scary for you and your family and friends. Deciding on the best options for you can be daunting. Our intent is to provide you a private, members-only, gentle, clearly understood site…a peaceful place that encourages your self-acceptance, self-care and discovery of self.

Whatever form or forms your disordered eating takes, Healthy Reflections offers tools to assist in your recovery. We have come to recognize all eating disorders (compulsive overeating, bulimia, anorexia, etc.) involve the same underlying issues, the same painful feelings, the same difficult challenges to address on our journey to wellness. 

Food is not the issue.

Interactive, self-help site

We believe recovery brings many gifts—the gift of self, a wonderful life, ongoing self-evolution, hope and found energy for a healthy life. These gifts come through commitment to self-exploration and hard work. They come from actively pursuing recovery instead of just reading about it. They come from unleashing your creativity and allowing it to flourish.

Healthy Reflections is an interactive self-help site; it will challenge you with journal options, readings, written reflections, scrapbooking, creative collages and more. Our site is a tool for gathering knowledge about yourself, which you can then share with your support group and/or therapist, or use in other ways on your recovery journey. (We do not collect or review homework assignments.)

Completing the assignments and challenges will make you more aware of your issues, behaviors, patterns, and thoughts. You will discover your own unique character and the paths which led you to an eating disorder. The ultimate challenge for each of us is to discern what we need to learn and accept from the path we've chosen and then journey onward to emotional, social, spiritual, physical and psychological well-being.

We charge a membership fee to cover our costs of monitoring the site to keep it as non-triggering and safe as possible, responding to member feedback, and maintaining and updating Healthy Reflections on an ongoing basis. Eating disorders are expensive, financially and in terms of time, relationships, and well-being. We invite you to invest in your recovery by joining Healthy Reflections. Visit our Membership Benefits page to learn about membership benefits and costs. 

Please understand Healthy Reflections is designed to support, not replace, face-to-face medical and mental health treatment. For your own safety and well-being, please consult your medical care provider before joining and during your membership in the Healthy Reflections community. 

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
Lao-Tzu

 

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Your Facilitators

Kim Brown and Elizabeth Allen are both counseling professionals and both are recovering from eating disorders. We are ordinary people; we've learned to embrace ordinariness. It took a while, but we had some fun along the way, mixed, of course, with feelings of fear, anger, inadequacy, joyful moments of discovering ourselves and learning to like and respect ourselves as individuals. We both sincerely wish the same for each and every one of you.

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Suggested Uses

Prelude to therapy: Entering therapy can be scary; sometimes we don't know where to begin.

Adjunct to therapy: There are 168 hours in a week. Sometimes we think of “recovery” work happening during therapy sessions. It does. Our site provides options and opportunities for additional work and discovery in between therapy sessions. We hope these additional options will empower your recovery. You know yourself better than anyone else ever will. As you complete Healthy Reflections assignments, take them to your sessions to discuss with your therapist.

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Voices of Hope

As therapists, we consider it a privilege to work with clients and we are often awed by their courage and honesty. Truly, they are our best teachers. Through the Voices of Hope video clips, you will hear from people of all ages and from all walks of life who are recovering from eating disorders. As part of their own healing journey, they volunteered to share their stories with you.

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Disclaimer:

The content of this and all other sections of the Healthy Reflections web site, as well as the content of all email correspondence (such as assignments and weekly challenges) to Healthy Reflections members, is designed to support, not replace, one-on-one therapy with a trained professional and the relationship that exists between you and your health/mental health professional. This information is solely for informational and educational purposes. We cannot diagnose or treat any medical or mental health condition, or provide additional assistance by e-mail. As with all health-related issues, please refer to your personal physician, dietician, counselor or therapist for a full evaluation and to determine the best course of treatment. Information provided on the site or in emails to members does not constitute the provision or practice of medical, nursing or professional health care advice or services. Neither the owners or employees of the Healthy Reflections web site nor the authors of site content take responsibility for any possible consequences from any treatment, procedure, exercise, dietary modification, action or application of medication which results from reading this site or the Healthy Reflections emails (such as assignments and weekly challenges) sent to members. Healthy Reflections specifically disclaims liability, loss, or risk, personal or otherwise, that may be incurred as a consequence, directly or indirectly, in the use or application of any contents of this web site. Always speak with your primary health care provider before engaging in any form of self-treatment. 

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