Triumphant Journey

Welcome! You are why I wrote Triumphant Journey: A Cyberguide To Stop Overeating and Recover from Eating Disorders. I’m glad you are here.

For over twenty years, I’ve been working in the field of eating disorders. Throughout this time, and probably forever, I keep learning from my clients, their friends and families and other important associates. I see who recovers from eating disorders and who is not yet ready or able to do the work that leads to eating disorders recovery.

In my opinion, the biggest blocks to recovery from anorexia, bulimia, and compulsive overeating are misinformation about eating disorders and an overconcern about what others think as opposed to a focus on how the eating disorder person thinks, feels and experiences the world. Before healing can begin, we have to focus on what’s relevant to healing. Often this involves defying old habits and entrenched unrealistic ideas about self-sacrifice. People with eating disorders usually discover that they do best if they give their own recovery the number one priority in their lives.

This is why I wrote Triumphant Journey. I thought about the many hundreds, perhaps thousands, of courageous eating disorder recovery stories I’ve heard over the years. I took what I thought were the key issues and essential methods of recovery and put them into these pages. I hope you find here something helpful for you.

If you notice that something important is missing from these pages please let me know. My work and learning in this field is ongoing. I invite you to write with questions, comments and stories from your own experiences that can help me enrich this site. By many of us sharing viewpoints and experiences we can help to help each other. I look forward to hearing from you.

Joanna Poppink, M.F.T.

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