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For Trauma Survivors: A Recovery Bill of Rights

by Joanna Poppink, M.F.T.

To my readers:

If you are living with an eating disorder, you are experiencing trauma. So I am including on my site for you "A Recovery Bill of Rights for Trauma Survivors" written by Thomas V. Maguire, Ph.D.

This may be eye-opening if you haven't considered yourself a trauma survivor. You are, you know. It's traumatic to binge, to starve, to purge, to suffer the agonies and embarrassment of laxative overuse, to obsess and agonize about body shape and weight, to feel guilt and shame in an ongoing and merciless way.

You experience trauma every day, and you are surviving. That makes you a trauma survivor. You have rights.

With care and respect,
Joanna

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