YourTango: How do you think that eating disorders play into our relationships? They can obviously harm our relationships, but on the flip side, can our partnerships help us heal? Let me hold your hand and help you walk across the bridge." They're not just judging and saying "You need to do this." They've been through it, so they're saying "Let me help you. Sometimes in order to feel heard, you have to know that no one's talking down to you they're sitting there with you. I knew it was important for people to feel heard. So I was grappling with the writer hat and the psychotherapist hat. So putting myself out there was scary for me and uncomfortable, but as a writer you do the opposite: You have to be really vulnerable if you want to be a successful writer. You don't talk about your experience and you don't talk about yourself. and you can also." But as a therapist, you're a blank slate. I've helped a lot of people who got through this. I didn't want to - at all - but I felt like it was really necessary to put my experience out there and say, "I've been through this. What was it like to write about that? Did you feel it was necessary to connect with your readers? YourTango: You started this book by talking about your personal experience with binge eating. Click here to order the book, Reclaiming Yourself from Binge Eating.
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