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Eating disorders often serve as an unconscious response to physical and/or sexual abuse in our present or past. Starving, binging, and other ritualistic eating disordered behaviors can symbolize limits we need in order to protect against further hurt or intrusion by others.
— Jul 02, 2018 01:48PM
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Julio Bonilla
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Life is not a destination but a journey of self-discovery.
— Jul 17, 2018 09:13PM
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I was scared of everything else. I thought all those bad feelings would be too much for me.
— Jul 16, 2018 10:15PM
Julio Bonilla
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Our experience gets richer if we move forward with a willingness to learn and change. Trying to freeze time or live in the past doesn’t work and brings no satisfaction.
— Jul 16, 2018 10:13PM
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This may be the first time you ever address some life issues head-on. It will not be easy, but these feelings will not last forever.
— Jul 14, 2018 10:29PM
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It is important to ask therapists what underlying philosophy or philosophies guide their work. These various models can be, and often are, integrated.
— Jul 14, 2018 04:05PM
Julio Bonilla
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Some women feel hopeless, convinced that they cannot get better because they have been sick for so long. Too afraid to hope, they feel sure that they will fail at recovery, and then feel even worse about themselves. Their hopelessness and ambivalence are self-protective.
— Jul 14, 2018 03:46PM
Julio Bonilla
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One of every forty women in the United States has risky gel-filled breast implants, even though the Food and Drug Administration banned their use for most women in 1992—and rejected an industry challenge to the ban in 2004.
— Jul 13, 2018 10:31PM
Julio Bonilla
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In today’s media and marketing culture, it is increasingly rare to find a woman’s body that bears much resemblance to the female body‘s natural shape.
— Jul 13, 2018 12:15PM
Julio Bonilla
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It's exciting to read ahead on a book from the library. It's due back tomorrow!
— Jul 10, 2018 10:07AM
