NEW REALITIES NEWS                            July 1999

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A Subscriber Writes

MY DAILY SELF WORTH AFFIRMATIONS.

I need only my own approval.

People may think anything of me they want
but it's my opinion of me that really counts.

I value myself, even if others do not.

People don't have to like me.

Even if others don't like me I am still a
worthwhile person.

It is unnecessary to impress others.

I don't need to boast to be worthy.

I am innately worthy.

I don't need to please anyone, except myself.

Thank you for writing.

Sharing our stories is an important part of recovery.

Book Review

Eating in the Light of the Moon
by Anita Johnston
Birch Lane Press, Secaucus, NJ 1996

Rarely do I pick a book off the shelf and decide
almost immediately that I have to have this book.
This one I had to have because it speaks of so
many things I believe to be true.

In the preface, Anita Johnston got my attention
when she wrote “As more and more girls and
women with eating disorders came to see me, I
found myself fascinated by them because,
contrary to what I had been led  to believe by my
colleagues and what much of the literature had
indicated, they were not terribly difficult, resistant
clients but some of the brightest, most talented,
most creative people I had ever met….I learned
that as very young girls, these women were bright
and gifted and had an exceptional ability
to perceive subtle realities. More often than not,
a woman who struggled with disordered eating
was once a girl who saw the invisible, who read
between the lines, who sensed when things
were not right. She noticed when people said
one thing but did another. She could discern
certain patterns of behavior and anticipate what
was to come next. She knew when someone
was being insincere or dishonest.”

Right in the preface, I was hooked. Like
Johnston, I have learned through people I have
worked with just how bright, intuitive and
creative they are.

Through metaphor and story-telling, the author
helps the reader understand how she has been
trying to take care of herself through her eating
disorder. The author takes the reader on a
journey that helps her understand how she
came to develop an eating disorder and what
the underlying issues are. She helps her learn
to listen to her body, her intuition and her dreams,
in order to understand what she really wants or
needs. She helps her develop new skills to take
care of herself in a healthy way.

Through really listening to herself, understanding
herself and taking care of herself, the reader can
develop a new relationship with food, her body
and herself.

The author writes in a caring, respectful and
insightful manner that invites the reader to
embark on her own journey.

Highly recommended.

Thought To Ponder

“Feelings are like fluid waves of energy. They
have a natural cyclical rhythm like the ebb and
flow of the tides, the waning and waxing of the
moon. The flow of feeling is as natural as the
flow of life itself.”

Anita Johnston

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