EXCERPTS FROM MY MEMOIR MISUNDERSTOOD

Level of Care Considerations for Severe and Extreme Eating Disorder Cases Review

https://eatingdisordersreview.com/level-of-care-considerations-for-severe-and-extreme-eating-disorders/

THE MENTAL HEALTH PARITY ADDICTION EQUITY ACT...TREATMENT CENTERS...INSURANCE APPEALS

Only 1 in 10 people receive treatment for eating disorders. But, only 1/2 receive proper treatment.

8% of US the  population suffer from an eating disorder.

50% of individuals with eating disorders abuse alcohol or illicit drugs compared to 9% of the general public.

Approximately 41% of drug abusers have an eating disorder.

The Mental Health Parity Addiction Equity Act

>>> https://www.cms.gov/cciio/programs-and-initiatives/other-insurance-protections/mhpaea_factsheet.html

The Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA) is a federal law that generally prevents group health plans and health insurance issuers that provide mental health or substance use disorder (MH/SUD) benefits from imposing less favorable benefit limitations on those benefits than on medical/surgical benefits. MHPAEA originally applied to group health plans and group health insurance coverage and was amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (collectively referred to as the “Affordable Care Act”) to also apply to individual health insurance coverage.




Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services

>>>> https://www.cms.gov/CCIIO/Programs-and-Initiatives/Other-Insurance-Protections/mhpaea_factsheet.html

The Center for Consumer Information & Insurance Oversight

>>>> https://www.cms.gov/cciio/

Mirror Mirror Insurance and Eating Disorders...How do you get coverage?

>>>http://www.mirror-mirror.org/insurance.htm

Treatment Centers 

https://www.eatingdisorderhope.com/treatment-centers

Medicaid Treatment Centers

https://www.eatingrecoverycenter.com/ERC/media/global/Misc/Gov-Ins-Scholarship-and-free-treatment-Options.pdf

#WISDOM WEDNESDAY

#wednesdaywisdom 

As an author to a MEMOIR/SELF HELP book, my mission and on all my social media platforms is to inspire individuals to find hope in helpless situations. After writing for well over twenty years the knowledge I've gained through watching my family suffer with addiction and eating disorders has allowed me to share my story from a unique perspective. The wisdom I've gained was granted through my faith, compassion and willingness to never give up on helping those in need. As we all go through life, it is human nature to long for a purpose. Today I challenge you to dive deeper into your personal lives and take the knowledge you've gained and combine that with the wisdom you've been so fortunate enough to experience and take a moment to smile at a stranger. See how that makes you feel. You never know what might be going on in their life. With that being said...I want to share this story with you. The wisdom of this beautiful little girl will blow your mind. Today is a new day! Keep Smiling! https://youtu.be/AvyaM4CIagc

 #selfhelp #keepsmiling #blog #actress #producer #writer

You can also google me to follow my blog as well: Sherry Hudak

A GUIDE FOR UNDERSTANDING AND HELPING SOMEONE WHO IS SUFFERING FROM FROM AN EATING DISORDER

Just tell her to stop shares the wisdom of 40 families who experienced what it was like to go through living with their loved one struggling with an eating disorder. Every story is humbling and inspiring. The author Becky Henry’s daughter suffered from an eating disorder. Through research, hands-on experience and tanacity helped Becky out of the dark forest of eating disorder heartbreak. Becky is the founder of Hope Network, she now speaks to health care providers, leads classes and guides other families out of the dark forest into light, joy and hope.

Revovery from an eating disorder is a marathon not a sprint. Once families and loved ones come to this realization those who suffer will become more open to engaging with those who love them. 

POEM BRUISES FROM MY MEMOIR

CO-PRODUCING FILM WORTHY

We need your support! As we finalize our paperwork in pre-production for our film Worthy we need your donations. 

Do you know someone struggling with addiction, depression or attempted suicide? Statistics show we all do...make a donation today so our film can show the christian genre what’s been missing for years! 

Worthy exposes satan’s lies...there will be NO sugar coating in our film. The reality is there is hope...and we believe through our film many lives will be saved!  #film

Check us out on Facebook at WORTHY THE MOVIE!

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Come join us on our journey as we make an amazing film that will impact all families around the world. Worthy is not your typical christian film. Worthy exposes Satan’s lies regarding depression, addiction suicide and the like. 

Worthy is a film you’ve all been waiting to see. 

To understand more about our film watch the video’s on our facebook page.  You can follow us on facebook at

Worthy The Movie as well. 

We need your support in pre-production before we move into the next phase of pitching our investors.

May 2019 be a year of healing and growth spiritually for each and everyone one of you!

Keep smiling:))) #facebook #film #donations #video

A poem from my memoir...MISUNDERSTOOD COMING OUT 2019!!!

For those who have followed me...thank you for your support!!!I will be working with my editor and agent to publish my memoir later this year. Below is a poem from my book. I will be posting bits and pieces from my book over the next few months. Happy New Year!!!

DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY EMBODIMENT

Developmental Theory Embodiment

What are your physical and emotional strengths? It is our job as parents to help our children to embody a sense of emotional and physical strength. Far too often we focus too much on how we look on the outside and forget about how to teach our children to focus on being the best version of who they are capable of being emotionally and physically. How we look is simply a small component of who we are. Developing Embodiment fits extraordinarily well with the most current and valuable research about the importance of being active and physically engaged in our bodies as it relates to how we experience ourselves. This is called the “Developmental Theory of Embodiment,” and was created by Dr. Niva Piran a Clinical Psychologist who has given her life to researching the prevention of eating disorders, body image and how individuals can come to love to be fully engaged in who they are in their bodies. This helps us get further in touch with our bodies and prevent eating disorders. As women we don’t have to just hate or love how our body looks, but we can also enjoy being in it.

In this theory Piran lays out the importance of three concepts that influence a girls or women’s ability to be embodied. Mental freedom, social power and the third is the experience of physical power are important in preventing the on set of an eating disorder. This just like our thoughts and social and relational context, is just as important for us to have healthy relationships with our bodies as our thoughts.

Physical freedom includes being comfortable with our physical desires, appetites and changes that comes with age. This means we don’t beat ourselves up for feeling hungry, or how our skin looks or changes with age, but embrace them as part of the story of our self and body in the world.

Imagine the gift you would be giving to yourself and future generations if you better understood how important it was to recognize the value in the Developmental Theory. How might someone you know struggling with an eating disorder change the direction of their recovery by better understanding mental, social and physical freedom of which should have been taught prior to puberty.

I can tell you as someone who came from a family of a century of eating disorders, my life would look very different.

While doing some last-minute research for my book, I came a crossed a disheartening statistic that made me sit back for a few moments. While I struggled for a few decades… so did my family and friends. 

I read that 8.4 million caregivers support people with mental illness spending 32 hours a week providing care for their loved ones. I was reminded of the difficult journey so many of us have been on who have struggled with eating disorders, addiction and other mental illness. 

This inspires me every day to continue to educate myself and others to seek new ways to be inspired. And yes…I was once again inspired by an amazing woman her name is Becky Henry who wrote an amazing book called Just Tell Her To Stop. As I began reading Becky’s book, I thought to myself…why did it take so long for a book like this to be written? 

If only I had a book like Just Tell Her To Stop maybe I wouldn’t have struggled for 30 years. In Becky’s book she shares stories of families and how eating disorders affected their lives. The gift in sharing their stories I believe without a doubt will give  families hope to navigate what often feels like a dead-end fight in helping their loved ones overcome their personal struggles.  May you find peace in your ability to educate yourself, remain strong in unity with your family and persevere on your personal journey! Keep smiling!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_cognition

 Praying for each and every person struggling with an eating disorder! Giving thanks...Keep smiling:)

Every day is a new opportunity to look at recovery with a fresh set of eyes. Never give up hope, faith and belief that all things are possible!!!

Jay Rossi Interview:  Memoir Misunderstood, Acting Career & Inspiring others to never give up hope on your dreams!

http://youtu.be/o9FyblUBksc

Happiness (hap-pi-ness):

1.     the quality or state of being happy.

2.     good fortune; pleasure; contentment; joy, synonyms pleasure, joy, exhilaration, bliss, contentedness, delight, enjoyment, satisfaction

Biblical Citation:

       2 Kings 20:5 “ I have heard your prayers and seen your tears. I will heal you.

2 Corinthians 12:10. “When I’m weak I am strong; the less I have the more I depend on him. “

Positive Affirmation:

In p.m., pray and ask for answers/in a.m., sit quietly and listen for the answers.

One day at a time.

This too shall pass.

Easy does it.

Research links:

Chronic and long term affects in adults with eating disorders.

https://www.eatingdisorderhope.com/blog/chronic-and-long-term-effects-of-eating-disorders-in-adulthood

Reel stories Real People is excited about our educational film about eating disorders called Empty. We need your support and donations. Please read more about our project, share like and donate on the link below.

www.ReelStoriesRealPeople.org

Kaitlyn Chana (321)-277-2279

 info@reelstoriesrealpeople.org

Sherry Hudak (216)-577-0048

sherry.hudak@yahoo.com

As an actress, ambassador and producer of our educational film Empty, it is my goal to inspire our audience to better understand the process of how eating disorders can affect individuals, their families and friends. I have a perspective that is unique because our family has struggled with eating disorders for almost a century. I wish I could say I am fully recovered. However, because of a recent health diagnosis I am currently fighting to remain strong and avoid a full relapse.

What I can say is without hesitation, I know exactly what my triggers are and have learned to co-exist in an environment while some triggers simply can’t be avoided. I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that has forced me to look at life differently. With a fresh set of eyes and willingness to protect my 11-year-old daughter from living a life of isolation trapped behind the mask of anorexia and bulimia, I began reading a book called Mothers, Daughters & Body Image (Learning to Love Ourselves As WE Are) By Hillary L. McBride. Hillary shares stories about mothers and daughters and their relationship with their bodies. Hillary provides unique insights into how our relationships with our bodies are shaped by what we see around us and the specific things we can do to have healthier relationships with our appearance, and all the other parts of ourselves that make us women. I recommend this book to any family who has a family member with an eating disorder.

Hillary did some digging around to support the idea that media has a massive influence on how we feel about ourselves, particularly making us feel worse about ourselves. In 2012, Fernandez and Pritchard published and article, “Relationships between self-esteem, media influence and drive for thinness.” All this really means is that there is a direct correlation between how we feel about ourselves as women, our desire to be thinner, and the media we consume as women. Information was collected from 294 universities of both men and women. They found they had a stronger desire to be thin and had lower self-esteem based on the media’s expectation of what thin looks like. The bottom line is it is a vicious cycle of feeling frustrated until we are trapped behind the mask of a full-blown eating disorder. What we do as women our children will likely mirror.

Every day is a new opportunity to learn self-compassion. And for the future of our family and our children’s children there is no better time then to start educating yourself now on the how your family member developed an eating disorder to begin with…it is only then we can seek to find those answers by reaching out to the right people. It is then the healing will begin. Also, something important to keep in mind…one of the single most important things I have learned is forgiveness. Recovery is a process. Sometimes this process can take longer then we desire…be patient and keep your heart open! Have faith! Keep smiling!

                                                        

Recovery is about the effort...the willingness and committment to become whole.

WHAT DOES RECOVERY LOOK LIKE?

Recovery is a unique process for each and everyone one of us. My name is Sherry Hudak-Weinhardt. I've been on the journey towards recovery for well over thirty years. Recovery looks very different for me today then it did just one year ago. As life changes we learn how to juggle our individual stress with the hope of just teetering on the brink of hospitalization. As I continue to write about my story on my blog, memoir and Facebook page Reel Stories Real People, my hope is others will see Eating Disorders are a debilitating illness that does nothing more then strip you of your time, friends, family, health, career and future.  

I have found it of great value to read materials that are positive, educational and inspirational throughout my recovery. I've read well over two-hundred books on the topic. Every day I find something new and different that inspires me. That inspiration can come in many forms. I'm inspired by those who have been defeated yet don't give up. Those who are persistent and reap the reward for their success is inspiring to me. Doing something for others, smiling at a stranger or helping someone out of pure kindness are all healing to ones soul. I'm active with mentoring teenagers who struggle with eating disorders and addiction. Every year I provide useful tools to our local schools, gyms and churches to educate families on how to bridge the gap between how an eating disorder begins, as well as  what we can do as a community to help those struggling with an eating disorder find a more successful path towards recovery. 

As an ambassador, actress and producer of our film "EMPTY", our objective is to offer our educational film to schools a crossed the United States. I understand the value in talking about these secrets we try to hide out of self preservation. However, as someone who has a history of nearly a century of eating disorders in my family, there is no better time then the present to start at the higher educational level.  
Recovery is a process! Never give up! KEEP SMILING!   
                                                                      

This weeks positive affirmation: 

"I have the world in my palm and a choice of what I want to do with it."

This weeks biblical citation: 

Ezekiel 36:26. “I will give you a new heart and put a new smile in you.”

Research links:

***EATING DISORDERS & THE BRAIN

https://www.sciencedaily.com/news/mind_brain/eating_disorders/

***SUBSTANCE ABUSE & EATING DISORDERS NEDA

https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/substance-abuse-and-eating-disorders

EXCITING NEW PROJECTS:

Reel Stories Real People is excited about our educational film about eating disorders called Empty! We need your support. Please read more about our project, share, like and donate on Facebook. 

www.ReelStoriesRealPeople.org  

321-277-2279

info@reelstoriesrealpeople.org

FILM COMING SOON "EMPTY"

What are your children doing in the privacy of your own home? What does Cyber bullying really look like? Cyber bullying is like name calling in the 1980's on steroids! As a mother of an 11 year old daughter, I know first hand how remarks from peers can have a detrimental impact on today's youth.

My main objective in sharing my memoir  Misunderstood is to raise awareness about the many components that feed into an eating disorder. Every case is different, however the biological, social and psychological components continue to plague 30 million men and women of all backgrounds here in the U.S. alone. As a third generation eating disorder survivor parents continue to turn a blind eye.

Ask, my dear friend and news reporter Catherine Bosley how she was cyber bullied. You can visit her website to schedule an appointment. www.CatherineBosley.com

So, what can we do to educate today's youth on self esteem, body image and eating disorders?  Where do eating disorders come from? All the questions parents often ask their primary care physician are often unanswered. Well...

I am excited to announce a new education film I've been working on about eating disorders called "EMPTY." Reel Stories Real People is a non-profit 501(c) (3) Charitable Nonprofit Organization and we need your donations to make our film a reality!  Our team will be raising funds throughout 2018. We need your support!!! We will be filming in Cleveland, Ohio.

Ultimately we would like to offer all higher education schools a free video and teaching manual as part of students common core curriculum.

Please share my blog: http://www.sherhudy.blogspot.com

Please share and donate on our website:

 www.ReelStoriesRealPeople.org

Make it a good day!
Keep Smiling!

IF YOU GET STUCK ON THE LITTLE THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT EVER WORK ON THE BIG THINGS

If you focus your attention on the positive, you can find the power to do things that matter. Gratitude is an action word: I have to "act" on it! If I am focusing on the positive, I am going to get more gratitude, more power, and more joy.

It takes time to decipher what we really need to fully recover. What works for others may or may not work for you. Be patient! Keep things simple and keep moving. Respect yourself and your efforts to find recovery. Keep taking small risks, building trust with yourself, and focusing on the bigger picture, you will walk free if you work at it.

Here are some ideas that might help you find balance and perspective to maintain recovery.

• Do first things first. (Take care of basics and prioritize by what matters in the long run.)

• Do one thing at a time. (A day at a time is often too much in recovery. Think "one moment, one step, one choice and one decision at a time, so you don't feel so overwhelmed.)

• Be true to yourself, be honest, and be kind. (Integrity builds recovery.)

• Be at peace. (Recovery is not a box that you fit your life into: it is open and free. That doesn't mean everything is grand in your life, it means you can live in peace no matter what. Get past the idea that things are happening "to you" or because of you-they are just happening.)

• Forget about counting days and years of recovery. (Recovery is not about days, or months, or years. You can have years of recovery and still be rigid and stuck. Recovery is an inside job: you know you are there when you are at peace with food and in balance in other areas of your life.)

• Do what is in front of you and keep it simple. (Remember we have to take care of basics before we can do much else: if hungry, eat; if angry, find a safe outlet; if lonely, reach out; if tired, sleep; if ashamed, talk about it.)

• Lighten up-don't take life so seriously. (In our eating disorders we spend so much time afraid and alone-lost in ourselves-that we lost the joy in life. Recovery means finding humor. Laughing at myself reduces shame and puts things back in perspective. It's not all about me, which is easier to see when I laugh and find joy. Everybody has insecurities. We get so busy looking at ourselves and our deficiencies we forget how good it feels to share our experience of life.)

• Do the work. (In the "doing" comes the understanding and the recover: we have to do the work. We take the steps to change the way we think. When we change the way we think, we get options to change what we do. When we take the right actions, we start getting the right results. Not feeling "up to it" today? Ask yourself what you would do if you felt better-and then do it.

• Focus on the positive, and seek balance in everything. (Balance to me means asking. Where am I focusing my energy? Then, I work on putting my energy where it matters. For instance, at work recently, I was using up way too much energy on the negative by arguing with people. It was draining! I had to remember that whatever I give out is what I get back. So I changed my attitude and perspective, which changed the dynamic completely - and I got my peace back.

• Keep taking stock of where you are and respond accordingly. (I sometimes forget to take care of the simple things. I have to recognize that when my food and sleep get sideways, I have to change what I am thinking and doing to make sure I take care of myself so I can focus on the positive: going to church, going to meetings, talking with my partner and support people, and just doing what's in front of me.

• Stay accountable for your thoughts and actions. (Once I got to a point where I did not want my disease to keep me stuck where I did not want my disease to keep me stuck any longer,  started keeping myself accountable for my eating disorder and support people. Anne and I used to call this "telling on ourselves," which can sound like self-shaming, but we laughed a lot. It is amazing how silly our responses to life can be. I mean there is humor in admitting that, somebody didn't respond like I thought they should when I said something completely stupid, so now I want to shove food in my face. That will totally make it all better! Come on, people: lighten up! We are only as sick as our secrets!

• Find gratitude for what you have. (Gratitude is what makes it possible for me to do the things I need to do with love and compassion. I used to pray for the willingness to be willing. Now that comes easily because I experience the promises; I experience joy every day. It's the simple things.)

• Get into service: it is an important aspect of balance! (When I am too absorbed with myself now, I usually catch myself and laugh. Sometimes it is easy to forget that there is a whole other existence out there! When it's all about me, life can get awfully miserable. When it's all about how I can do to help others, it's amazing. When I found recovery, I also found empathy. My eyes opened up. Now I can see where people are hurting, and usually there is something right in front of me that I can do to help.)

For anorexia nervosa, researchers implicate genetic locus on chromosome 12: Powerful genomic study of anorexia nervosa conducted to date to identify the common roots anorexia shares with psychiatric, metabolic traits

Summary:

A landmark study has identified the first genetic locus for anorexia nervosa and has revealed that there may also be metabolic underpinnings to this potentially deadly illness.

A landmark study led by UNC School of Medicine researchers has identified the first genetic locus for anorexia nervosa and has revealed that there may also be metabolic underpinnings to this potentially deadly illness.

The study, which is the most powerful genetic study of anorexia nervosa conducted to date, included genome-wide analysis of DNA from 3,495 individuals with anorexia nervosa and 10,982 unaffected individuals.

If particular genetic variations are significantly more frequent in people with a disorder compared to unaffected people, the variations are said to be "associated" with the disorder. Associated genetic variations can serve as powerful pointers to regions of the human genome where disorder-causing problems reside, according to the National Human Genome Research Institute.

"We identified one genome-wide significant locus for anorexia nervosa on chromosome 12, in a region previously shown to be associated with type 1 diabetes and autoimmune disorders," said lead investigator, Cynthia Bulik, PhD, FAED, founding director of the UNC Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders and a professor at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.

"We also calculated genetic correlations -- the extent to which various traits and disorders are caused by the same genes," said Bulik.

"Anorexia nervosa was significantly genetically correlated with neuroticism and schizophrenia, supporting the idea that anorexia is indeed a psychiatric illness."

"But, unexpectedly, we also found strong genetic correlations with various metabolic features including body composition (BMI) and insulin-glucose metabolism. This finding encourages us to look more deeply at how metabolic factors increase the risk for anorexia nervosa," Bulik said.

This study was conducted by the Psychiatric Genetics Consortium Eating Disorders Working Group -- an international collaboration of researchers at multiple institutions worldwide.

"In the era of team science, we brought over 220 scientists and clinicians together to achieve this large sample size. Without this collaboration we would never have been able to discover that anorexia has both psychiatric and metabolic roots," said Gerome Breen, PhD, of King's College London.

"Working with large data sets allows us to make discoveries that would never be possible in smaller studies," said Laramie Duncan, PhD, of Stanford University, who served as lead analyst on the project.

The researchers are continuing to increase sample sizes and see this as the beginning of genomic discovery in anorexia nervosa. Viewing anorexia nervosa as both a psychiatric and metabolic condition could ignite interest in developing or repurposing medications for its treatment where currently none exist.

May 12, 2017

Source: University of North Carolina Health Care

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Journal Reference:

1. Cynthia M. Bulik et al. Significant Locus and Metabolic Genetic Correlations Revealed in Genome-Wide Association Study of Anorexia Nervosa. American Journal of Psychiatry, 2017; appi.ajp.2017.1 DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2017.16121402

ASSESSING SEVERITY OF EATING DISORDERS

All forms of eating disorders are dangerous. Electrolyte imbalances caused by over-exercise and other forms of purging can lead to heart failure. Health effects associated with binge eating obesity, sleep apnea, and diabetes. Anorexia is associated with the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. Regardless of type, eating disorders exist along a spectrum of severity, which, for brevity's sake, we will divide into three categories:

INCONSISTENT (irregular or intermittent):

People with inconsistent symptoms of an eating disorder may occasionally became obsessed with weight or body image, and sometimes engage in one or more behaviors that are hallmarks of a classic eating disorder: restriction of intake, bingeing, use of laxatives, enemas, exercise, or other forms of purging. Such people may or may not develop a full-blown eating disorder or be aware that their behavior is dangerous. People with occasional symptoms are usually able to maintain something that looks like a normal life and may be relatively unconcerned about changing.

CONSISTENT (regular and persistent):

People who routinely engage in eating- disordered thoughts and behaviors may be very ill, but may respond favorably to one or more treatment options such as nutritional counseling, individual therapy, intensive outpatient therapy, or inpatient treatment.

RESISTANT (obsessive and intractable):

People who become obsessed in their engagement with eating-disordered thoughts and behaviors often report feeling hopeless about their condition; many get to a point where a normal life seems impossible. Most have tried one or more forms of treatment, yet despite progress toward recovery, patterns of negative thinking (thoughts that lead to anger, resentment, fear, self-piety, shame, guilt, confusion, frustration and despair) seem impossible to escape. When such thoughts occur, people with more severe eating disorders revert to restricting, binging, and/or purging no matter how dire the consequences. People thus situated have lost faith in the idea they can walk away from their eating disorders; they have fundamentally lost trust in themselves.

8 Topics to Explore

What has been causing our emotional disturbance? We must use our new frame of reference to define a sane response or resolution to life's inevitable challenges.

8 Topics to Explore

1. Resentment:

people and institutions with which we have an old anger that was never fully resolved

2. Fear:

things that frightened or still frighten us

3. Self-pity:

reasons we felt or feel sorry for ourselves

4. Shame:

things about which we felt or feel ashamed, despite not being responsible for them

5. Guilt or "harms done":

wrongs we had done or are doing to others

6. Confusion:

situations where we felt or still feel abandoned or bewildered

7. Frustration:

things that made or make us angry, even if we have no resentment in connection to them

8. Despair:

reasons for hopelessness, past and present 

The 12 Steps of Eating Disorders Anonymous

1. We admitted we were powerless over our eating disorders-that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a POWER greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of GOD as we understand god.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to GOD, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have GOD remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked GOD to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with GOD as we understood GOD,  praying only for knowledge of GOD'S will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others with eating disorders, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.💓💓💓💓💓💓💓😇

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT EATING DISORDER ANONYMOUS PLEASE VISIT

http://www.eatingdisordersanonymous.org/