{"id":99,"date":"2010-08-05T08:51:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T15:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bingeeatingtherapy.com\/?p=99"},"modified":"2024-02-15T00:58:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T08:58:28","slug":"the-grief-of-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bingeeatingtherapy.com\/the-grief-of-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grief Of Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Saying goodbye to an eating disorder isn’t easy– that’s an understatement. There is a giant grieving process that goes along with it. When you decide to let go of binge eating, you are letting go of something that you feel has been a best friend, a lover, an ally, always there when you need it, always consistent. Letting go of that is certainly challenging. There will be a big part of you that just doesn’t want to give that up. Food can be more reliable than people. It will always elicit a similar\u00a0 response, it’s always there, it’s always comforting. Of course, you know that these comforts are no more than temporary, and sometimes not even that. So, being ready to let go of binge eating and bulimia can be a humbling experience as you begin to delve into your recovery and understand more about who you are outside of this eating disorder.<\/p>\n

These changes won\u2019t just be challenging for you, they will be for anyone around you. There will be a mourning period when you let go of your old ways of being. As you go through the stages of grief you will find that the people around you are going through their own grieving process as they don\u2019t want to let go of the \u201cold\u201d you.<\/p>\n

For you, the grieving process might look like this:<\/p>\n